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New York Airways launches helicopter flights in Manhattan, New York

New York Airways inaugurate a new helicopter air service in New York City shuttling between New York City airports and the heart of Metropolitan New York. Men stand in front of the helicopter before boarding. Passengers boarding the helicopter flight. A New York Airways helicopter taking off from the West 30th Street Heliport in West Manhattan, New York City.

Date: 1958, May 29
Duration: 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029302
Huge Model of battleship is focus of Victory Loan Drive in Manhattan, New York City

A 250 foot model of a battleship is center of attention for Navy recruitment and Victory loan Drive, in Union Square, New york City. Women Navy Yeomen (F) of the U.S. Navy Reserve, line the decks of the "ship." People are walking around the ship during the entire time. The women yeomen wave to the crowd. A large sign above reads: "Men wanted for U.S. Navy, apply here." Sign on the stern reads: "Speed the Navy's Victory Loan Ship to victory..." and advertises a Victory Loan Show, to be held April 21, 1919. On the ship's top deck, a yeoman(F) types at a telegraph machine,as another turns a cros-shaped signal. Several yeomen (F) pose on the deck, nearby. View from the ground of Photographers on the stern deck taking pictures of the assembled women yeoman. Scene shifts to aboard the ship, where the Yeomen (F) stand in formation in a double row around the foredeck. Facimile guns are seen. The yeomen salute two Naval officers, in unison. Panning closeup of the yeomen and the ship's guns. The yeomen adjust their formation with eyes right. They execute close order motions at the direction of a Naval officer. Another officer carries a Yeoman recruiting poster to the foredeck. The yeomen continue their maneuvers and then are dismissed from formation. Several are given brooms and put on a show of sweeping the foredeck. Sailors are packed into a smaller boat nearby with a sign reading: "Buy Liberty Bonds at this Battleship."

Date: 1919, April
Duration: 3 min 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675048788
Flat Iron Building and New York skyline on Manhattan Island, New York City

View of Flatiron Building (175 5th Ave, New York, NY 10010) on New York skyline and busy streets below. A couple on terrace of a building as seen from another tall building. Unlit flood lights at the corner.

Date: 1919
Duration: 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675025401
A man and a woman talk in the light of a kerosene lamp in the United States. Also shows the 1893 DeWitt Clinton replica locomotive and train in operation.

The world struggle for oil is depicted. Use of components of oil in homes and in railroads in the United States is shown. A dramatization shows the effect of a kerosene lamp on social life. A woman seated in a chair near a table in a room. A kerosene lamp in a corner. A man opens the door of the room and walks in. The woman gets up and welcomes the man. They both walk to a seat and sit down. Another woman enters the room. The man stands to greet her. She increases the light of the lamp and then leaves the room. The man decreases the light of the lamp. The man and the woman talk. The 1893 replica of the 1831 DeWitt Clinton steam locomotive is shown in operation with its three carriage train, in New York City. The DeWitt Clinton was the first railroad locomotive to operate on the Mohawk & Hudson Railroad in New York. The reproduction seen here was built in 1893 by the New York Central Railroad for the Columbian Exposition in Chicago. This footage was shot on July 17, 1921 when the DeWitt Clinton train was preparing for a trip to another exposition in Chicago. On this day it ran several times from 96th to 116th streets in New York City. New York Central employees are seen on the drain, dressed as passengers would have been in 1831. This replica was later displayed at Grand Central Terminal in New York City, and is is now on display at The Henry Ford museum in Dearborn Michigan. It was acquired by Henry Ford in 1934, in an agreement with the New York Central that it would continue to travel to events on occasion.

Date: 1921, July 17
Duration: 2 min 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050526
New York City Hall, City Hall Park, and New York Stock Exchange in Manhattan, New York

New York City Hall (City Hall Park, New York, NY 10007, United States) in Lower Manhattan, between Broadway, Park Row, and Chambers Street. View across City Hall Park to the City Hall. The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE, 11 Wall St, New York, NY 10005, United States) building with a flag flying on top is shown. The New York high rise buildings. 1942.

Date: 1942
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675035776
British anti aircraft men honored in a parade and ceremony at New York City Hall (WW2)

British anti-aircraft men march in parade as people give them a warm welcome to New York City during World War II. Soldiers on foot march to the hall. A ceremony to honor the anti-aircraft men outside the New York City Hall. New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia speaks at the ceremony in New York City Hall (City Hall Park, New York, NY 10007, United States).

Date: 1943
Duration: 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058428