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New York City USA 1929 stock footage and images

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A crowd gathers outside the NYSE at Wall Street after an announcement of support from leaders of finance in New York, U.S.

Announcement of support from leaders of finance stops wild trading and market panic at Wall Street in New York City after 13 million shares change hands in one day on the stock market. A large crowd seen gathered outside the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), around time of Wall Street Crash of 1929.

Date: 1929, October 26
Duration: 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076849
Major changes in lifestyle of the people in United States in the 1920s leading to economic prosperity.

Brief view of Mussolini in Italy wearing a top hat. Clip proceeds on theme of lifestyle of people in United States in the 1920s, also referred to as the "Roaring 20s". Pedestrians and various people on busy streets of New York City as cars and truck move past them. A woman gets her make up done in a makeup studio. A woman in flapper fashions smokes a cigarette. View of a line of women's legs all wearing silk stockings and shorter skirts than in prior times. Women in swimming suits at a beauty pageant. Federal agents smash liquor bottles and break up wooden barrels draining liquor to enforce prohibition. Gangsters killed in an encounter in the street. Gangsters, possibly mafia, being arrested and led away by police at gun point. Men and women perform Charleston dance. A bartender is seen mixing a drink. Men and women enjoy ballroom dancing at a night club. Closeup of a street sign for Wall Street. Brief view of crowds outside New York Stock Exchange building around time of stock market crash of 1929.

Date: 1929
Duration: 2 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042216
Montage of scenes showing unbridled materialism of "Roaring 20's." Expensive cars; spending sprees; currency notes, coins

Symbolic montage of scenes showing unrestrained materialism, wealth, and spending in the U.S. during the "Roaring 20's," before the 1929 Crash of the New York Stock Market. Rolls Royce cars move on the streets in New York City. Ford cars on the road. A chauffeured Rolls Royce limousine on the road and being parked. Symbols of money: currency notes and jewelery. Currency notes and coins stacked up. Views of Cash Registers from National Cash Register displaying dollars and cents. Coins being dropped into a National Cash Register machine.

Date: 1928
Duration: 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065251
The good times of the 1920's turn into the difficult times of the depression in 1930s America

Documentary depicts the end of the 1920s good times in the U.S. ("Roaring 20s"), leading into the Great Depression. Mildred Unger, age 10, performs a wing walker charleston dance while out on the wing of a JN-4 "Jenny" airplane in flight over Los Angeles in 1926.Four girls dancing on the top of a building higher than those around it, in Boston, Massachusetts. Amusement park patrons riding a roller coaster. People out driving through a park in their automobiles. Patrons enjoying themselves at the Steeplechase amusement park in Coney Island, New York. A crane piling old cars in a heap at a junk yard. But following the Wall Street crash (stock market crash) of 1929, conditions change in America. Group of men, women, and children standing together, looking sad and dejected, poor and desperate, due to conditions of the Great Depression affecting families. Still photo of group of people receiving food assistance in a city. A man, woman, and baby, in a tent (probably migrant workers). The famous 1936 photo, "Migrant Mother" by Dorothea Lange, of migrant worker, Florence Owens Thompson, with two of her children in California. Men receiving food from a city soup kitchen. Dejected unemployed men.

Date: 1937
Duration: 1 min 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036811
Traffic stranded by the Great Blizzard of 1947 in New York City

The Great Blizzard of 1947 hits New York City in the United States. Program host Dennis James introduces. A snow-covered bus drives through 1947 blizzard in New York City. Snow covers the William Tecumseh Sherman Memorial at Grand Army Plaza in New York City. A taxi cab turns a corner through heavy snow. Pedestrians struggling through blizzard as they walk. Sedan slipping and hitting curb. Heavy snow falling through spot light. Aerial view of New York City skyline after blizzard, including Central Park, and St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Parked cars on the street covered in 26 inches of heavy snow after snowstorm. Parked city buses blocking street in New York City after snowfall. Heavy snow covers ships in New York Harbor and railway tracks. Stranded passengers drink hot beverages inside a subway train car. Snow removal in New York City by snowplows after the blizzard. New York City. Times Square covered under heavy snow, with only a few people. Men shoveling snow from their cars. Park Ave. at E. 77 street sign. Dennis James wraps up the program by advertising the United States Marine Corps.

Date: 1947, December 25
Duration: 3 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078923
Scenes of New York City buildings and of the New York World's Fair in 1940

From the Ford Motor Company produced film, "Scenes From the World of Tomorrow" documenting the 1939-1940 World's Fair in New York City. View of buildings of the New York World's Fair of 1940. The Brooklyn Bridge. Aerial view of Manhattan Island, New York City. Skyscrapers of New York City including the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building. New York Harbor and ships in the harbor. View of the buildings of the New York Worlds Fair in the distance in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, as seen from high in a skyscraper of New York City. The Fair's Trylon and Perisphere stand out. People walk along the sides of fountains and waterways at the fair. Crowds milling about, bands marching, dancers performing. Flags of many nations flying on the flag poles. Celebration of the 150th anniversary of George Washington, as the first President of the United States and a statue of George Washington. A bus moves on the street. Fountains and a small bridge near a waterway. Pavilions of nations of England, Japan, and Italy. The USA building and some of the buildings of U.S. States including Maine and Florida. Fountains and waterways of the fair. Woman and two girls eat ice cream cones. A Raymond Loewy - designed S1 experimental streamlined locomotive created for the Pennsylvania Railroad. Pavilions of American Telephone & Telegraph and of United States Steel Corporation, also of Westinghouse, Goodrich, Chrysler, and General Motors.

Date: 1940
Duration: 4 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028517