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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
Creation of Sculpture by African American artist Richmond Barthe in U.S.

Artist Richmond Barthe working on a sculpture in New York City, circa 1937, during the Harlem Renaissance. The sculpture is still in its designing phase. Barthe is seen adding material to the sculpture.

Date: 1937
Duration: 2 min 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675032304
New York Yankees defeat the New York Giants 8-1 in game one of 1937 Baseball World Series.

Film with highlights from game one of baseball's 1937 World Series between the New York Yankees and New York Giants. Shots of 60,000+ spectators attending the game at Yankee Stadium. In fifth inning, #23 Jimmy Ripple of the Giants singles. #6 Johnny McCarthy singles, sending Ripple to third. Yankees pitcher Lefty Gomez gets the Giants' Burgess Whitehead to hit into a double play but Ripple scores, giving Giants 1-0 lead. Shot of crowd standing. Yankee player hits single. Giants' pitcher Carl Hubbell winds up and throws. The Yankees' Joe DiMaggio slashes hit to center field with bases loaded; two runs score and DiMaggio slides safely into second. Former heavyweight boxing champion Jack Dempsey watches the game through mesh fence. Yankee hitter Bill Dickey takes a ball. Dickey hits a single, scoring a run and moving up other runners. Yankees' George Selkirk hits single, scoring two more runs. #10 Harry Gumbert now pitching for Giants. Ground ball by Tony Lazzeri scores another run for Yankees. Gumbert walks Red Rolfe with the bases loaded, giving the Yanks their seventh run of the inning. Giants finally get last out of the inning, walk off field. In eighth inning, Lazzeri comes to bat against Giants pitcher Al Smith. Lazzeri hits home run, trots around bases, shakes hand of batboy at home plate. Final score is 8-1 Yankees. Fans walk onto field at end of the game.

Date: 1937, October 6
Duration: 2 min 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031438
New York City scenes around 1950 and views of the Burlington Mills operations in North Carolina, USA.

Documentary titled 'Woven into the life of America', on manufacture of various types of garments by the Burlington Mills in North Carolina, United States. View of the Statue of Liberty and of New York City Manhattan Island skyline from the New York Harbor. A boat underway at harbor. Aerial view of tall buildings and skyscrapers of New York City. Streets of busy New York City, with pedestrians in 1950s fashions walking on sidewalks of New York City, and some shopping. Trendy clothes are displayed in a shop's window. A model wearing a night gown. A bride being dressed. A receptionist at the reception counter of the Burlington Mills. Employees at work on loom machines.

Date: 1950
Duration: 2 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050469
Malvin Gray Johnson paints in the United States. Also New York City subway scene.

An African American artist opens his coat in United States. R W Lindsey prepares a fish sculpture with a child. A woman studies a book. Richard William Lindsey at a class observes students' paintings. Malvin Gray Johnson comes with a board, sits and paints. Paintings at a wall. W Ellisworth Artis prepares a sculpture. People at an exhibition of Spanish African American art. Next scene appears unrelated, and shows pedestrian traffic on a busy New York City street, with many men and women walking on the sidewalk beside stores and shops. Next scene shows a stopped subway train at a station in New York City. Men and women and a few police officers exit the train onto a crowded platform, as other riders wait to board the railroad train. Next scene returns to an art studio view, with African American painters at work. Final scenes show a Harmon Communities map depicting Long Island in New York, and view of a train passing slowly through a switch yard area or marshaling yard.

Date: 1937
Duration: 1 min 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035599