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View of famous landmarks in New York City, United States, in early 1940s.

A map of United States of America. Greyhound passenger bus pasing through toll booth on highway between Boston and New York. Tourist bus arrives in New York, USA. View of tourists inside the bus. Buildings in New York City. View of the Statue of Liberty from a boat. Heavy traffic outside the New York Public Library. Tourist couples travels on busy streets sitting in open top level of a double decker bus. View of the Empire State building and Will's building. Tourist couple enjoys view of the city from rooftop of Empire State Building. A telescope on the rooftop. Wide, sweeping, elevated views of skyscrapers and buildings of Manhattan, New York City, as seen from atop the Empire State Building in the early 1940s.

Date: 1942
Duration: 1 min 21 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Spanish
Clip: 65675050316
Plan for Peace, 1947. Public information film about U.S. Army Universal Military Training Project

Firing of a V-2 rocket from White Sands, New Mexico. An XP-84 jet aircraft on a test flight in California. Scenes of devastation in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. An atomic bomb test conducted in Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands. Large smoke cloud rises. Americans expressing disgust with war and confidence in ability to protect against it in future. Newspaper headline about Armistice ending World War I on November 11, 1918. Victory parade in New York City. Close up view of Adolf Hitler as he speaks forcefully to a German audience. V2 rocket being launched in Germany. German Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet rocket plane in flight. Map depicting uranium deposits world wide. An XB-36 bomber in flight with landing gear extended. A huge formation of various warplanes in flight, high overhead. A wartime tank assembly plant. American army troops on parade. A United Nations meeting in session. Peaceful scenes of American soldiers in Hawaii before World War II in the Pacific. Hawaiian Hula dancers. Japanese carrier-based Aichi D3A1 dive bomber in flight during attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. Bombed U.S. warships and facilities in Pearl Harbor. American Army officer and civilian discussing wisdom of maintaing large standing army. Army recruits are seen in the U.S. Army Universal Military Training Experimental Unit at Fort Knox, in 1947. They are seen in quarters, studying; taking part in sports (baseball); and attending religious services in a base chapel. Several trainees in a field tent, working with numerous tape decks in some kind of military communications activity.

Date: 1947
Duration: 4 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034918
The New York skyline and ferries go back and forth in water, New York City.

View of buildings in New York and ferries in water. The New York skyline with skyscrapers. Ferries go back and forth in the foreground. Various buildings in the background.

Date: 1941
Duration: 2 min 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675053008
Italian influence on American life. Italian Festival San Gennaro at Mulberry Street, in New York City.

Italian influence on American life, reflected in gastronomy and history. A man selling flags and parade goods for the Feast of San Gennaro (Festa di San Gennaro) in Mulberry Street, New York City. An Italian American woman cooks Italian sausage and meats. Man holding a green parrot. Italian American woman inspects her boyfriend’s necklace. Poster reads “Feast of San Gennaro”. A man pins money on a string of cash attached to the carriage of San Gennaro. A metal effigy of San Gennaro. Italian American brass band. Italian chefs prepare and cook pizza at a restaurant kitchen. Exterior view of Marconi Restaurant signage in Little Italy. Views of Ferris Wheel; . decorative lights; a brass band. A chef rolls and toss a pizza dough by hand. Waiter takes a bottle of Chianti from the restaurant bar. Chef sprinkles cheese on a Pizza Margherita. Customers eating pizza in restaurant. A woman eats pizza while a man pours a glass of Chianti. Man and woman put napkin on dog and feed him pizza. A Casino. View of “Larry’s Bar” sign. View of George Washington Bridge over the Hudson River. Heroic sculpture of Italian explorer and navigator Giovanni da Verrazzano (c. 1485-1528) by Ettore Ximenes (1855–1926) in Battery Park, New York City. Home of Giuseppe Garibaldi, on Staten Island, New York. Visitors enter the home, which displays sign reading: (in Italian)" He lived in exile, 1851 to 1853. Giuseppe Garibaldi, Hero of two worlds." View of statue at Christopher Columbus Memorial Fountain, Columbus Circle. in front of the Union Station, Washington, DC. Italian Carabinieri march in Columbus Day parade on 5th Avenue, in New York City. Italian and American flags displayed on building. St. Patrick's Cathedral is seen. Italian journalists at work in Washington, DC and New York City. An Italian journalist speaks about his experience as a journalist in New York City.

Date: 1956
Duration: 2 min 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Italian
Clip: 65675041849
Lions, Zebras and springbok at Bronx Zoo in New York City and elephant house at a zoo in Philadelphia.

Visitors arrive at the Bronx Zoo (2300 Southern Boulevard, Bronx Park, Bronx, New York 10460, U.S.) in New York City. The zookeeper opens the lions’ gate. Lions coming out of the gate. Lions laze around the enclosure of the zoo. A lion drinking from a puddle. A moat keeps them out of visitors' way. Zebras and springbok graze in the zoo. They have their own waterhole. Birds in the zoo. Inauguration of a new elephant house “Pachyderm House” of the Philadelphia Zoo (3400 W Girard Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States). The Pachyderm House was designed by architect Paul Philippe Cret. Officials cut the ribbon during its inauguration. An elephant walks with the United States flag. Elephants give a performance on stools. Monkeys come out from a barrel. Children watch elephants performing and a man touching the open mouth of a hippopotamus in the zoo.

Date: 1941, May 5
Duration: 1 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675053566
New York State Governor Franklin Roosevelt (FDR) swims in pool; Mayor Jimmy Walker arriving in New York Court to answer corruption allegations

New York State Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) swims with family and friends in swimming pool, installed in an old greenhouse in the New York State Executive Mansion in Albany, New York (138 Eagle St, Albany, NY 12202, United States). Franklin Roosevelt laughs and passes a ball while swimming. View of New York State Supreme Court Building in Manhattan, New York City (60 Centre Street New York, NY, United States). With his entourage, Franklin D. Roosevelt climbs the stair to enter the New York State Supreme Court Building. Flamboyant New York City Mayor Jimmy Walker enters the New York State Supreme Court Building, to answer allegations of corruption before the investigative Seabury Commission of Judge Samuel Seabury. Courtroom full of people watching the investigation into corruption within the administration of Mayor Jimmy Walker.

Date: 1930
Duration: 1 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079077