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The Tammany Hall, City Hall and Municipal Hall of the City of New York City.

The buildings, architecture, and busy streets of Lower Manhattan, New York City. The Tammany Hall (44 Union Square E, New York, NY 10003, USA), City Hall (City Hall Park, New York, NY 10007, United States) and the Manhattan Municipal Building (1 Centre St, New York, NY 10007, USA). Pedestrians and cars in Lower Manhattan. 1934.

Date: 1937
Duration: 1 min 23 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675035827
Contrast between the lifestyle of hectic workdays and quiet Sundays in New York City in the late 1940's after World War 2.

"City Pastorale" shows citizens of New York City hurrying about their business during workday on a street in New York City. Vehicular traffic and pedestrians. People riding on the subway. Views of workaday foot traffic along New York sidewalk in midtown Manhattan. Macy's department store. Racks of clothes being wheeled along the streets and sidewalks. Scenes of New Yorkers in hectic activity. In contrast, are shown peaceful scenic views of New York City. Penthouse gardens. Clothes drying on a rooftop line. People entering a number of different churches in Manhattan, New York. A woman in a garden. A man and a boy sit and read newspapers in the garden. The young boy looks at the "funny papers" (comic strips). A man walks with a child on a sidewalk. Cars parked. People chatting on the sidewalk of a New York city street. The Chrysler Building and nearby skyscrapers. People taking pictures with handheld cameras at a playground. Families with babies. Children playing in a park. Quiet streets. Car drives beneath an elevated train. Men walk on a ramp. People relax on beaches. Older women gathered together on the beach talking, while boys play in the sand at the edge of the surf. A huge crowd seated in a baseball stadium and watching a game between the New York Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers, including a shot of Giants pitcher, #36 ( Mickey McGowan ?), throwing from the mound and, in another scene, Giants #23 (Clint Hartung ?) batting and striking out. Views of the fans watching the baseball game, including some men in suits and boys sitting together in the bleachers watching the game and eating ice cream on a stick. Visitors stroll through the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Date: 1948
Duration: 6 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054118
City College wins National Invitation Tournament after beating Bradley College of Peoria

Championship college basketball game between City College of New York and Bradley College of Peoria in the National Invitation Tournament in New York, United States. Scenes of the game underway at Madison Square Garden in New York City. CCNY Beavers beat Bradley College to win the trophy. Winning team of the NIT with the trophy and their coach Nat Holman.

Date: 1950, March 18
Duration: 1 min 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058618
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
A seminar of the Association for Mental Health, Anxiety and Tension in the U.S.

View of spinning world globe. Views of serious looking and brooding people. Close-up views of faces of serious looking men. View of a crowd of people in France listening to a speaker on the street. Faces of people listening to the speaker. Next view shows what appears to be French police in the streets chasing a protest crowd and making it disperse. Next brief scene shows a crowd of people and police in China surrounding what appears to be a European man and pushing him along through a curtain-flanked doorway. A person holding a motion picture camera is among the jostling crowd. Insignia of the United Nations and flags of the member nations around the insignia. View of the UN headquarters in New York City. Traffic on a road. A flag of the United States on a building. A banner reads "Association for Mental Health, First Annual Forum on Anxiety and Tension." A man speaks into a microphone. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt is seen at podium addressing the association. Members of the association seated on chairs. Scene changes to a quiet, tree-lined street in a town or suburb. A car parked on the road. A man rests in a backyard garden on a hammock. Contrasting scene shows a man come rushing and running out of his house, hastily putting on his suit jacket. He stops, remembers something and goes back in again, then comes out before getting in his 1950s sedan car and rushing away. In next scene the man in shirt and tie is seen rushing through his lunch at a restaurant, conducting business while eating and smoking a cigarette. View of a angry taxicab driver as he looks out his car window and shouts at stopped traffic. He steps from the car and shouts about traffic delay. Another man works with a pneumatic jack hammer. A man seated on a chair in his living room holds his head as his wife yells at him and berates her husband. She is seen shaking a finger at him and scolding him. View of his fingers tapping anxiously on the arm of the chair and finally make a fist. Mor scenes of the angry woman wagging her finger at the man in anger. A pair of white swans in mirror-like water. A white Polar bear in a hot cage at a zoo. A man looks at the tired bear and the man also rubs his own face, looking tired. A young boy pulls at the trousers of the man who is looking at the bear, to get his attention.

Date: 1955
Duration: 4 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675033777
Vehicular traffic passes over the Queensboro Bridge in New York City.

The Queensboro Bridge, in New York City, United States. Manhattan New York City skyline visible under bridge, including skyscrapers like the Empire State Building and Chrysler Building, which is also seen through stone arch of the Queensboro Bridge. Skyline of buildings seen from park under the bridge. View of Chrysler Building from street looking up. Northbound traffic on Henry Hudson Parkway. George Washington Bridge in distance. Views of George Washington Bridge. Boat plying Hudson river with ramparts of Fort visible on opposite shore. Boat passing George Washington Bridge. Man stands on palisades by George Washington Bridge, smoking a cigarette. He waves.

Date: 1950
Duration: 3 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054173