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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
Examples of Italian-American mutuality. Italian restaurants and marble show rooms in New York City, United States

Italian influence in American life. in A showroom of "Italian Marble Mosaic", in New York City. Interior of the showroom. Street level views of Manhattan buildings under construction with Italian marble being used for their exteriors. View of Empire State Building (20 W 34th St, New York, NY 10001, United States). Aircraft from various airlines at New York Idlewild airport. DC-4 and DC-6 aircraft of Eastern Airlines, SAS Scandinavian Airlines and Pan American Airways. Passengers disembark from an Linee Aeree Italiane (also known as Alitalia) aircraft. An orange airport police car on the tarmac. Linee Aeree Italiane office in Manhattan, with prospective tourist travelers. The Italian Ocean liner, "Cristoforo Colombo" in the Hudson River, is passed by the ferry boat "Weehawken" of the New York Central System. The Cristoforo Colombo docking and unloading Italian goods. Men bring Italian fabrics into the Manhattan shop of Italian designer, Anthony Blotto, where they are examined and admired by women. Anthony Blotto and his staff create women’s fashions from the fabrics, which are modeled in his salon. View of Empire State Building. Sign for Toffenetti's Restaurant (151 W 42nd St, New York, NY 10036, United States) is shown. Many neon lighted signs on New York City streets at night.

Date: 1956
Duration: 2 min 21 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Italian
Clip: 65675041848
Statistics showing the growth of the Bell System from 1876 to 1926 in the United States.

A documentary titled 'Building for Service' in the United States. In 1878 there were fewer telephones in the United States as compared to later years. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, in his forecast to the Electric Telephone Company writes that telephone cables could be laid underground or suspended overhead connecting with wires to buildings of any kind. A man could speak to another man at a distant place by this means. A graph showing the growth of the Bell System in the number of telephones, from 2 million in 1876 to 16 million in 1926. Thousands of people have worked in streets and on mountains in laying telephone facility, to bring the inventor's forecast to reality. A graph showing physical property of the Bell System from year 1911 through 1925.

Date: 1926
Duration: 1 min 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066325
People throng to cathedrals and participate in the Easter parade in New York City

New Yorkers celebrate Easter Sunday in different churches across the city. A woman GI presents 'By Request' for the Army Navy Screen Magazine' in the United States. GIs from New York request a glimpse of Easter. A large crowd lines the sidewalk, Roman Catholic churchgoers enter the St. Patrick's Cathedral (5th Ave, New York, NY 10022, United States). Civilians and women GIs among the crowd. Cars pass by on the road outside the St. John's Cathedral (1047 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY 10025, United States). Episcopalian GIs enter the cathedral. Women GIs pose on the cathedral steps. A Gi kisses a woman GI. People emerge from the cathedral. Mount Olivet Baptist Church: Good Friday and Holy Week Service banners at the cathedral entrance. African American families emerge from the Mount Olivet Baptist Church (201 Malcolm X Blvd, New York, NY 10027, United States) in Harlem. An African American man with his two little girls. The Easter parade on 5th Avenue. Policemen keep vigil. Women in elaborate coats and hats. GIs and young boys in the parade. American industrialist Henry J Kaiser and his wife. Easter flowers on display. New York girls and children.

Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031224
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
Animations depict the relative efficiency of different sources of energy; turbines at a power plant in the United States

Slate reads “He who leaves the beaten track in search of knowledge oft comes unexpected to his goal.”. A photo of a sunrise with word “Light”. Diagram enumerates the types of light- torch, candle, kerosene, gas and electric- and their level of relative efficiency. A drawing featuring different types of lights. Animation depicts a man hand pedaling to pull a block and tackle. Animations show a moving horse and engines that operate on steam, gasoline, and electricity, operate similar machines, pulling block and tackle faster than man. Lights illuminate Times Square in New York City at night. Giant turbines operate at a power plant in the United States.

Date: 1926
Duration: 2 min 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675080172