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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
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
People protest under the banner of New York State Communist Party in New York; anti-communist protestors engage them

People carrying flags and banners during a Communist Party demonstration march in New York City. Workers march carrying various signs, including: "Fur workers demand a better union contract", and "Furriers Women's Community". Other signs include: "Defend the Twelve," and "Save Willie McGee" (African American convict accused of raping a white woman), and "Repeal McCarran Law", and "Willie McGee shall not die". Anti-Communist crowd on sides of street yells at protestors and taunts them. Crowd suddenly surges as a fight breaks out on a street corner. Police break up the fight. The protestors are marching under the auspices of New York State Communist Party in New York, United States. More shots of onlookers yelling at demonstrators and jeering, as they stand in front of a Newman's 5 and 10 cent store. Horse mounted police restrain crowd yelling and pushing toward the marching demonstrators. More marchers and a sign "Art students for peace." Some people march with American flags in their hands.

Date: 1950
Duration: 2 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675038227
The United Nations Security Council passes Resolution 82 on June 25, 1950 and takes action.in response to North Korean aggression against South Korea.

In the United States, American troops to reinforce those responding to North Korean aggression against South Korea, parade along Constitution Avenue in Washington DC, with capitol building seen in background. American soldiers boarding a train to transport them to a port of embarkation. Remainder of the film is devoted to soldiers from the 53 nations contributing forces to the United Nations (UN) action. Canada contributes troops to the effort. Camera closeup of shoulder emblem on a Canadian officer boarding a train. Canadian troops marching to a port of embarkation. Turkish troops on their way to Korea, pass in review before a commanding officer. Troops of the Netherlands, also seen marching. Australian troops assembled before sailing to Korea. Swedish doctors and nurses board a ship bound for Korea, where they will set up field hospitals to care for wounded. British sailors boarding transport ship to Korea. Brief view of the Royal Navy Colossus class aircraft carrier, HMS Triumph (16) underway in Korean waters. Australian soldiers boarding an aircraft to Korea. One raises his rifle and waves from the top of the stairs as he enters the plane. More soldiers climbing gangways to large transport ships. Asian civilians waving small flags as they cheer departing soldiers. British soldiers wearing berets with pom poms are seen disembarking from a troop ship. More views of United Nations troops marching in formations. The UN General Assembly building in Lake Success, Long Island, New York. View of delegates inside the building. Film ends showing a rotating globe of the world, with flags of Nations participating in UN actions in Korea, being shown as the globe passes their respective countries.

Date: 1951
Duration: 2 min 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058358
Paintings exhibition in Museum of Modern Art in New York City, USA.

Exterior of Museum of Modern Arts in New York City, United States of America. Entrance of the museum can be seen. A board saying 'Paintings from Museum Collection'. Interior of the museum, people observing the paintings. A couple viewing “The Red Studio” by Henri Matisse and in conversation.

Date: 1950
Duration: 3 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675032805
The 82nd Congressional Elections in United States.

Counting of votes after the 82nd Congress Elections. Men and women calculate the results. An Election Commissioner impounds and rechecks the voting machines. Two men seen inspecting voting machines. New York Republican candidate W Kingsland Macy smokes a pipe. View of New York Democratic candidate Ernest Greenwood. Newspaper headlines about Governor Democrat G Williams' win against Harry Kelly. Williams shakes hands with a supporter. Exterior of the U.S. Capitol in Washington DC. The 82nd Congress in session. View of senate chamber as narrator describes near even Democratic and Republican split in the Senate. Former Governor of New York Democrat Herbert Lehmen returns to the Senate. Closeup view of Lehman. View of the Congress House of Representatives in session. Additional exterior views of the Capitol dome and the Capitol building in Washington DC.

Date: 1950, November 17
Duration: 1 min 58 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020703