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Skyscrapers and government buildings along Lower Broadway in Manhattan, New York City in 1920s.

Documentary about buildings of New York. The buildings and skyscrapers along lower Broadway. A dirigible airship floats overhead. The busy street with vehicles, streetcars and crowds of people walking. The New York City Hall (City Hall Park, New York, NY 10007, United States), built over a hundred years ago. The high-rise Manhattan Municipal Building (1 Centre St, New York, NY 10007, United States). The James A. Farley Building housing the United States Postal Service (421 8th Ave, New York, NY 10001, United States) on Eighth Avenue. The Flatiron Building (175 5th Ave, New York, NY 10010, United States) stands on edge of busy crossroads.

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1925
Duration: 1 min 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036357
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum opens in New York City.

Inauguration of the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. New York City Mayor Robert F Wagner in the presence of other dignitaries cuts the ribbon at the museum's opening ceremony. A continuous spiral ramp runs along the height of the structure. Workmen hang paintings within the Guggenheim Museum (1071 5th Ave, New York, NY 10128, United States). Mayor Robert F. Wagner and Harry F. Guggenheim look at the paintings, modern art, and sculptures inside the Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

Location: New York United States USA
Date: 1959, October 21
Duration: 1 min 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029872
14th annual Barrel-Jumping competition, on ice, at Grossinger's Resort in the Catskill Mountains of New York State

Skaters are seen circling the ice rink to gain speed, at Grossinger's Catskill Resort, in the Catskill Mountains, at Liberty, New York. They then attempt to leap over lines of barrels set on the ice, during the 14 annual barrel jumping competition. Contestants are seen clearing successively more barrels as they are added to the starting number of 11. Scene shifts to officials setting up a 16th barrel. Several fail to clear the 16 barrels, which is finally accomplished, again, by last year's winner, Ken Lebel of Lake Placid, New York. He is seen receiving the trophy from Mary Ann Mobley, television and screen personality, and former Miss America (1959).

Location: Liberty New York USA
Date: 1965, January 9
Duration: 1 min 27 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044214
Events related to Cuban Missile Crisis: Cuban revolution in 1959; Khrushchev and Castro in 1960; Soviet missiles withdrawn 1962

Cheering Cuban crowds seen celebrating Fidel Castro's successful overthrow of Batista, in 1959, in Havana, Cuba. Fidel Castro with Nikita Khrushchev outside Hotel Theresa in Harlem, New York City, before meetings at the United Nations building in New York City, during the opening of the 15th General Assembly (September 19, 1960). View of Castro walking in front of UN building entrance. View of Soviet Navy ships carrying missiles from Cuba, back to the Soviet Union, in 1962. Nikita Khrushchev gesturing and talking outside a building. Newspaper photograph of Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko conversing with U.S. President John F. Kennedy, who is seated in his rocking chair at the White House.

Location: Cuba
Date: 1962
Duration: 1 min 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Spanish
Clip: 65675067627
Views of Manhattan and the United Nations Headquarters Building under construction in New York City

Manhattan skyline in New York City, United States. Ship moving in New York Harbor and the East River. The Empire State Building (20 W 34th St., New York, NY 10001) and Chrysler Building (405 Lexington Ave, New York, NY 10174, United States) skyscrapers are seen. Brief aerial views above Manhattan Island. New York City skyline views. View of United Nations Headquarters building (405 E 45th St, New York, NY 10017, United States) under construction, as seen from the East River.

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1948
Duration: 1 min 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675030574
Views of New York City and environs, especially Manhattan, in the United States.

Film begins showing location of New York City on a world globe, at the mouth of the Hudson River on the East Coast of the United States. It transitions to an aerial view of the Southern tip of Manhattan Island at the junction of the Hudson and East Rivers and slowly shows views moving Northward along the Hudson River. Piers along the Hudson are visible. Scene shifts to above those piers, looking South at the cluster of Manhattan skyscraper buildings, and beyond to New York Harbor, the borough of Queens, and Brooklyn, and beyond to Long Island in the misty distance. Next the skyscrapers are seen from Queens,across the East River. A large ocean liner is seen underway in New York Harbor, among ferry boats, barges, and tugboats. The Statue of Liberty is seen in the background. An animated map shows regions around New York and traces the Hudson and Mohawk valleys into the Great Lakes. The map is then overlaid with numerous lines representing transportation routes by lend, water, and air. View of Brooklyn Bridge, wharfs, and Manhattan skyline in hazy background. Seagoing freighters loading and unloading at New York's piers. A truck and other cargoes being moved by cranes. Passenger trains moving in the New York city area. View of the famous Beaux-Arts style Penn Station by architects McKim, Mead, and White, at West 34th Street and Eighth Avenue, in Manhattan. Train station interior crowded with travelers and commuters. Commercial aircraft taxiing at a New York area airport. Closeup of two young children watching the planes. Passengers deplaning from a large aircraft. Sign for Peruvian International Airways atop an airport building. A Swissair passenger plane being serviced. Passengers boarding a TWA Lockheed Constellation airplane. A family watching airplanes from an airport observation deck. The Lockheed Constellation starting its engines. A Douglas DC-4 aircraft taxis out and takes off, as several boys watch from the observation deck. Closeup of another group of boys watching planes from the observation deck. Aerial view of Manhattan skyscraper buildings from an overflying airplane. Traffic on streets at Times Square. The Astor Hotel at the left and the Times building straight ahead. Several other street scenes in Manhattan, crowded with pedestrians. A view residential apartment houses along Park Avenue. Views of African Americans crowding the sidewalks in Harlem. Views of "Little Italy" in the lower East side of Manhattan, where Italian restaurants and other businesses are seen. Chinatown is seen with some of the business signs in Chinese. A man of Chinese heritage reading a letter. Asian American children playing together in a neighborhood. New high rise apartment buildings are seen replacing older homes in parts of Manhattan. Mothers wheeling their children on sidewalks in one of the new neighborhoods.

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1948
Duration: 5 min 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054422
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