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WPA improved facilities at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, New York City, United States.

Works Progress Administration (WPA) projects in New York during the Great Depression. An Eastern Airlines DC-3 passenger airplane with painted words on side "The Great Silver Fleet" taxis on a runway at Floyd Bennett Airport field by Jamaica Bay in Brooklyn, New York City. Narrator describes WPA improvements to the airport. Plane parks atop a novel turntable and then is rotated to desired position. Rear hatch opens and crew member steps out. Trap door on ground near plane opens revealing a stairwell downward which debarking passengers then use to walk toward the main terminal. View of skyport landing and takeoff area on the East River and a pontoon-equipped small aircraft coming in for landing at one of these two skyports providing air taxi service from Manhattan Island. Narrator indicates that one skyport is located at 31st Street and another at Wall Street.

Date: 1936
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062812
People being rescued from the flood affected areas in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.

Damage caused due to flooding of the Potomac River at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia in March of 1936. Houses in the area covered by flood waters. Flooded streets. A man aboard a rescue boat. A woman and her child being rescued. A railroad trestle bridge at Harpers Ferry with water rushing underneath it, shortly before the river crested and the bridge was carried away by the flood. Hands of a person with weather reporting ticker tape running through his hands, showing details of the flood in Harpers Ferry.

Date: 1936, March 18
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062896
Smoke rises from the twin stacks of a steam powered ferry underway in the Ohio River

The Ohio River Valley in the United States soon after the flood there in January 1937. House along the bank of the river. A flood damaged home. Ships underway at the river. Smoke rises from the twin smoke stacks of a steam powered ferry boat in the Ohio River.

Date: 1937, January
Duration: 1 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062902
Soldiers of the 1st Cavalry Division arrive at the Atlantic Coast during their training in the United States.

The 1st Cavalry Division moving along the Atlantic Coast in the United States. An armored car parked on a field. Soldiers standing near the car and discussing a document. A soldier looks at the document. Other soldiers standing in the background. A group of soldiers discussing a map. The soldiers board the armored car. The car moving on the street. Trees along the sides of the street. Motorcycles and scouts move over a highway along the coast. Soldiers get off from motorcycles and advance along the coast. Artillery pulled by a trailer. The soldiers take the artillery to position. Other soldiers firing rifles and machine guns, lying in prone position on the beach. Two soldiers watching the target. 37 mm guns loaded and fired. (World War II period).

Date: 1942
Duration: 3 min 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063113
People gather in a large number to watch the Wood Memorial in New York, United States.

The Wood Memorial championship in New York, United States. Race horses on the ground. People gather in a large number at the race course. The race starts. The jockeys ride their horses on the race track. People watch the race. A man watch the race through binoculars. The Melodist wins the race.

Date: 1937, May 4
Duration: 1 min 59 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063197
Communist Party May Day parade in New York City

The communists march at the May Day parade in New York, United States. People gather in a large number on the street. The communists march holding boards and placards in hands. Some people seated on a truck passing on the street. Buildings along the sides of the street. Aerial view of the crowd on the street.

Date: 1933, May 1
Duration: 1 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063198