A Grand Union supermarket in Yonkers, New York, in the United States. A sign that reads 'Take Enough Home Today' rotates on a stand in the suburban grocery store. A large Miller beer novelty can suspended from the ceiling and appearing to pour beer into a giant glass below. Jars on shelves. An array of grocery articles on the shelves, including both refrigerated shelves and dry shelves. Some of the shelves show the Grand Union gravity-fed system that they called the Food-O-Mat.
A Grand Union supermarket or grocery store in Yonkers, New York, United States, in the 1950s (located in Cross County Shopping Center). Shoppers entering the suburban store with carts. People shop in the supermarket. The shoppers push trolleys or shopping carts in the aisles. People select groceries from a vast array of things on the shelves including bacon, cheese, wine, ham. A woman chooses apples from a heap and puts them in a paper bag. Another shopper handles a cantaloupe in the produce area.
A Grand Union grocery store supermarket in the suburbs, at Cross County Center in Yonkers New York, United States. View of the billing or checkout counter as a shopper puts her items on the moving belt. Meats and other groceries at the checkout or billing counter. A woman cashier operates a manual cash register and tallies purchases. A woman puts a paper bag in a trolley or shopping cart. A woman pushes a trolley and enters the suburban supermarket.
A film on U.S. electric power resources. A steam plant in Buffalo, New York. Exterior of the plant. Work being carried on. Interior of the plant. Machines and equipment in the plant.
American inventor Thomas Alva Edison at General Electric company in the United States. A bulb on a table. Edison and men watch a man working on a machine. He looks at workers making light bulbs. Several women seated at desks and working on machines. Edison arrives at a research laboratory in Schenectady, New York. He is greeted by Dr. W. R. Whitney who is the director of research. They shake hands. Officials seated at a desk. Whitney hands a pen to Edison. Edison writes in a book. Whitney and Edison in the laboratory. Edison examines a filament and listens to Whitney.
Christening of USS Ranger in Newport News, Virginia. People gather in a large number at a harbor. The bow of the ship. A speaker's stand. Several workers on a side of the dry dock. The bottom portion of the bow of USS Ranger. Workers handle lines as the ship slowly moves away from the dock. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Arthur W. Radford, his wife and several other people on the speaker's stand as the ship leaves the dock. The speakers stand alongside the dock. The ship backs away from the dock. People in the background.
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