From the Ford Motor Company produced film, "Scenes From the World of Tomorrow" documenting the 1939-1940 World's Fair in New York City. View of Ford Pavilions in the Ford Exposition. People stand outside the Ford Pavilion. Exterior of the building. Statues and flags in front of the building. Interior of the building. Visitors enter the building to gain knowledge about Ford and modern industry. They view historic Ford cars. Then they view the new 1940 cars: Ford, Ford Deluxe, Mercury, Lincoln Zephyr, and Lincoln. Visitors view Henry Ford's first gasoline engine. A giant moving mural by Henry Billings symbolizing the dependence of industry on pure science. The Industrial Hall, featuring a giant Ford Cycle of Production exhibit that traces the progress of 27 raw materials through their production cycle to a finished Ford vehicle. Demonstrations of manual, hand-production versus mechanized production and comparison of costs, with cost for a hand-produced car ringing in around 17,000 dollars.
A new amphibious sports car 'Amphicar' being tested at Long Island in New York. The car is navigated through a river. The Amphicar successfully crosses the river and reaches the shore.
Exteriors of a new Army Post Office in New York City. Railroad train arriving at post office station. Mail bags are unloaded from the train. Thousands of Postal mail bags filled with Christmas packages, parcels, and letters are seen stacked inside the post office. Mails being sorted inside the post office. Packages and letters on a moving conveyor belt. Bags being moved by multi-car trolleys. Troops' mails being unloaded from a truck at the war front. Packages and letters being handed out to U.S. soldiers in World War II. Soldiers standing by a Christmas tree and receiving mail. A soldiers patrols on guard duty in front of a Christmas tree.
Celebrations mark the beginning of the New Year in New York, United States. Thousands of merrymakers gather at Time's Square and celebrate. Couples drink and dance in night clubs and restaurants.
A widowed female hippopotamus gets a new partner at a zoo in New York. A hippopotamus plays in water at the zoo. Zookeeper feeds a group of hippopotamuses. A hippopotamus chewing. Two heavy-weight hippopotamuses move around in the cage. Rosa and Caliph the hippopotamuses face each other with bars separating them. Animated hearts surround the two hippos. Spectators watch the animals in the background. A hippopotamus comes close to the camera.
Jewish Rosh Hashanah New Year prayers in New York's East Side. Views of quiet streets that are normally busy. Jews in shuls offer prayers. Men in Tallit robes praying. Jewish women light candles and pray.
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