Visitors enter the West Point Bullion Depository (now known as West Point Mint Facility) near the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York, United States during its construction. View of a woman wearing a black cartwheel hat. West Point Bullion Depository staff opens bank vault door. Guests enter bank vault. View of bank vault inside. Man closes shut West Point Bullion Depository bank vault door. This building was also referred to as the "Fort Knox of Silver."
940 Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park, New York (2150 Hempstead Turnpike, Elmont, NY 11003, United States). Huge crowds watch the Belmont Stakes horse race. Two horses trotting before the race. A man uses binoculars and another man pointing during the race. Horses come out of the starting gates to run on a turf track. Spectators eagerly watch the race. A man chews gum while fashionable women behind him watch the horse race. A horse named Bimelech and ridden by jockey Fred A Smith wins the 1940 Belmont Stakes.
An Edison phonograph playing a record. American inventor Thomas Alva Edison and his wife Mina Miller Edison at the porch of a house. Edison taking his hat off. Edison punching his timecard in timeclock as he arrives in his office. View of Thomas Edison’s West Orange Laboratory (211 Main St, West Orange, NJ 07052, United States) in New Jersey. Thomas Edison shakes hands with an employee inside his factory. Edison watches his employees working. A hole being drilled. A lathe machine scrapes a block of metal. Wheels of belt driven machines moving inside a factory. Cylinder phonograph playing ‘Mary had a Little Lamb’. Illustration depicting Thomas Edison with gramophone by Poyet. A wax cylinder phonograph playing music. Still image of a male opera singer and an orchestra perform in a recording studio. A glowing lightbulb.
A wall clock hanging on top of a window. Camera shows American inventor Thomas Alva Edison’s laboratory. Glass laboratory bottles and tubes on display. Footage circa 1920 of Thomas Alva Edison showing early lightbulbs to colleagues. A carbon filament light bulb lights up. Camera moves closer to show the glowing carbon filament inside the lamp. Early filmmaking in the United States. A man cranks a Kinetograph, the first movie camera invented by Edison. A belly dancer performs in one of Edison’s early films. A film rolling. A boxing match filmed by Thomas Edison. A cameraman records the boxing match inside Edison’s Black Maria film studio in West Orange, New Jersey. Exteriors of the Black Maria studio showing the turntable and wheels underneath. 19th century women wearing summer dresses strolling in film captured by Edison. Cameramen sent by Edison films people on the beach and in amusement park rides. Edison having lunch with other inventors Henry Ford Sr., Harvey Firestone Sr., and Alexander Graham Bell. View of Edison’s study. A light bulb is turned off.
Pedestrians walking in front of a supermarket in New York. Bottles of beverages are seen from store windows. A blond woman and other shoppers inside a supermarket. Packaged and prepared grocery items such as Old London Melba toast, Campbell’s Soup, Knorr Beef Noodle Soup in the aisles of the supermarket. Woman takes cans of Campbell’s Soup from shelves. She also picks up a pack of paper napkins, kitchen sponges, Woolite, and dishwashing soap and puts them in her shopping cart. Shopper picks up a tray of Sara Lee Apricot Danish pie from the frozen food section. Various products at the frozen food freezer in the grocery store.
A cloud of smoke emerges from a sinking ship, destroyed by a German submarine torpedo, off the coast of the United States. The ship is ruptured from its center and sinking gradually. Photographer aboard a New Jersey-based Coast Guard ship captures photographs of the sinking ship, Strong waves rock the observing ship.
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