German airplane attacks an observation balloon near Montfaucon in France on October 3, 1918 . The observer drops in a parachute from the balloon. Antiaircraft guns and machines guns are fired at the approaching enemy plane to protect the balloon. The balloon explodes in flames and crashes to earth. The German air plane is shot down. Shows the wrecked plane and its pilot under officer Hans Heinrick Marwede. (World War I. World War 1. WWI. WW1)
Horse carriages move down a road at countryside in United States. Telephone cables are transported in a circular box on a tracked vehicle. Man on a telephone pole works on telephone lines. Man splices the telephones cables and joins them. He applies hot lead at the wire-joints. Man tests for air holes in the cables to prevent moisture to enter.
Thousands of mummers stage a traditional New Year's Day parade in their colorful costumes in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Many performers are men in drag (men dressed as women). Ornate floats pass by in the parade, including an "invasion from Mars" scene and a ship being tossed on the ocean. A car weighed down by a heavy cart attached to it drives with its front wheels up in the air. Crowd of Mummers parade participants dancing in street, including some in blackface.
Exteriors of Fort Monmouth and its Camp Evans Signal Laboratory in New Jersey. Radar dishes revolving in fenced area. Visit of U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy, Chairman of Senate Subcommittee investigating "Army Signal Corps Subversion and Espionage.". Among those accompanying Senator McCarthy are Roy Cohn, chief counsel to the Senate Subcommittee , Senator H. Alexander Smith, of New Jersey, Robert T. Stevens,Secretary of the Army, Congressman James O. Auchincloss, of New Jersey, and Major General K.B.Lawton, Commanding General of Fort Monmouth. McCarthy and companions board a Military Air Transport C-47 aircraft to depart.
A meeting in Texas to protest the National Women's Conference held in Houston, Texas. Phyllis Schlafly National Chairwoman of Stop Equal Rights Amendment makes her speech. She differentiates between their meeting and the National Women's Conference being held in Houston. She speaks on the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) and warns that the ERA will allow homosexuals to marry, teach in schools, and adopt children. Men and women at the meeting have 'STOP ERA' signs and logos with them. A white woman and an African American woman raise bible books in the air and wave them as the attendees cheer during Schlafly's speech.
Exteriors of the suburban Cross County Center shopping center in Yonkers, New York in the late 1950s. Camera pans across the Grand Union grocery store advertising its gravity-fed "Food -O-Mat" shelving system. There is also an automat in front of the store for a number of items. Close up view of an automat automatic vending machine. Man pulls a box of cornflakes from the machine after inserting coins. View of grocery store puchases from the Grand Union supermarket in large bins on a conveyor belt, as they roll to bag boys outside the store, who lift the bags into the cars of waiting customers. A car pulls up to a drive in window at the Peoples Trust Bank and the driver deposits a large bag of money into the teller drawer. Elevated view of the Cross County Center open air suburban shopping center and many 1950s cars parked in the parking lots. Signs seen at shopping center include "Lerner Shops" and "Gimbels". Many cars on the nearby roads and parking lots.
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