Life style at Levittown in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States. Scene of lake with houses in the background. People at night gather around a fire to grill hot dogs on long forks or sticks. They sit there and eat food. People come out of a building. Two women and men stand and talk. Scenes of Good Shepard Lutheran Church.
Work, lifestyle of citizens, and landmark places of the Levittown suburban housing community in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States. A dentist treats a boy reclined on a dental examination chair. A woman sits at waiting room of the clinic. Nurse holds the child and hands over her to the women. Men driving a Good Humor Ice Cream truck pass by and wave. People work at an office. Draftsmen and architects work on drawings of suburban homes and community buildings that are spread over the tables. Man points to places on Levittown's map on a wall. Man points to Levittown's map spread over the table. Man points at a front elevation and yard drawing of a 1950's suburb house. View of shopping mall areas at Levittown with walking promenade and planted greenery between the stores and shops of Levittown. 'Bucks County Playhouse' written on the wall. Board of 'Washington Crossing Thompson Neely House'. View of cost line with fleet of ships. Board of "Levittown station" at local railroad train station. Scene of the Levittown train station on the Pennsylvania Railroad. Exterior view of the station and then view of passenger train arriving at the station and passengers emerging from train cars to station. Three women sit at drawing room of a home in the suburbs and talk. A woman brings drinks and serves to men on sofa. A boy sits on a chair and reads. Two boys sit at a table and play. Woman comes to the table and gives drinks to the children.
Life at Levittown in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States, an early model suburb. A house under construction in Levittown. Line of houses under construction. Scenes of fully constructed houses with yards and plantings. People go into a 1950's vintage suburban house. Scene of pool, dentist working. Map of Levittown on wall. Men and women stand and talk. People work in an office. Three women sit on sofa in drawing room. People sit around a barbecue fire roasting hot dogs. People sit on the garden chairs and talk. View of Levittown.
USS Akron (ZRS-4), helium filled American-made rigid type Dirigible, at Lakehurst Naval Station, New Jersey, in the United States. USS Akron on the landing field. Sailors work near the airship. The airship is moved by a mobile mooring mast and it's stern beam, prominent in this film clip, in preparation for flight. The stern bumper seen being carried by sailors will be attached to the lower fin where the stern beam has been removed to the right, starboard.
Damage caused by 1937 flood in the Ohio Valley area of the United States. A heavy loss of property due to a flood. Supplies being unloaded from trucks for the people. People being rescued from the areas affected by flood. Men aboard boats moving through buildings on the edge of the Ohio River that are submerged in water. Men moving a wooden casket. Destroyed houses and buildings in the areas. Flooded streets. A weather vane blowing briskly in wind. Narrator details how the weather bureau forecasts the weather and offers the information to help prevent losses from such disasters. Automatic typing machine records weather instrument readings. View of newspapers being printed at a printing press. A radio tower. People gather near injured flood victims. People lined up on the street to get supplies. Scenes of floodwaters below Memphis where flooding was effectively contained. Water rushing under the then new Bonnet Carre spillway of Lake Pontchartrain near New Orleans. Man opens a book published in Lisbon in 1605, now in the Library of Congress, written by Gabriel Lobo Lasso de la Vega, reporting on the exploration team of De Soto on leaf 300 of the book. De Soto's group, in 1543, reported on the flood they saw below current day Memphis, extending over 20 leagues of land, covering the tops of trees, but not overrunning the homes of the Native Americans who build shelter atop high poles. A view of submerged homes in the 1937 flood are shown as the narrator laments that more modern people did worse than the Native American Indians.
Manufacturing of Browning Automatic Rifles at Winchester Repeating Arms Company in the United States during World War 1. Workers at grinders and presses.. Women work assembling and grinding parts in the production process. Group of women workers seated at a table as they work.
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