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Importance of interstate highways in United States; Point of view shots of American highway system from a moving vehicle

Shining glass panels of a building on a road side. A road construction site. View of Interstate 91 (I-91) construction in Hartford Connecticut. Traffic moving on an interstate highway. A 36 story apartment in New York, above the Freeway leading from the George Washington Bridge. A highway with bridges. View of commuter bus terminal and George Washington bridge over the Hudson River in New York City. Many views of American highways as seen from a moving vehicle. Speaking about the new interstate highway system, narrator says, "Soon, traffic will flow smoothly, in, around, and between every major city and town in America. There will be no traffic tie-ups where the interstate goes. Driving time will become minutes for local trips, and city to city travel will be shorter by hours. The complete network will make it possible to drive coast to coast, city to city, without a stop light and without delays caused by heavy traffic." Many 1950s era cars and trucks are seen moving on the highway roads. View of interstate highway in Atlanta Georgia of southern United States, with exits to Interstate 75 and Interstate 85. Sign on interstate highway 580 near Hayward California. Traffic moving under a bridge. Road signs on highway for exit to Route 21 in North Carolina between Charlotte and Statesville. Cars moving on roads. Back of a truck moving on a highway. A restaurant on the side of a road. Children fishing in a body of water on the side of a road. A family sitting in shade enjoying a picnic during a road trip. People eating at a picnic table. Two young children drink from glasses.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1956
Duration: 3 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023855
Newly naturalized Americans recite the Pledge of Allegiance during the 1944 “I Am An American Day” (WWII)

More than a million people attend the “I Am An American Day” citizenship ceremony in Central Park in New York City, during World War 2. Over 150,000 people attended the ceremony as newly naturalized American citizens. Native American Indians in traditional dress and women and men in military uniform attend the ceremony. Flags of various nations are flown. Wounded Army soldiers and wounded Navy sailors arrive as guests of honor. New York City Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia shakes hands with servicemen, giving tribute to their heroism during World War II. Immigrants stand up to recite the Pledge of Allegiance to the United States of America as part of the naturalization ceremony. Speaker recites the Pledge of Allegiance, which predates the inclusion of "under God" which was added later in the 1950s.

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1944, May 21
Duration: 1 min 22 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079913
American home life, focusing on women in Monroe, New York

A documentary titled 'Women and the Community'. Aerial view of city of Monroe New York. A railroad train runs on track carrying commuters. Closeup, from outside, of engineer seen through window of the train. Two men working as City Planners in an office. One is pointing at a region of Monroe on a wall map. Both are looking at the map on the wall. A sanitation worker man dumps garbage into a garbage truck. Postman making deliveries to houses in a neighborhood. Snow is on the ground but cleared from sidewalks and streets. At one house, the mailman knocks on the door and delivers the mail personally to a Mrs. Carter, the occupant. View of Mr. and Mrs. Carter at breakfast table with their two small daughters (depiction is classic family of 1950s with husband and his wife in homemaker or housewife role). Mr. Carter, a lawyer, is reading the morning paper, while Mrs. Carter opens the morning mail that includes a sample ballot for the upcoming local elections. She shares it with her husband. Their oldest girl in the family reaches for the ballot and knocks over her glass of milk, which Mrs. Carter quickly mops up. The postman is seen on his route into the shopping district, View of local grocer placing purchases of a customer in a paper bag. The mailman gives him his mail. He also gives a letter to a Mrs. Brown, who is in the store, shopping. The local dentist meets the mailman as he enters his office, and takes the mail from him. Inside his office, patients are waiting. He gives the mail to his secretary. A Mrs. Gates and her son accompany the dentist into his inner office. An elderly couple collect the mail from their rural outdoor mailbox. The mailman enters the local high school to deliver mail. Inside. students are seen using microscopes in a science lab class. Student, Mary Collins focuses her microscope. The science teacher checks the image in Mary's instrument .As the postman continues his rounds, a bus carrying voters lets them off at Fireman's hall, the local polling place, where they line up, outside. Mrs. Carter is seen in the queue, discussing her sample ballot with others.

Location: Monroe New York USA
Date: 1950
Duration: 5 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032769
City College ' Beavers' defeat Cougars in a basketball game in New York, United States.

Highlights of a basketball game on December 5, 1950, between City College ' Beavers' and ' Cougars ' of Brigham Young University at the Madison Square Garden in New York. Players of the two teams battle it out on the court. City College wins the game 71-69.

Location: New York United States USA
Date: 1950, December 5
Duration: 2 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058712
World Motor Sports car show at Madison Square Garden in New York City; also a modern futuristic kitchen

"Things to come" opens with scenes from the World Motor Sports car show at Madison Square Garden in New York City, United States. Foreign imported and domestic American cars, including many concept cars and futuristic space age cars, are being displayed at the 1950s automobile show. Young women get into cars to get a closer look at the new automobiles. Next scene shows a housewife in a modern, futuristic kitchen with many gadgets. A push button kitchen with an automatic refrigerator and cabinet is seen. The woman homemaker presses a button to raise the counter top height in the kitchen of the future. Woman wearing apron consults a revolving picture board of menus and recipes above the stove. Woman puts toast in hidden toaster recessed in stove top. She waves her hand and a cabinet lowers down containing dishes. A cook presses a button and a rotisserie oven raises up, and its door opens to reveal meat roasting inside.

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1954, January 25
Duration: 1 min 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037715
U.S. Army National Guard troops respond to alert and pick up arms and equipment to commence mission in New York city

An emergency practice training of U.S. Army National Guardmen in the United States. A car drives through streets and arrives at a National Guard Armory. A National Guard soldier, not yet in uniform, gets out of a mid 1950s sedan car and runs into the building, where he and other uniformed National Guardsmen are issued rifles from a rack and depart on their mission. They run up a flight of stairs. They get in jeeps and advance through streets of New York City, near the United Nations building, during a practice training alert. An officer issues instructions and is saluted. A National Guard sentry guards an essential military site.

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1957
Duration: 1 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073578
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