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Clip #: TFA-63A
Length: 10:08
Year: 1946
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
An educational film about Immigration to America. Shows the origins and volume of immigrants entering the United States from colonial times until 1920, the reasons for immigration, the adjustment of immigrants to like in the U.S. and the drastic reduction of immigration caused by the Act of 1924.
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Clip #: TFA-33C
Length: 17:27
Year: 1959
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1950s
Description:
A tour of New York City in 1959
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Clip #: TFA-110B
Length: 9.32
Year: 1939
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1930s
Description:
A tour of the 1939 New York Worlds Fair
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Clip #: TFA-361A
Length: 14:01
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1960s
Description:
An American Airlines promotional film about visiting Arizona.
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Clip #: TFA-331C
Length: 2:55
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
Students learn how to fly gliders in Elmira, New York.
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Clip #: SF-11B
Length: 5:47
Year: 1905
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1900s
Description:
A trip on a Manhattan subway, from 14th Street to old Grand Central Station, filmed May 21, 1905.
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Clip #: TFA-331H
Length: 1:08
Year: 1939
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1930s
Description:
Sailing regatta opens the 1938 season.
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Clip #: TFA-223C
Length: 22:32
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1900s
Description:
Turn of the Century New York City scenes, including arrival of immigrants at Ellis Island, "Twenty-Three Skidoo" outside the Flatiron Building and ice skating on the frozen 59th Street Pond.
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Clip #: MF-14B-8
Length: :32
Year: 1930
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
Description:
Newsreel from 1933 about the foiled kidnapping attempt of the niece of Russell C. Leffingwell, partner of the House of Morgan (J. P. Morgan & Company) and daughter of Franklin K. Batcheller. The would be kidnappers also threatened to blow up Batcheller’s mansion in Yonkers, New York if they...
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Clip #: TFA-89A
Length: 8:46
Year: 1967
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1960s
Description:
An airline promotional film about New York City and its environs in 1967.
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