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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 #: MF-22D
Length: 2:17
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
Making Dannon yogurt in Long Island City, New York.
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Clip #: MF-28M
Length: 2:18
Year: 1955
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
Bustling Pier 57 in New York City operated by The Grace Line
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Clip #: TFA-320A
Length: 3:13
Year: 1917
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
Description:
Footage of a tank and US Navy ship during World War 1, including War Correspondent Burton Holmes crawling out of the tank hatch.
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Clip #: TFA-83E
Length: 9:53
Year: 1942
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1940s
Description:
A review of life in our nation's capital operating under the stress of war. Reports on the sudden increase in the city's population during wartime. Shows President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull receiving visiting dignitaries, including Winston Churchill and Vyacheslav Molotov....
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Clip #: TFA-33D
Length: 4:21
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
An airplane trip to New York City in the 1950's
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Clip #: MF-14B-3
Length: :32
Year: 1930
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
Description:
Newsreel about an oil well fire in Texas.
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Clip #: MF-26A-13
Length: 2:18
Year: 1955
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
Family makes a 17 foot cabin cruiser from a kit made by Ladd Built Boats in Stockton, California
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Clip #: AD-37
Length: 19:56
Year: 1930
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1930s
Description:
1930s travelogue of French Line cruise ships, in particular the SS Normandie as it arrives in New York
from Le Havre (possibly on its record-breaking maiden voyage on May 29, 1935). Extensive footage of the
Normandie arriving into the New York Harbor accompanied by an entourage of boats and...
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Clip #: TFA-110A
Length: 8:45
Year: 1947
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
A tour of New York City in 1957.
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