LN 501-003 LN 501-003 1930-1939 B/W si 03.33.50-03.48.50
Chosen Chiho - Documentary on Korea
Various titles in Japanese - Steamship - Japanese ? arrivals - Steam train - Agriculture - paddy fields - harvesting - Water wheel - harvesting cotton - paddy fields - machine processing tobacco ? Town - market - train. Large building and landscaped gardens - water gardens - city streets. Coast - Boat. Open cast mining . Coal mining with pick axes. Various mining shots. Shots of mountainous region - huge writing in Korean carved into mountain. Coastline rocky formations - Hydro electric dam ? Power lines - pan over power stations - oil refinery - forest area - felling trees - logging on river - Junks on river. Railway tracks - iron bridge over river - train passes over bridge. Top shot port.
Beware - Japanese titles in vision intermittently throughout. Info from NARA says significant geographical locations include Pusan, Taegu, Seoul, Inchon and the Yalu river.

LN 050-002 LN 050-002 1903 b/w Si 02.01.18
02.02.51 Panorama Waterfront and Brooklyn Bridge from East River
tracking shot from boat going down the East river to Brooklyn Bridge. Docks, steamships and sailboats.

LN 050-002 LN 050-002 1903 b/w Si 02.04.00
02.07.28 Sky Scrapers of New York City, From the North River
Tracking shot from boat going down North River. New York skyline, buildings, bridges seen from the waterfront. Railroad and steamship docks. Large buildings behind waterfront dock can be seen clearly.

LN 050-003 LN 050-003 1899 b/w Si 03.52.07
03.52.52 Pilot Boats in New York Harbor
A Marconi-rigged schooner of pilot boat hull-design passes in front of the camera. Four crew members are visible aboard. In its trail is a single-masted steamship of approx. 5,000 tons.

LN 050-007 LN 050-007 1897 b/w Si 03.29.46
03.30.13 Loading Baggage for Klondike, No 6
copyright 25.10.1897
Robert K. Bonine (?).
Loading steamship ' Williamette", Seattle, Washington.
Looks like S.S. Queen.
A man boards and people walk along docks. A horse-drawn coach pulls past the camera with lettering which reads ' Rainier Grand hotel".
Duplicate on 220185 Use 220538 best quality

LN 050-030B LN 050-030B 1898 B/W SIL 02.34.51
02.35.25 Canton Steamboat Landing Chinese Passengers
Ship visible behind as many Chinese come off and move right to left. Many carry belongings.

220453 1929 b/w Si 23.31.50
23.48.38 Foreign travel in the US Army
Two US military visiting sights around the world.
Pan across ship. Military men watch. War ship with cannons, flags flying. On deck of ship with planes, navy and civilians on bridge. Car drops two rangers in town. Traffic on wide emptyish avenue, church, tram lines. View of sea from shore. Waves crashing on rocks, two rangers watch sea. At port looking at sailing ships. Pan over city view seen from height, Europe?
Dragon - like festival mask in South East Asia paraded, men drumming. Statue of military in park. Large building with cars in front. By sea on beach. Extraction machinery by river, various ships. Military men look at plaque outside building. Walk into big church. Along walk path. Stop to wipe sweat on brow in street. Along palm tree-lined plaza with large building at back. Amidst trees, on small stone bridge. Picking bananas on market stall. Advert for beer in Spanish. City street with traffic. Ship on water. Waterfront with buildings. Warship at dock. View from sea, steamboat in distance. Sailboat. Out of car outside city. Sign about the Gjoa Expedition (Amundsen). Seagulls. Sea front wild landscape.
Large ship at dock steaming. Chimney blowing steam, then ship at sea.

LN 050-008 LN 050-008 1898 b/w Si 04.19.02
04.20.59 Troop Ships for the Philippines
copyright 22.06.1898
Edison
From the dock, we see a 5,000 tons steel-hulled vessel departing, passengers waving, name of ship "Australia" readable on bow.
From another camera position, steam ship leaves harbour through the Golden Gate (?), passengers waving, escorted by two medium-sized tugs.
Spanish - American War

LN 901-001 LN 901-001 1945 Col Si 17:26:10
17.36:26 Ganossu Airfield and Fukouka Japan at end of WWII.
AmericanB-17 planes parked on muddy airfield. Nose art Your Gal. Wrecked Japanese aircraft on field. American plane takes off. Various shots scrap Japanese aircraft including interiors cockpits. 2nd October Scenes around dock area Damaged buildings - piles of Japanese helmets by docks. US soldiers walk along 06.27.48 Military personnel including Australians standing outside building - refugees civilians and military along street. 06.29.15 5/Oct. Koreans gathered on docks. 06.29.32 Scenes of Miss Ellen Berney talking to Japanese soldier - acts as interpreter for Sgt Paul Sturbes. Train pulls out of railway station. 06.29.50 Steam Ship loaded with Japanese returning from Korea. 06.31.12 US soldiers enter building. Troops 1st Battalion 38th march along road towards Fukuoka Town - Japanese tanks parked along roadside. 06.32.42 Scrap planes on Ganossu air field - planes destroyed by Typhoon. Scrap metal . Crowd assembled outside building. Young male Japanese do physical training in open air ( callisthenics ).

LN 501-069 LN 501-069 1930's B/W Sd 14.43.28
14.44.26 Spanish Civil War - Russian Steam ship attacked
Russian steamer Suyuz Vodnikov - damage to ship. Captain and crew given heroes welcome on return to Russia - given bouquets of flowers. More shots of damage.
Can 001 220658 1900s B/W SIL 02:00:00 - 02:05:27 New orleans, early 1900's.
Harbour and docks scenes - steam ships - Cansfjord unloading at dock
02:02:02 housing and shops; street scenes
02:02:30 pleasure gardens - boating lake and swans.
02:03:20 Strange game played with sticks by boys in park - sort of hockey. Good street scenes poor area - children playing in yard - trams. Busy shopping area - well dressed pedestrians.

LN 501-225 220691 1914 - 1918 - 1920s? B/W SIL 03:20:02 - 03:35:17
World War One - Two reels
Belgium ? - King Albert & Foch at Mercier funeral. Very large parade through streets for funeral ceremony
03:22:30 Unidentified Industrial conference - Probably Baruch and the War Industries board meeting. Long shots of all individuals - arrivals and departures.
03:26:09 Snowy Washington DC. Men shovelling snow - Capitol in background. Good shot White House in snow - Lincoln Memorial with sleighs - kids on toboggans.
03:26:57 Lord French reviews London volunteers. Troops march past - Lord French on horseback.
03:27:46 Wilhelmshaven bridge, shots from boat as approaching .
03:28:18 Nurse Edith Cavell - coffin carried out and put on gun carriage / caisson. Procession. Mourners
03:29:08 England - Cavell funeral procession - sailors with wreaths - nurses and other services in procession. Coffin on gun carriage. Coffin transferred to ship to be transported to Norfolk.
03:30:37 Alfred von Tirpitz at military ceremony. U-boat U-35 at sea, waves crashing over bows. Surface torpedo tube. Steam Ship hit and sinking. Sailing ship like galleon sinking.
03:32:30 Unknown date - Heligoland fortress. Various shots big guns - dismantling gun emplacements. Sea defences. Top shot island. Man sitting on barrel of gun.

LN 050-021 LN 050-021 1905 b/w Si 17.41.01
17.47.53 Peace Envoys at Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Tracking shot sea. Pan over ship in harbour and small boats around. Large elaborate sailing ship w/ US flag on stern. Small steam boat with US flag arrives alongside large ship and delegates board. Delegates leaving in same boat.
17.44.40: marching band leading parade of troops with rifles on shoulder, crowd watching. Open car followed by horse-drawn carriages with VIPs. Car leaving front of hotel (?), crowd watching, another car arrives, VIPs get in and departs. Horse drawn coach passes. Photographers run as Japanese delegates leave hotel.

LN 501-059 LN 501-059 1945 ? Col Sd 02.00.00
02.09.33 Hannibal Victory - Cargo Ship - - Merchant Navy
Mississippi River with paddle steam boat - hooters blow
02.01.46 Steam train crossing river bridge. Hannibal, Missouri - statue of Mark Twain. Statue Huckleberry Fin and Tom Sawyer. Good street scenes with traffic, cars and policeman on motorbike. Pedestrians. Top shots railway yards and storage depot of RR freight car wheels. Close up wheels.
02.03.40 Animated map. Loading RR wheels and axles onto ship in San Francisco docks. Wide shots port of San Francisco - cargo loaded. Merchant seaman cleaning brass plate of Hannibal Victory ship.
02.05.12 Loading railroad locomotives, coal tenders, and railroad wheels and axles using 100 ton crane. Shots of stevedores securing cargo on decks.
02.08.07 Couple, Chief and wife walking down street - Golden Gate Bridge in background
02.08.27 Laying tarpaulins over cargo. Couple walking towards docks. Stevedores. Couple say goodbye.

220452 1921 b/w Si 22.03.30
22.13.11 New York City
Map of NYC and surrounding area, Manhattan, New Jersey, Bronx, Brooklyn.
Statue of Liberty. NY waterfront with steam boat. Various views bridges, with steam boats passing under, with cars. Couple on top of Woolworth Building. Financial district, Wall Street with flags, pan up buildings. Tall buildings with smoke out of chimneys. Skyscrapers along lower broadway with dirigible flying past. Lower Broadway panning up from street. City Hall. Post Office on Eighth Avenue. Flat-iron building. Fifth Avenue top shots, many cars, buses, pedestrians. One horse-drawn carriage. Public Library Fifth Avenue at Forty-Second Street. Central Park lake with people on small boats, bridge, people sitting on grass. Obelisk in Central Park. Riverside Drive with traffic and pedestrians by Hudson River, various views. Tomb of General Grant. Lower East Side busy street. Ghetto, women buying at mobile stall, CU people walk past camera in front of stall with apples, women in shawls. Carrying huge US flag down wide avenue.

LN 501-195 LN 501-195 1906 + ? B/W SIL 02.05.30
02.16.01 Athletics: Rowing & Ice Skating
Men carry racing scull out of building, fit oar by water edge, 8 men and coxswain. 2 boats racing followed by motor boat. Men put boats into water from shoulders, one wearing H. Judges boat with US flag. Rowing past camera & POV from motorboat. Men hoist boat out of water & into storage house. Lined up for race & rowing away. 3 story stone church tower behind & steam boats following. View from bridge as they come under; go away. View from water level of spectators in rowboats & pan of crowd across river as rowers cross finish line. Boats brought out of water. Much activity.
02.10.24 Ice skating race & skaters watched from center of ice. Benches & snow piled on side. LS of people watching from grandstand & racers jumping hurdles.
02.12.14 Sprint and track events. Relay. Sack race - obstacle race -
12.14.28 Royal arrivals for 1906 games - hurdles and long jump event

181940 1946 ? B/W Si 02.40.28-02.44.48
Miners w/ lamps in room panned over. Electric underground mining train past camera. Ext. of mine train w/ cars dumped. Train out of mine entrance past camera. Loading coal into RR cars. POV from RR car. Man chalks work date on building. Steam engines pulling string of coal cars. High angle of Pittsburgh, bridges & haze; chimneys putting out smoke w/ hills behind. Electric train re-entering mine
181940 Relates to Beta

182749 + 181544 c 1916 B/W si 14.31.35
Henry Ford & John Burroughs looking at working steam engine & talk. Standing outside shed while man is working on engine running inside. (13:31:58) RR engine facing camera; men looking at it. Ford in cab & standing beside w/ engineer & ?? Men ride past camera on front of engine with Ford at controls. 13:32:50 woman feeding chickens in front of Model T. Cat hisses at dog, dog chases cat. Woman feeding dog after making him beg (Mrs Ford?) 13:33:59 Burroughs laying stone on wall as others come up. Women carrying kids. All well dressed. Everyone watches Burroughs.

LN 501-035 220364 1940's B/W si 00.43.19- 00.47.38
Miners w/ lamps in room panned over.
Electric underground mining train past camera. Ext. of mine train w/ cars dumped. Train out of mine entrance past camera. Loading coal into RR cars. POV from RR car. Man chalks work date on building. Steam engines pulling string of coal cars. High angle of Pittsburgh, bridges & haze; chimneys putting out smoke w/ hills behind. Electric train re-entering mine

220351 220351 1930's b/w Sd 01.15.30-01.43.15
Wheels a Rolling - A Pageant / Play with music.
Probably for Chicago World's Fair. Slightly surreal as historical pageant is acted out in front of large concrete blocks.
Short sequence showing train transportation.
Pageant showing history of transportation - Starts with American Indian in head dress singing - smoke signals - Indians walking along with horses, carrying canoes. Re-enactment of missionaries reaching Lake Michigan. Various steam engines in pageant - George Stephenson's Rocket steam engine - Steam Engine The John Bull. First railway train - the Best Friend of Charleston - built 1829 - passengers in period clothes. Dewitt Clinton engine - carriages are stage coaches on rails.
01.21.07 Tom Thumb engine ( 1821) designed by Peter Cooper. Race between Tom Thumb and horse drawn coach. Horse wins. The Atlantic Engine ( 1832 ) last of the upright steam engines. Gag as guard helps woman into coach showing bloomers - " Early 1840's " firemen and citizens using water pump as they fear Chicago about to be engulfed by fire - turns out to be smoke from Baldwin built locomotive The Pioneer. Train passes slowly, waving people. " 1849 " and the Gold rush - covered wagons and horses recreate trek West includes death on the trail. " 1859 " Wells Fargo coach and horses - pony express - recreation on coach being held up . " 1861 " " Abraham Lincoln" speaking on leaving Chicago gets into horse and carriage.
01.29.50 American civil war - shots of injured soldiers limping along. Train bringing body of Lincoln moves slowly. " 1856 " representation of RR going west - Cowboy and Indian fights. " 1869 " Last rail link across America - Golden spike hammered in as Union Pacific line is completed.
01.33.06 Steam engine and train of the Santa Fe Railway - refreshment provisions include the "Harvey Girls" dressed as waitresses sing Beautiful Dreamer . Frontier town cowboys - Can Can girls. Minnetonka Steam engine and train. 01.35.10 Farmers and wives on hay wagon - train of the Burlington Line bringing farmers and immigrants to Mid West. Dancing - Hoe down - folk dancing. 01.38.03 " 1890's " Horse cars and trams - cable car. Horse drawn fire engines speeds past. Early bicycles and tandems. Dancing fashion show. Famous 999 steam engine - series of shots showing early forms of transport - cars - automobiles - gag policeman with drunk. Racing car - fire engine - more gags with policeman and drunk. " 1934" Diesel engine passenger service. Cast of pageant make map of American showing advancement of transportation. Diesel train along track.

220352 220352 1940's Late col Sd 03.00.55
03.27.47 Meeting The Challenge
False start - beware timecodes repeated.
Development of transportation
Covered horse drawn wagon of pioneers through fields. Tom Thumb steam engine - crosses bridge. Bullet steam engine - goods train takes on barrels of flour - Mount Clare station. Map pinpointing Ohio River and Baltimore. Animated map showing routes of Baltimore and Ohio RR. Industry - smoking chimneys - factories - mines - agriculture and farming. City street scenes - shopping - women. Baltimore and Ohio train. Coal in railway wagons - mine. 03.04.01 Coal strip mining - loaded into trucks and RR carts. Steam train pulling many hopper cars filled with coal - locomotive pushing wagons up hill. Docks - coal transferred to ships by conveyor belt. Cargo ship leaving dock. Iron ore transfered from Cargo ship to train. Limestone in trucks. Chimneys of steel works - exterior furnaces. Baltimore and Ohio goods train loaded with steel.
03.08.43 Industrial output moved by rail - steel pipes - petroleum - oil - lumber - paper mill - sand. Liquid latex piped into goods train. Various exteriors manufacturing plant. Interior Baltimore and Ohio RR Industrial development department - pages of report turned. Various exteriors industrial plants. Agriculture - farming - tractors - spraying - soil tested. Horse drawn plough. Cattle - Bulls exercised on wheel - cow and calf in field. Longhorn cows. Milk Industry - churns on truck taken to railway station - transportation of livestock - cattle wagons. Refrigerated rail cars. Terminal facilities - Freight cars. Freight cars " humped " or graded. Grain elevator - Top shot terminal next to docks for import and exports. Dock scenes.
03.14.49 Rochester - Ferries transporting freight cars across Lake Ontario to Canada. Radio telephone communication between tug boats and shore. Unloading freight cars - lorries transport goods. Various shots Steam and deisel locomotives - signal systems - interior signal box rail man switching.
03.16.40 Maintenance and cleaning of trains. Top shot Mount Clare RR shop. Various shots locos. Various shots railway workers. 03.18.36 Office building of RR - interiors office workers - teleprinters - punchcard machines. Sentinel Service offices - businessmen with report - pages turned. Intercut freight being moved with offices showing progress of shipment. 03.20.26 Passenger train pulls into station - passengers board - ticket offices. "The Royal Blue" train. Shot over Baltimore - Mount Royal Station - New York, passengers off train for transport by ferry across Hudson. Various short shots New York hotels and streets. 03.21.54 Washington - Diesel engines - shot from train as passes through Potomac Valley - train driver. Cumberland - train tracks divide - Union Station Cincinatti - St Louis - Pittsburgh, shot over city of skyscrapers - Street scene Akron with trams - Chicago Grand Central Terminal. Various intercut shot different trains. Passengers boarding and disembarking from trains - interiors passenger cars - interior Royal Blue with stewardess making train radio telephone call - food - snack, buffet and dining cars. Food loaded , prepared and served.
Various shots from observation car. Hostess makes announcement re points of interest - Harpers Ferry. more interiors of train - arrival boards at station all saying " On Time " . Short shots various trains.

220352 220352 1954 - 1958 col Sd 03.28.17
03.51.32 East of Roanoke Chapter 1 - Norfolk and Western steam locomotives 1958
Y6 2-8-8-2 crosses Potomac River - shots steam train towards and past.
At Shenandoah Junction - Train up and past- goods train travelling in opposite direction. RR trucks B + O line. LS steam train making steam towards and past camera.
Hagerstown Bound - Mixed Train - up and past
Greasing a Y6 - Stationary locomotive - man with grease gun.
Up Blue Ridge - Train making slow progress up incline - freight cars - Engines both ends doing push and pull.
Helper siding - steam engine into siding - makes huge amounts of white steam.
Drive beside the Y6 helper - travel shot following rear engine of the push and pull exercise - close ups wheels and tracks.
Filmed near Crewe Va. - Various trains up and past
Leased ACL E1 - Notice crew picking orders - Deisel passenger train up and past
Newest N & W Motive Power - Deisel locomotive passenger train up and past - other trains
Filmed near Petersburg Va. - Steam trains up and past both directions
1238's last moments in steam - Steam engine out of and backing into siding.
Filmed by RA-Fs Recording teams
Excellent sound effects throughout of trains - hooters etc.

220353 220353 1940's late / 50's B/w Sd 05.45.25
05.57.24 Railroads on Parade - Right of Way U.S.A.
Diesel train over bridge - farmland - timber - minerals - dam. Industrial shots - interior car factory - cars on production line. Station wagon pulling up in front of house, interior family having dinner. Military review, marching troops - Naval ships, Navy marching - Marines marching - B-52 aircraft take off. Tanks transported by rail on flatbed cars - short shots mine - factories. Freight train. Aircraft fuselages in hangar - B-52 taxiis. Diesel train over bridge - various shots different trains. CU wheel on rail.
05.49.34 Steam train pulling freight. Various short shots showing raw material production - mines - farms - street scenes town and cities. Interior dining car - snow plough - interior superdome car. Various different trains
05.51.55 RR uses in defence. Loading military vehicles - interior sleeping car carrying military personnel - mobilisation of troops for Korea - induction centre - basic training - air force and navy.
05.53.20 Freight cars - short shot troops boarding train. Military equipment moved by rail. Docks - loading tanks. Troops out of train and embarking on transport ships. Ship leaving harbour. Marines doing rifle drill. Various shots trains. Flashbacks to early steam engines - Washington monuments. Various shots trains and transport of military vehicles.

220379 220379 B/w Sd 07.47.15
08.05.50 New York Central System presents The Steam Locomotive
Steam loco towards camera - various shots trains up and past. Giant Hudson type steam train up and past, developed in 1927.
07.48.30 Shots of stationary train and details of engine. Film explains how a steam engine works. Details of various working parts.
07.52.52 Tender - details showing how coal is transported from tender to engine.
07.54.02 Long line of steam engines making steam. Engines serviced - good CU wheels. Trains cleaned and scrubbed. Water tested for scale formation. Engine on turntable and into round house. Engineers carry out servicing - heavy machiery - welding. Moving wheels. Inspection and calibration of valve graph which is recording apparatus which gives graphic picture of locomotives peformance. Needles trace lines on paper roll making chart of speed and efficiency.
Breakage reports - testing for unseen cracks with electronic equipment.
08.01.15 Terminal foreman in office. Engines moving out of shed to ready platform - on turntable. Taking on fuel and water. Train along track. CU train parts as waiting on ready track. Interior cab with driver. Train along tracks.

LN 501-067 LN 501-067 1942 Si 10.49.00
10.55.53 WWII - Pearl Harbor Salvage Work on USS West Virginia
POV past Railway steam engine, through steel poles criss-crossed. Pearl Harbor with ships, sign that air raid alarm to be tested. On board battleship USS West Virginia, men working under large guns. Salvage work, diver out of water. Pumping out water. CU of overturned hull of USS Oklahoma, men working on parts, winching pipes out of water.

220463 220463 1921 / 1941 b/w Si 09.45.20
10.00.44 Below White Top
Documentary: On the Lutheran Church's home missions in southern Appalachia.
Reel 1: Traces the poverty area's nineteenth century history. A Lutheran minister counters the residents' bias against education and advocates it as an eventual cure for area problems.
Shows growth of Lutheran churches and schools in Virginia, in 1921.
Mountain home / shack - family on porch with dog - young man making fiddle. Mountain range, rivers. Steam train through mountains - family wave as train passes. Good shots steam engine and wheels, train over viaduct. Digger excavating. Car along road. Two men using double saw to fell tree. Logging - wood cutting. Factory / industry comes to the area. Old time Minister holding outdoor meeting title " The Bible is enough salvation! Book larnin' is the Devil's tool" Minister with bible. Industrial shots - destroyed forests, tree stumps. Unemployed men, family in poverty. Minister. Title " 1910 - A Ray of Hope Glimmers in a mountain cove " Shots water wheel - man walking into building, sign Coan Ground - K.G. Killinger. Interior man with sack of corn ground into flour. CU pamphlet - The Augsburg Sunday School Teacher. Man leaves with sack and pamphlet. Miller stands by door. Mother hitting teenage son on backside with piece of wood. Young boys in woods drinking liquor. Miller with family. Miller with sick old lady . Title re millers dreams becoming reality. Sign Kenneth G. Killinger - The Mountain Missionary of the Lutheran Synod of Virginia. Marion, Virginia July 24th 1921. Luteran minister holds open air meeting - meeting held in progressively bigger places including hut and railway carriage. Finally a real church - interior - children singing. Exterior people leaving church. Mountain still - minister visits moonshiner - montage shots " conversions " to religion. and work as visiting minister. Map showing growth of missions.

180049 1899 - 1910 B/W Si 00.04.30
00.06.56 Early New York Scenes
Street scenes - trams - sign on one " Greene & Gates Avs " - horse drawn carriages. Another tram " Fulton Street " Tram terminus. Overhead railway.
00.05.30 RR platform - passengers entering. Train up and past - reversing steam engine. Train leaving station. Train pulling into station

SN 099-001 SN 099-001 1927 b/w Si 01.00.38
01.10.43 Banana Plantations
Turning globe " Member Amateur Cinema League, The World Wide Organization of amateur movie makers"
Title : Banana Handling Tela - shot building and landscape from boat.
Title : Fruit Cutting Progreso District Farm 9 Dec 2, 1927 . Natives with donkeys - locals cutting bananas from trees. Donkeys loaded with fruit. Plantation owner ? Locals take fruit from donkeys and hang in sheds.
01.03.49 Title Fruit Loading Progreso District Farm 10 - bananas loaded in steam train freight wagons - steam engine. Overseer watching loading - freight train twoards camers.
01.07.05 Title :Banana Trains in yard at Tela - pan round freight wagons.
01.07.30 Pier from Tela - Cargo ship tied up - Loading SS Turrialba - machinery manoeuvred into place - natives carrying bananas on backs to conveyor belt - fruit loaded onto ship. Overseer taking samples .

SN 099-001 SN 099-001 1929 b/w Si 01.10.50
01.22.00 Banana Research
Title - Tropics, where the Bananas grow - Plantation house and landscape from boat. Engineers office in plantation - Researchers sitting on narrow gauge railway hand-cart ? going to see plantation. Soil sampling. Tractor clearing area for cultivatiion. Banana palms. Harvesting fruit. Donkeys loaded with Bananas - loaded into freight car - Steam engine arrives. Cargo boat at pier. Research scientists taking samples.
01.13.33 Freight cars arrive - bananas loaded onto ship by conveyoy belt. POV from ship sailing - sea.
01.14.18 Boston - ship in harbour - on board activity.
01.14.48 Research laboratory at Boston - experimental ripening rooms - fruit hanging - guage. Stems cut up for tests in respiration chambers, which is really a glass jar. Jar connected to machine which collects gas given off for analysis. Chemical lab - bananas tested. Sugar determination experiment. Biological lab - scientist at microscope - experiments using microtome.

LN 501-145 220594 1940's B/W Si 03.20.29
03.21.13 RR Freight Yards
Pan over stationary freight cars. Steam engine. Freight in and out.

LN 501-147 220603 1933 b/w Sd 11.36.10
11.45.27 Paris on Parade
Eiffel Tower from the Seine. Tracking shot from elevated railway - over bridge. Train through tunnel. Street scenes - tram and cars at Arc de Triomphe. Car with large dog in passenger seat. Street scenes with traffic / cars. Top shot square with Bon Marche. Bourse / Stock Exchange exterior and brief interior. Pedestrians and street markets. Men queue at public toilet. Policeman on point / traffic duty. Eiffel Tower from underneath.
11.38.18 Family in park - boating lake - children in goat trap - horse riders - couple walking dog - nanny with pram. Women walking dogs. Old quarter - street cafe - street artist - brief interior naked model poses for sculpture class. Alleyways - tramps go through garbage - man with goats down ally - gypsy fortune teller carrying baby. Cafe sign Dome - Street cafe - woman smoking. Two tramps drinking from bottle. Cafe scenes.
11.40.13 Seine - passenger boats - men washing in gutter. Rooftops. Street art gallery. Fountains - City as sun sets. Night shots - neon lights - Le Berry department store - Moulin Rouge Cinema - Folies Bergere - brief interiors. Various other nightclubs exteriors and interiors - floor shows - chorus girls - drinking - dancing.
11.43.29 Sewers ? People sleeping rough. Dawn - empty streets - street sweeper - bakers delivery. Market setting up - flower seller - postman - children off to school - traffic.
11.44.42 Clock showing 9am at terminal for SS Ile de France. Steam train - passengers on station. Excellent shot of steam engine leaving RR station.

220413 220413 1952 b/w Sd 04.52.32
05.00.23 Steam Locomotives in Action at Sherman Hill on the Union Pacific
Steam freight train up and past. Challenger type locomotive nearing Sherman, eastbound from Laramie. Santa Fe Loco helping loco up to Sherman westbound from Cheyenne yard. Steam engine returning to Cheyenne. Deisel up and past. Steam train with helper through Granite Canyon. Passenger Train over Sherman summit. Steam train leaving Sherman for Laramie. Deisel train. Eastbound mail train

LN 501-166 LN 501-166 1920's B/W SIL 03.14.25
03.20.46 [Iron And Steel]
Pig iron remelted in open hearth furnace; 80 tons into ladle, hoisted, casting into ingots. Ingots pushed by steam engine, ingot lifted & moved while white hot; ingot into rollers & changed into long bar. Man moves it, then rolled into thin rod as men watch. Moving rod into drawing machine w/ tongs. immigrant worker tending machine. Map of Great Lakes. Pittsburg mills, river, railroad. Brooklyn Bridge & Williamsburg Bridge. Tilt up skyscrapers.

220270 220622 1934 B/W SIL 22.32.31
22.33.00 Steam engine pulling electric locomotives past delivering them.
See 220622 - best quality

LN 050-007 LN 050-007 1897 b/w Si 03.32.40
03.33.05 Fast Mail, Northern Pacific R.R.
copyright 06.12.1897
Edison
Steam locomotive approaches pulling baggage car and six passenger cars, obscuring a sign reading 'Fast Mail, Northern Pacific". Bystanders wave.

LN 050-008 LN 050-008 1898 b/w Si 04.00.37
04.01.27 Going Through the Tunnel
copyright 24.02.1898
Edison
Camera on front part of the train tracks forward and shows cars moving through the switchyard, alongside some freight cars, and into a tunnel.
Outside the tunnel, two people run off the track as the camera approaches. The train stops to let a steam locomotive with three passenger cars through. Signal man on the tracks. Train moves again.

LN 050-017 LN 050-017 1898 b/w Si 13.35.47
13.36.18
Observation Train Following Parade
date uncertain
Large group of people sitting on fences and roof tops along railway track. Steam locomotive and five freight cars with one caboose on railroad. train starts to move.
Spanish - American War. New York City Welcome to Admiral Sampson's Fleet after the Battle of Santiago Bay

220387 220387 B/W Sd 19.01.05
19.08.56 Steam Locomotives in Action On the Baltimore and Ohio

220387 220387 B/W Sd 19.09.00
19.17.32 Steam Locomotives in Action On the Delaware and Hudson

220387 220387 B/W Sd 19.49.49
19.54.20 Farewell to Steam - Feb 6th 1955 the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway ran the last train on the Los Angeles Division to be pulled by a steam locomotive.

220385 220385 1940's B/W Sd 16.49.55
16.58.30 Steam Locomotives in Action on the East Broad Top

220382 220382 1950's B/W Sd 11.01.00
11.08.45 Steam Locomotives in action on the Pennsylvania Railway near Horseshoe curve 1951 - 1953
Various shots trains including one 1921 vintage pulling coal. Good shots steam and natural sound effects. Various freight RR. Washington Express. Various passenger train

LN 050-007 LN 050-007 1897 b/w Si 03.30.21
03.30.47 S.S "Queen' Leaving Dock
copyright 25.10.1897
Edison
Steamship with crowds of passengers on deck slowly moves out of frame

LN 050-007 LN 050-007 1897 b/w Si 03.31.32
03.31.57 S.S. "Williamette' Leaving for Klondike
copyright 25.10.1897
Edison, Robert K. Bonine
Over the heads of the crowd on dock, a steamship departs.

LN 050-007 LN 050-007 1897 b/w Si 03.40.40
03.41.03 S.S. 'Coptic" In The Harbour
Copyrighted 25.10.1897
Edison
Crowd on the dock mills about as large steamship moves on water in the distance.

LN 050-008 LN 050-008 1898 b/w Si 04.21.07
04.21.41 Roosevelt's Rough Riders Embarking for Santiago
copyright 22.06.1898
Edison
Soldiers in Spanish - American War uniforms, moving boxes towards a steamship on the dock.

LN 050-008 LN 050-008 1899 b/w Si 04.40.41
04.41.25 Pilot Boats in New York Harbor
Edison
copyrighted 22.04.1899
Two masted Marconi rigged schooner with signal flags sails by camera boat.
Another steamship moves by with signal flags.

3N-005 220408 1927 b/w Si 01.59.05
02.04.32 The Mississippi River Flood of 1927
Raging water with farm buildings behind seen from levee near break. Soldier patrolling. POV past submerged houses, barns & trees. people marooned on levees with animals & goods. People in RR car and on barges to stay above water. OUtboard boat pushing barge with horses. Hoover & Red Cross. Blacks moving cars of army cots & loading trains with crates. Baton Rouge levee reinforced with sandbags et. Moving cattle down street & barging off. Army moving boat into water for rescue work & loaded with people and others following. Mules off barges. People moving out by boat. Paddle wheel boat pushing barge; amphibious plane over. Man rows to woman on roof. Coast Guard boat & rescued people. POV from boat on Mississippi. US Coastguguard boat with rescued people. CU mother and daughter. Paddle Boat load of rescued cattle. Paddle steamship USS Inspector on river between Vicksburg and Baton Rouge. Boats searching for marooned victims - past submerged houses.

3N-005 220408 1927 b/w Si 02.05.55
02.09.13 The Mississippi River Flood of 1927
Secretary Hoover and Sec. of War Davis at Vicksburg on tour of flooded areas. With them are Jasper Feiser acting Chairman of Red Cross and others. Group standing on porch of house. LS Sea-plane takes off from river. POV from steamship travelling towards Baton Rouge - Sec. Davis on deck looking at disaster. Group on deck - tracking shot during journey from Vicksburg to Natchez past submerged houses.
02.06.15 Official party at Camp Natchez. People displaced by flood - children outside tents with members of official party. Old black woman smoking pipe meets officials
02.06.45 Mass of tents at Baton Rouge. Registering names of refugees. Medical aid - mass vaccination.
02.07.18 Camp kitchen - white families eating in large tent. Black families eating in open air. Children in queue for baby bottles / milk. Lovely shots kids. Washing clothes in tubs. Major Schneider inspecting tents of the homeless ( out of rack )

WC 4036 220679 1914 - 1918 B/W SIL 15:00:12 - 15:10:52
WWI - Deutscher U-Boot auf Kaperfahrt 1914-1918
Partly or wholly staged documentary of Ger. sub / U-boat cruise during World War I,
Submarine loads up on torpedoes and supplies and crew comes aboard, sub puts out to sea waved off by German sailors. German fleet in harbour. U-boat on surface, men in lookout tower. Three masted ship hit by submarine - men rescued and taken to sub before ship sinks. U-boat underway, brief shot interior engine room. U-boat submerges. Interior man looking through periscope. Torpedo into tube. Steamship underway . Torpedo launched. Ship sinking. Ship firing guns, depth charge? Sub underway. Surface launch torpedo tube. Ship sinking.
15:09:39 British Q-boat - submarine submerges. Ship sinking. Ships log. Sub at sea.
WC 4108 220681 1914 - 1918 B/W SD 17:16:40 - 17:23:55 WWI News Excerpts
Italian boats patrol Austrian coast, ships engage shore batteries. French naval steamships ships join British squadron for Dardanelles attack. German submarine periscope sighted - deck guns fire at subs, depth charges dropped. British and French warships shell coastline
17:18:40 German fleet - British ships, close-ups of guns; Fight off Jutland, ships sinking, torpedoes; King George V visits British naval fleet.
17:20:28 Italian torpedo boats sinking Austrian battleship St. Stephen, with sailors clinging to decks, awaiting order to abandon ship, which were never given. Men in water as ship sinks
17:22:07 French air aces decorated; King Albert of the Belgians taken for flight over German lines by pilot Nungesser. King Alfonso of Spain with early aviators. Baron von Richthofen with other pilots. Bi-planes in flight. Captain Guynemer being decorated. Quentin Roosevelt in uniform - Grave of Quentin Roosevelt.

LN 501-225 220691 1914 - 1918 B/W SIL 03:41:47 - 03:50:04
Fighting for the Fatherland R7 part 1
Submarine warfare - sailing ship sinking. U-boat on surface underway,steamship sinking - sub underway. Interior, Captain using periscope - allied ships seen through periscope, u-boat submerges, allied ships firing big guns, torpedo seen just under surface
03:45:31 Lusitania - liner leaving dock, crowds waving, name Lusitania seen on side of ship. Scenes on board Lusitania - deck games (grainy) Re-creation, panic as Lusitania is hit. Heavy seas - wreckage on shores of Ireland. Survivors?
03:47:44 Lemberg - crowds line streets and throw flowers into cars. Religious man speaking to army officer?
03:48:27 Russian revolution - crowds on streets - demonstrations - Tsar's army lay down their weapons. Russian troops walking through town.

LN 501-241 220715 1916 B/W SIL 16:13:40 - 16:17:02 Santa Catalina Island
Map showing proximity of island and route of ferry boats. People boarding ship. Captain of Steamship Cabrillo rings bell. Shot from ship as leaving Los Angeles harbour - track along dockside - freight trains - timber yards -
16:15:32 Lighthouse on breakwater . Ship coming into dock on Santa Catalina, Hotel Stamford at end of dock. Shots from shore of steamship docking at Avalon on Santa Catalina. Passengers / tourists coming ashore.