Sherman Grinberg Film Library
1929 American Royal Livestock Show held in Kansas City, MO
Title card: 'Fat Wins Prize at This Exhibit - Kansas City, MO - Grand prizewinners parade at Midwestern stock show' / livestock owners parade with their cattle during the American Royal Livestock Show / contestants (who attend Kansas...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
US President Harry Truman gives speech at the United Nations in NY City on the UN's 5th Anniversary
Title: 'Free World Hails UN 5th Year' superimposed over UN flag waving on flagpole / title card: 'Through the United Nations, which has overcome the challenge of Korea, the world has its only chance to overcome the challenge of The Bomb'...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Great-grandson of Stonewall Jackson unveils monument to great-grandfather in Charlotte, NC
Title card: 'Lad Unveils A Soldier Tribute, Charlotte, NC - Great grandson acts in ceremony for Gen. Stonewall Jackson' / Thomas Preston, great-grandson of Gen. Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson, and Nancy Palmer Stitt, great-granddaughter of...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Title cards for 1952 GOP convention stories
Title: 'Republican Convention Showdown!' superimposed over silhouette of an elephant, the symbol of the Republican Party [shaky video] / VS title card: 'Republican Convention Showdown' / title card: 'It's Ike!' / Note: exact day not known
Hearst Metrotone News
U.S. sailors relax in a lounge on the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk .
U.S. sailors relax in a lounge on the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk .
Hearst Metrotone News
Factory workers punch their time cards on time clocks.
Factory workers punch their time cards on time clocks.
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Seach continues after French family disappears
The search for a French family who have been missing for nearly two weeks continued Thursday a day after a jogger discovered a national health insurance card belonging to Charlotte Troadec 18
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Eastman high speed motion picture camera captures drone fly in flight
Title cards: 'The Sperry Gyroscope Co., Inc. presents', 'The Flight of a Drone Fly (Eristalis Tenax)', 'Supervised by Dr. C. H. Curran, The American Museum of Natural History', 'High-Speed Photography (3000 pictures per second) by Henry...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Intro to Pathe News retrospective of stories of last 25 years
Title card: 'Pathe News Headlines of 25 Years' / Title card: 'Editor's Note: Here is a stirring record of world events which some of us were privileged to witness ... which future generations will study and treasure ... the priceless...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Preparations for US atomic bomb tests on Eniwetok Atoll in Marshall Islands
Title: 'Eniwetok Atom Bomb Explosions!' superimposed over atom bomb explosion / title card: 'Top-Secret until now, these films remind the world of its choice: an unending fight for peace - or atomic war' / aerial shot of small islands in...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
1933 Penn Relays at Franklin Field in Philadelphia
Title card: '3,000 Track Stars Shine in Penn Relays' / MS runners on their mark at Franklin Field, starting pistol is fired, runners take off / LS tilt down runners running relay race / MS runners run toward camera, Jones of University...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Philadelphia Athletics win World Series
Quick title card: 'Athletics win World Series, Philadelphia - ninth inning rally gives A's 3-2 victory over Chicago in fifth and deciding game' / Pres. Herbert Hoover and First Lady Lou Hoover / intertitle: 'President and Mrs. Hoover see...
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Ex IMF head appears in Spain court over credit card scandal
CLEAN : Ex IMF head appears in Spain court over credit card scandal
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Americans caught between radical left and conservative right politics during the thick of the Great Depression
Title card: 'Editor's Note: The fall elections are more than local in importance. The voters will determine which road we are to take - liberal, conservative, or radical.' / title card: 'America At The Crossroads' / first title card...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Eastman high speed motion picture camera tutorial captures hummingbird in flight
Title cards: 'One Second in the Life of a Hummingbird', 'As seen by the High Speed Motion Picture Camera at the N. Y. Zoological Park', 'by Henry M. Lester' / Typed narrative: 'The flight of a hummingbird, the envy of aeronautical...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Jackie Robinson of the Brooklyn Dodgers, the first African-American baseball player in the major leagues in modern times
QS title card: 'Robinson - 1st Negro Player in Major Leagues' / VS Jackie Robinson signs baseball as police officer looks on; he hands the ball to young boy / VS Robinson catches balls to make outs at first base during exhibition game...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
'Joan of Arc' wins float competition in Asbury Park, NJ
Title card: 'Tots parade in Asbury Pageant - Asbury Park, NJ - Record field of entries vie in 38th annual fete' / little boys and two women pull float featuring a large apple and 'Apple of Our Eye' banner / young people (preschoolers and...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Prizes given at 4th Annual Exhibition of Press Photographers Association in NY City
Title card: 'Press Pix - Prizes Given for Best News Photos' / in gallery in Empire State Building, two women and man look at photographs on wall / Al Smith, former governor of New York, on left standing with man looking at photograph /...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Thomas Edison signs over factory where he made his first electric lamp to Henry Ford for the Ford Museum in Detroit
Title card: 'Ford Gets Home of Electric Lights - Mazdabrook, N.J. - Old Edison Factory Goes to New Museum in Detroit' / MS crowd mingles outside Thomas Edison's Menlo Park Glass House, small old factory where Thomas Edison made his first...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Eastman high speed motion picture camera captures hummingbird in slow motion
CU slo-mo hummingbird flies near feeder at New York Zoological Park, then flies off camera / End card: 'The End'
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Poughkeepsie Regatta on the Hudson, 1929
Title card: 'Columbia wins from 8 crews, Poughkeepsie, NY - Big crowds watch shells in Intercollegiate Regatta' / POV shells far away on Hudson River with telephone pole and resistors in foreground as the race starts / high angle view of...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Explorer Richard E. Byrd, pilot Floyd Bennett, and the 'Josephine Ford' in 1926
Title card: 'In 1926 began a series of daring flights breaking new aerial trails and changing our concept of time and space' / Arctic explorer Richard E. Byrd, at left, stands with pilot Floyd Bennett / Byrd's Fokker airplane, the...