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CU PLAQUE: "IN MEMORY OF BETSY ROSS WHO MADE IN THIS HOUSE THE FIRST AMERICAN FLAG"
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MS BUILDING FLYING AMERICAN FLAG WITH CIRCULAR 13 STARS ORIGINAL COLONIES EARLY FLAG
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00:01:58 26.17 |
CU PLAQUE " ABRAHAM LINCOLN STOOD HERE WHEN HE RAISED THE FLAG ON INDEPENDENCE HALL 2/22/1861"
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00:02:04 31.17 |
LS INDEPENDENCE HALL PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA
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00:02:13 40.17 |
LOW ANGLE STATUE OF WILLIAM PENN
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00:02:48 76.17 |
STREETS OF PHILADELPHIA CIRCA 1926, MAN WALKING UP FROM SUBWAY. STREETCARS, HORSE & CARRIAGE, VARIOUS MODES OF URBAN TRANSPORTATION. MAN WALKING DOWN STREET FOLLOWS OLD MAN FROM HIS CAR INTO BUILDING
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00:03:09 96.17 |
TWO MEN WALKING SIDE BY SIDE WITH WALKING CANES.
IN OFFICE BUILDING HALLWAY, GO INTO SEPARATE OFFICES, "VICE PRESIDENT IN CHARGE OF OPERATION" |
00:03:25 112.17 |
CU ELDERLY MAN IN TOP HAT & CARNATION IN LAPEL GIVING THE "HAIRY EYEBALL"
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00:03:32 120.17 |
BUSINESSMAN IN HIS OFFICE LOOKS UP AT WALL CLOCK 8:45. LOOKS AT EMPLOYEE WHO LOOKS AT CLOCK, THEN AT HIS POCKET WATCH. LATE FOR WORK
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00:03:50 138.17 |
CU MAN SETTING TIME CHANGING TIME ON POCKET WATCH
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00:04:04 151.17 |
BUSY LARGE OFFICE, ROWS OF DESKS. EMPLOYEE LATE FOR WORK TAKES SEAT AT HIS DESK, OPENS & READS NEWSPAPER. CU NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE REPORTS
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00:04:28 175.17 |
CU COMIC SECTION FROM EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER PHILADELPHIA
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00:04:30 177.17 |
CU MAN READING COMICS LETTING OUT HARDY LAUGH LAUGHING AT THE FUNNIES. GRUMPY OLD MAN AT DESK BEHIND HIM TURNS TO YELL AT HIM, CO-WORKER SHOWS HIM THE COMIC, HE DOESN'T THINK IT'S FUNNY
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00:04:44 192.17 |
BOSS PUTS HAND ON LAUGHING EMPLOYEE'S SHOULDER, GIVES HIM A WARNING
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00:05:35 242.17 |
WOMAN ENTERS OFFICE, SOLICITING RAFFLE FOR WIDOWS AND ORPHANS FUND. OFFICE WORKERS BUYING RAFFLE TICKETS
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00:06:31 298.17 |
COLD HEARTED MAN THROWS TICKET IN GARBAGE BASKET THEN PULLS OUT RING BOX FROM POCKET. CU OPENING RING BOX WITH BIG DIAMOND ENGAGEMENT RING. WOMAN TURNS & LEAVES
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00:07:10 337.17 |
MS OFFICE WORKER WATCHES HER LEAVE, PICKS UP TORN RAFFLE TICKET FROM WASTE BASKET, NONCHALANTLY PUTS IN HIS POCKET, ADJUSTS TIE
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00:07:39 366.17 |
PHILADELPHIA STREET SCENE CIRCA 1926 STREETCAR, HORSE & CARRIAGE SHARING ROAD WITH CARS. MAN PAUSES ON STREET, PULLS OUT POCKET WATCH, CHECKS THE TIME. GIRLFRIEND ARRIVES, MEETING WOMAN, SHE TAKES HIS ARM, WALKING IN PARK
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00:08:06 393.17 |
COUPLE SITTING ON PARK BENCH COURTING. MAN PULLS OUT RING BOX, GIVES TO HIS INTENDED. SHE CLUTCHES HER HEART WITH GLOVED HAND SURPRISED, TAKEN ABACK ENGAGEMENT RING POPS THE QUESTION. CUTS TO A GRINNING POLICEMAN WATCHING
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00:09:47 494.17 |
PLAIN WOMAN WEARING APRON SETTING KITCHEN TABLE
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00:09:52 499.17 |
ELDERLY MAN COMING HOME FROM WORK, ENTERS HOUSE, TAKES OFF COAT, HAT. WIFE KISSES HUSBAND ON THE CHEEK. MAN SITS IN CHAIR UNLACES SHOES, RELAXING AFTER WORK
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00:10:28 536.17 |
YOUNG WOMAN, DAUGHTER RUNS INTO ROOM, ELATED HAPPY. SAYS HELLO TO PARENTS, RUNS UPSTAIRS
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00:10:38 546.17 |
YOUNG MAN NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR PAUSES ON HIS DOORSTEP, WHISTLES THROUGH HIS FINGERS AT GIRL NEXT DOOR WHO COMES OUT, GOING TO DINNER NEXT DOOR
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00:11:04 571.17 |
MS MAN HELPING WOMAN CLIMB OVER FENCE BETWEEN THEIR HOUSES APARTMENTS
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00:11:13 580.17 |
MOTHER SETTING DINNER TABLE, YOUNG COUPLE COMES IN, GREETS MOTHER, GIRLFRIEND HELPS SET TABLE.
DAUGHTER RUSHES IN, MOTHER CHASTISING DAUGHTER FOR BUYING NEW DRESS |
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FIANCE ARRIVES AT DOOR, GIRL RUNS, OPENS DOOR FIANCE TALKING TO GIRL'S BROTHER, LETS OUT HEARTY LAUGH. CU MAN HOLDING HIS EARS SHIELDING OUT LOUD LAUGHTER. TAKES OFF COAT & HAT, MOTHER & DAUGHTER TALKING BEHIND HIS BACK
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00:14:01 748.17 |
UNCOMFORTABLE MOMENT; FIANCE'S FAMILY TRYING TO GET RID OF HIM, HE DOESN'T GET THE HINT, THEY'RE STUCK WITH HIM FOR DINNER
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00:15:36 843.17 |
CU MAN PRETENDING TO BE MAKING PHONE CALL, PUTS ELBOW ON RECEIVER BUTTON
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00:16:58 926.17 |
FAMILY & GUESTS SITTING DOWN FOR DINNER. SON RECEIVES REJECTION LETTER FOR INVENTION. CU LETTER. FAMILY & GUESTS DISCUSS INVENTION .
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00:18:56 1043.17 |
FATHER SAYS GRACE PRAYING BEFORE EATING.
DINNER GUEST COUNTING CHICKEN LEGS FIGURING OUT PROPORTIONS, GIRLFRIEND CATCHES HIM, SHARE A SMILE |
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INVENTOR IN BASEMENT LABORATORY SHOWING FATHER & SISTER NEW INVENTION
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00:20:27 1135.17 |
ENGAGED COUPLE IN HALLWAY TALKING. MOTHER EAVESDROPPING. LISTENING BEHIND CLOSED DOOR HEARS THEM MAKING PLANS FOR WHEN THEY'RE MARRIED
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REST OF FAMILY CATCHES MOTHER LISTENING AT DOOR EAVESDROPPING.
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OLDER COUPLE RELAXING IN LIVING ROOM, SHE KNITTING, HE READING THE PAPER SMOKING PIPE COUPLE TALKING ABOUT DAUGHTER
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00:23:29 1316.17 |
ENGAGED COUPLE GO IN TO TELL HER PARENTS THE NEWS OF THEIR ENGAGEMENT
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00:23:55 1343.17 |
FATHER GETS ANGRY AT GUEST FOR MOVING LAMP FROM TABLE. NIT PICKING, FINDING FAULT WITH DAUGHTER'S BOYFRIEND. DAUGHTER POURS GLASS OF WATER FROM PITCHER. PARENTS MAKING FACES AT GUEST. GRUMPY FATHER. FIANCE SLAPS FATHER-IN-LAW-TO-BE ON THE BACK, FATHER GETS VERY ANGRY, THROWS PAPER DOWN, YELLS IN-YOUR-FACE AT FIANCE, WALKS OUT
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00:25:59 1467.17 |
OBNOXIOUS FIANCE OPENS UP FAMILY ALBUM, LAUGHS HEARTY LAUGH
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00:26:22 1489.17 |
FATHER LEANS OVER SECOND FLOOR RAILING, YELLS AT LOUD BOYFRIEND TO BE QUIET
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00:26:42 1509.17 |
FIANCE LOOKS AT POCKET WATCH, PUTS ON HAT &
COAT, THANKS MOTHER, KISSES HER ON FOREHEAD, LEAVES |
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DAUGHTER & MOTHER HAVE WORDS ON STAIRCASE, DAUGHTER ANGRY AT PARENTS
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00:28:20 1607.17 |
WOMAN LOOKING AT ENGAGEMENT RING ON HER FINGER DREAMILY DAY DREAMING
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00:29:03 1650.17 |
NEWLYWEDS ARRIVING AT "LOVE NEST" SHE TERRIBLY DISAPPOINTED. HUSBAND DOES NOT CARRY WIFE OVER THE THRESHOLD
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00:29:51 1698.17 |
INVENTOR IN BASEMENT LABORATORY, FATHER ENTERS, INVENTOR DISAPPOINTED WITH EXPERIMENT. CU CHECK WRITTEN MAY 25, 1926 FOR ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS FATHER HELPING SON WITH MONEY
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00:31:51 1819.17 |
NEWLYWEDS IN APARTMENT, WIFE PUTTING MURPHY BED AWAY IN CLOSET, HUSBAND EATING BREAKFAST. TINY APARTMENT. WIFE IRONING, HUSBAND READING NEWSPAPER. SEXIST HUSBAND MAKES WIFE STOP IRONING TO REFILL HIS COFFEE CUP WHEN COFFEE POT IS WITHIN REACHING DISTANCE
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00:33:39 1927.17 |
WIFE HELPING HUSBAND INTO SUIT JACKET, BRINGS HIM CANE & HAT, SENDING HUSBAND OFF TO WORK KISSES HER GOODBYE
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00:35:23 2030.17 |
HOUSEWIFE RELAXING, READING NEWSPAPERS LOOKING AT CLASSIFIEDS CU FOR RENT
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00:36:02 2069.17 |
DESPONDENT DAUGHTER GOING HOME TO MOTHER FOR COMFORT. TOTALLY EXHAUSTED, SHE COLLAPSES IN CHAIR, CONCERNED MOTHER.
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00:37:27 2154.17 |
WOMAN IN OFFICE LOOKING FOR RAFFLE WINNER, CU MAN PULLING RAFFLE TICKET FROM WATCH POCKET, HE WON THE CAR
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00:38:11 2198.17 |
BUSINESSMAN CALLING WIFE ON TELEPHONE
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00:39:19 2266.17 |
DAUGHTER TALKING TO MOTHER, MOTHER LOOKS CONFUSED THEN ANGRY
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00:39:54 2301.17 |
MS TWO MEN SHAKING HANDS IN FRONT OF NEW CAR NEW OWNER GETS IN CAR, LEARNING HOW TO DRIVE CAR WITH GEAR SHIFT, STICK SHIFT. DRIVER DRIVES BACKWARDS INTO SHOP, THEN FORWARD, DRIVING ERRATICALLY DOWN MAIN STREET, LOOKS LIKE DRUNK DRIVER. INEXPERIENCED DRIVER IN URBAN TRAFFIC
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00:42:16 2443.17 |
PHILADELPHIA TRAFFIC CIRCA 1926
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00:42:25 2452.17 |
INEXPERIENCED DRIVER CAUSES TRAFFIC ACCIDENT TRAFFIC JAM. DRIVERS GET OUT OF CARS HAVE WORDS WITH BAD DRIVER
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00:43:09 2496.17 |
TRAFFIC POLICEMAN IN MIDDLE OF BUSY STREET
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00:43:12 2499.17 |
BAD DRIVER SITS DOWN, DRIVES AWAY INTO BUSY TRAFFIC. CU POLICEMAN TRYING TO STOP CAR WEAVING ERRATICALLY THROUGH TRAFFIC
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00:43:19 2506.17 |
OUT-OF-CONTROL CAR DRIVING ON SIDEWALKS, CHASING POLICEMAN, PEDESTRIANS RUN OUT OF THE WAY. CAR PINS POLICEMAN TO BUILDING
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00:43:32 2520.17 |
MAD MOB RUSHING CROWD SWARMS AROUND CAR, OTHER POLICEMEN HELP PINNED POLICEMAN, FREE HIM. MOB SURROUNDING DRIVER, PHOTOGRAPHERS SNAPPING PHOTOGRAPHS, WAVES OF RUSHING CROWDS ARRIVING ON THE SCENE.
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00:44:51 2599.17 |
MOB SURROUNDING DRIVER'S CAR, DRIVER SHOUTING ORATING, PREACHING
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00:45:05 2612.17 |
CU INJURED POLICEMAN BEING HELPED BY ANOTHER PAINED EXPRESSION IN PAIN
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00:45:26 2633.17 |
WOMAN WAITING IN FRONT OF HOUSE ANTICIPATING HUSBAND'S ARRIVAL LOOKING LEFT & RIGHT
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00:45:35 2642.17 |
LOVEY DOVEY COUPLE SITTING ON PORCH LEDGE,
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00:45:52 2660.17 |
CAR TOWING ANOTHER CAR, CAR BEING TOWED IN URBAN NEIGHBORHOOD. FAMILY STARING IN DISBELIEF AT REALIZATION THAT CAR IS HUSBAND'S NEW CAR
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00:46:22 2689.17 |
CU DRIVER WITH BANDAGED HEAD SITTING DRIVER'S SEAT OF TOWED CAR, EMBARRASSED, HE PUTS HEAD IN HAND
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00:46:39 2706.17 |
1920s TOW TRUCK DRIVER UNHITCHING CAR. DRIVER OF NEW CRASHED CAR GETS OUT THROWS HAND IN THE AIR, TAKES HAT OFF, SHOWS BANDAGED HEAD. CU WIFE WITH CONCERNED LOOK. HE EXPLAINS WHAT HAPPENED. WIFE COMFORTING INJURED HUSBAND
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00:48:43 2830.17 |
COURTING COUPLE SITTING ON STAIRCASE LAUGHING WHEN INJURED MAN ENTERS, THEY CLAP, APPLAUD HE IS NOT HUMORED
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00:49:20 2867.17 |
WIFE DOTING ON INJURED HUSBAND
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00:49:30 2877.17 |
COURTING COUPLE ON STAIRCASE, MAN GETS UP TO ANSWER TELEPHONE. MS NURSE CALLING TO TELL FATHER IS IN HOSPITAL, GIRLFRIEND LOOKS CONCERNED AT BOYFRIEND'S EXPRESSIONS
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00:50:39 2947.17 |
SON / BROTHER TELLS FAMILY FATHER IS IN HOSPITAL WIFE / MOTHER BREATHS HARD, SHORTNESS OF BREATH AT BAD NEWS. DAUGHTER CONSOLES MOTHER. EVERY ONE GOES OFF TO HOSPITAL, MOTHER MAKES DAUGHTER STAY HOME WITH INJURED HUSBAND
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00:52:51 3079.17 |
PEOPLE LEAVING HOUSE IN CROWDED URBAN NEIGHBORHOOD, MANY HOUSES CLOSE TO EACH OTHER
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00:52:56 3084.17 |
UPSET WOMAN LEANS ON FIREPLACE MANTLE SOBBING INJURED HUSBAND CONSOLES WIFE
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00:53:26 3113.17 |
COUPLE IN HOSPITAL WARD STARING AT DOOR, WAITING FOR NEWS. WIFE / MOTHER WALKS IN SHOCKED LOOK GIRLFRIEND WALKS TO HER, BOYFRIEND / SON CALLS HOME, SISTER ANSWERS PHONE, HANGS UP STUNNED AT THE NEWS, INJURED HUSBAND CONSOLES HER
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00:55:54 3262.17 |
INJURED MAN MOVES LAMP TO WHERE DEAD FATHER DID NOT WANT IT, INSENSITIVE MOVE
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00:56:38 3305.17 |
NEWLY WIDOWED WOMAN MOVING SLOWLY UP STEPS INTO HOUSE FOLLOWED BY SON & HIS GIRLFRIEND. GRIEVING FAMILY. MOTHER & DAUGHTER HUG IN SHARED GRIEF FAMILY MOURNING PASSING OF FAMILY MEMBER, INSENSITIVE MAN PUTS LAMP BACK WHERE DEAD MAN HAD IT. IN A SENSITIVE MOMENT, SLIDES DEAD MAN'S SLIPPERS OUT OF VIEW
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00:58:50 3437.17 |
CU JUDGE BANGING GAVEL, COURT ROOM TRIAL, CUTS TO SPECTATORS WATCHING TRAIL. ACCUSED GIVING TESTIMONY. SWEARING IN, MAN BEING CHARGED WITH CRIME. GIVEN FINE OR JAIL TIME. THREATENS JUDGE, ANGRY, JUDGE GIVES HIM STIFFER SENTENCE
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01:03:15 3702.17 |
CRIMINAL SAYING GOODBYE TO FAMILY BEFORE GOING OFF TO JAIL
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01:03:36 3724.17 |
CRIMINAL PAYING FINE TO COURT AFTER SENTENCING BROTHER-IN-LAW PAYS FINE WITH CHECK WRITTEN BY HIS DEAD FATHER TO PAY MORTGAGE WITH. SAVING HIM FROM DOING JAIL TIME. HUGS HIM IN BROTHERLY WAY
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01:05:14 3821.17 |
WOMAN PICKING UP NEWSPAPER DELIVERED TO FRONT STEPS. CU NEWSPAPER ARTICLE SHOWING "MANIAC DRIVER SAVED FROM JAIL" BY BROTHER-IN-LAW.
REALIZES HE PAID $1000.00 FINE |
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MOTHER SWEEPING KITCHEN FLOOR, WOMAN RUNS IN & SHOWS HER NEWSPAPER, THE MEN TRY TO STOP HER BUT TO NO AVAIL, THE SECRET IS OUT. MOTHER TURNS HER HEAD IN DISAPPOINTMENT, COMPLETELY SHAMED. EMOTIONS RANGE FROM ANGER TO SADNESS
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01:09:07 4054.17 |
MAN WALKING DOWN TO BASEMENT LABORATORY, SITS DOWN, PULLS OUT LETTER, READS LETTER, PUTS BACK IN POCKET. PICKS UP TUBE
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01:10:17 4125.17 |
MAN IN FRONT OF BOARD MEMBERS, MEETING, ORATING GIVING SPEECH HOLDING TUBE, TRYING TO SELL BROTHER-IN-LAW'S INVENTION
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01:13:12 4299.17 |
ELDERLY BANK MANAGER ARRIVING AT FAMILY'S HOUSE TO TELL THEM THEIR HOUSE HAS BEEN FORECLOSED MOTHER TAKES A SEAT, WEAKENED FROM NEWS
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01:14:02 4349.17 |
BROTHER-IN-LAW MANAGES TO TALK FIRM INTO BUYING INVENTION. MEMBERS SIGNING DEAL
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01:14:59 4407.17 |
MOTHER HOUSE OWNER GOES TO SIGN PAPERS, SIGNING OVER DEED TO THE HOUSE, PEN DOESN'T WORK
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01:16:22 4489.17 |
MAN GOES OVER TO POLICEMAN, SHAKES HIS HAND, POLICEMAN ANGRILY TAKES HIS HAND AWAY, DOES NOT LIKE THIS MAN
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01:16:57 4525.17 |
PEDESTRIAN CROSSING URBAN STREET AT FAST PACE
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01:17:24 4551.17 |
CU MAN LAYING DOWN INK WELL & PEN. CU WOMAN PICKING UP FOUNTAIN PEN
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01:17:42 4569.17 |
MAN MAKING HIS WAY HOME THROUGH PHILADELPHIA
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01:17:51 4578.17 |
CU WOMAN DIPPING PEN IN INK WELL
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01:17:58 4585.17 |
TWO MEN ON CITY STREET ARGUING, PUSHING &
SHOVING, ONE ESCAPES OTHER'S GRIP, RUNS AWAY WITH MAN RUNNING AFTER THEM |
01:18:15 4602.17 |
MAN RUNS INTO HOUSE, POINTS AT MOTHER TO STOP SIGNING PAPERS, SAVES THE DAY. SHOWS CHECK TO BROTHER-IN-LAW. CU CHECK FOR $50.000 SELLING HIS INVENTION
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01:19:05 4652.17 |
MAN CRANKS PHONOGRAPH MACHINE, PUTS ON RECORD WIFE & FAMILY FAWNING OVER HIM
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01:20:42 4750.17 |
SON COMES IN LIVING ROOM, MOTHER LOOKS UP TOWARD HEAVEN, LAYS HER HEAD ON HER SON'S SHOULDER
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01:21:16 4783.4 |
TAPE ENDS
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