Sherman Grinberg Film Library
President Dwight D. Eisenhower pitches first ball at the Washington Senators' home opener
Title card: "Baseball Big League Swings Into Action" / President Dwight D. Eisenhower in stands at Washington Senators-New York Yankees game with team managers Bucky Harris and Casey Stengel and officials, wearing glove on left hand and...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
1920s footage of Thomas Edison with visitors at his West Orange laboratory
Thomas Edison seated at roll-top desk with cubbyholes jammed with papers; a visitor arrives, bows, and they shake hands, then he leans to speak into in Edison's ear / Jumpy footage of Edison posing and giving the man a document / Edison...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Peary Monument being constructed at Cape York, Greenland, by members of Arctic explorer Robert Bartlett's expedition and Eskimos
Two shots of men riding dogsleds pulled by dogs a cross snowy landscape / close shot of dogs pulling sled / two men carrying metal tub filled with water on wooden boards and pouring water into wood barrel / two shots of men making...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Storms plague United Kingdom in November of 1954
Title: "Gales Sweep Britain" superimposed over wave crashing on shore / waves crashing against wall and utility pole / Aerials South Goodwin lightship turned on side in rough ocean / CU survivor of Goodwin lightship Ronald Murton talking...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Visiting French Prime Minister Guy Mollet confronted by street riot in Algiers by French colonialists opposed to concessions to Muslim nationalists
Title "Spot News Report-Riots in Algiers" superimposed over riot in street / French Prime Minister Guy Mollet descends plane stairs / officials greet Mollet / looking down on Mollet's car with motorcycle escort, crowd to side / Mollet...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Homes and cathedral are destroyed by sudden landslide in Nicolet, Quebec
Title: "Crater of Ruin - Freak Landslide Hits Old Quebec Town" superimposed over wrecked homes / PAN wreckage and wrecked homes / Top view wrecked homes and wreckage / MS two men on top of debris of wrecked homes / PAN from bridge to...
Sky News
RAF sends humanitarian aid drops to Northern Iraq
RAF sends humanitarian aid drops to Northern Iraq
Hearst Metrotone News
Steam trains pushes cars full of dirt during the construction of the Panama Canal.
Steam trains pushes cars full of dirt during the construction of the Panama Canal.
Hearst Metrotone News
U.S. General Douglas MacArthur wears his full uniform, scarf and sunglasses.
U.S. General Douglas MacArthur wears his full uniform, scarf and sunglasses.
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Total solar eclipse viewed in California in 1930
Scientists prepare equipment to gather data on solar eclipse / spectators stand with smoked eyeglasses, looking up into the sky / moon partially obscuring the sun / pan the scientists' encampment; tilt up to sky / onlookers / full sun...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Wheelchair magician at veterans' hospital
A hospital room filled with beds and men in wheelchairs / The men watch as another man in a wheelchair performs several magic tricks to the amusement of all / The man shows a scarf with an eagle with him dropping it to show a fishbowl...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Young girls show the new look in party dresses at a Halloween party
Title: "Fashions - Festive And Dressy Season For The Young" superimposed over carved pumpkin / WS autumn country scene, water falls from river flanked by trees / WS another autumn country scene, tall trees by water, car driving on road /...
Hearst Metrotone News
Bartenders serve a bar full of patrons who are celebrating the end of prohibition.
Bartenders serve a bar full of patrons who are celebrating the end of prohibition.
Sky News
France Wildfires helicopter flying through smoke
CLEAN: Shows exterior shots helicopter with object hanging beneath flying across smoke filled sky near Le Lavandou. At least 10-thousand people have been evacuated from campsites and homes across south-eastern France as wildfires...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Hungarian refugees offered haven by 23 countries first arrive in the Netherlands and Belgium
Title card: "Haven…Doors Opened to Hungarian Refugees" / Title "Netherlands" superimposed over train arriving at station / platform crowded with people who greet train, refugees hang out windows / man hands cigarettes out to men in train...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
During Korean War, scenes of US troops in combat in South Korea, peace talks in North Korea, and US troops in US leaving for Korea
Title in form of newspaper headline: "Korea cease-fire drama, Global story of the year" / US soldiers in South Korea march down road, trucks carrying anti-aircraft guns behind / US Gen. Matthew Ridgway, Commander of UN Forces in Korea,...
Getty Images
Mineral water with ice cubes HD Real Time
Close-up at a glass with mineral water and bubbles
Getty Images
CU Shot of cement compressor removing air from filled casting concrete at house construction, building site / Hermeskeil, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany
CU Shot of cement compressor removing air from filled casting concrete at house construction, building site / Hermeskeil, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany
Getty Images
Torrey Canyon Tanker Spill
Aerial view of wrecked tanker Torrey Canyon off the coast of England near Land's End, Cornwall / oil pooling in the ocean around the tanker / people on the beach inspecting oil damage / waves full of oil hit beach and birds covered in...