Sherman Grinberg Film Library
A bulletproof vest for use by the US Marine Corps
A close view of a vest and neck hole
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Grenade test of bulletproof military vest
A uniformed man holds clapperboard in front of two vests on chicken wire with a hand grenade between them; the grenades smokes and explodes, showing no real damage
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Demonstration of new watermelon-shaped, balloon-like all-terrain tires called Rolligons in Stockton, CA
Title "Tires on a new roll!" superimposed over truck-trailer rolling down slope on one Rolligon in front and two in rear / truck-trailer mounted on Rolligons rolling over rocks and log / shot from truck-trailer as it moves through swamp...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
The 'Crusade of Freedom' exhibits a homemade tank in New Jersey
Title superimposed on a printing press, "People & Events You're Reading About" & "On Tour - A symbol of Freedom" over a tank on a long flatbed truck / The vehicle drives across the George Washington Bridge to New Jersey with the tank...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
British engineer Granville Bradshaw invents an auto engine with only 9 parts
Title: "News of Invention - Auto Engine With Only 9 Working Parts" superimposed over engine / PAN and CU charts showing plan of engine / VS Granville Bradshaw, British engineer and inventor, picking up wooden engine model / CU Bradshaw...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Demonstration of new amphibious helicopter called "Heli-Vector" in Briarcliff Manor, NY
Title "Newest in the air . . . One-man amphibious 'copter" superimposed over helicopter landing on water / inventor of helicopter Lewis McCarty and another man walk up to helicopter, McCarty on right / two shots of McCarty getting on...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
A robot umpire in Hollywood
Title card: "Baseball - This Umpire IS always right!" / The mechanical gear of Garco, the robot umpire that raises and lowers his arm / VS a look at his head, rotating eyes, and a Plexiglas 'skull' / Robot voice SOT, "Ok, men let's go" /...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
The 100th anniversary of photography
The entrance to the Museum of Modern Art / CU "The Museum of Modern Art" words above columns at museum entrance / A boy and older woman look at the exhibit of daguerreotypes, and calotypes / photographs on exhibit // building in...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Centennial of photography celebrated at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City; a look at photography pioneers
Title card: "World Honors Photography's 100th Birthday" / "New York" superimposed over people at the entrance to the Museum of Modern Art / CU "The Museum of Modern Art" words above columns at museum entrance / A boy and older woman look...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Inventor Maitland B. Bleecker performs ground test of his new helicopter in New York City
Title card: "To fly straight up! New York, NY - New helicopter (Curtis-Bleecker helicopter), built to rise vertically, comes out of hangar for first ground test of motors" / men pushing helicopter across tarmac past parked plane / two...
Hearst Metrotone News
A cartoon depicts prehistoric man progressing to modern man, through the defeat of dinosaurs, the discovery of fire and the industrial revolution.
A cartoon depicts prehistoric man progressing to modern man, through the defeat of dinosaurs, the discovery of fire and the industrial revolution.
Hearst Metrotone News
Thomas Edison meets with a businessman and works on his inventions.
Thomas Edison meets with a businessman and works on his inventions.
Curated Video
7023B BLINDNESS - A NEW CURE FROM SPAIN
In Madrid, a 74 year old eye specialist has developed
a device that may eventually allow blind people to see
almost as well as people with normal eyesight. He is
Dr. Tomas Barraquer, head of the consulting clinic of
the Barraquer...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Miniature railroad-style conveyor operates inside Chicago Tribune paper storage warehouse
MLS warehouse workers load rolls of paper onto Von Der Horst East & West Railroad conveyor system that transports them off screen / MS 'trucks' from the upper track descend onto the loading track where workers place roll of paper onto...
Bloomberg
Addressing Anti-Asian Violence in the U.S.
Apr.26 -- Andrew Leong, University of Massachusetts Boston (UMB) associate professor, discusses the Senate passage of legislation designed to combat hate crimes in the U.S. and the history of anti-Asian hate with Bloomberg's Scarlet Fu...
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : HBO throws out rulebook with streaming launch
Decades before glossy Netflix and Amazon shows began luring Hollywood A-listers to the small screen, cable network HBO helped invent premium television (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
Bridgeman Arts
Supersonic Preview part 3 - Concorde Sales Director speaks. Shots of Concorde factory, engine and cockpit.
Clip from a documentary on the Concorde plane, showing us how wonderfully useful, fast and liable it is. This film predicts the beginning of a supersonic age. Probably 1976, when the Concorde entered service as a commercial airliner....
Bridgeman Arts
Manufacturing of vinyl discs in factory. Filmed in 1958.
Clip 4 from Au Creux des Sillons. French language film about the history of sound recording made in 1958 with the help of Pathe-Marconi. Shows the process of manufacturing vinyl discs from studio recording to factory. Production of vinyl...
Bloomberg
Golden Age of Cooperation Between U.S., China Is Coming to an End, Says Fenghe Group’s Wu
Jun.06 -- John Wu, founder and chairman at Fenghe Group, discusses the U.S.-China trade war, its impact on China’s tech ambitions, China’s chip production, tech startups, valuations in the industry, where the next big thing in tech will...
Hearst Metrotone News
Four men carry a rocket; physicist Dr. Robert Goddard assembles it.
Four men carry a rocket; physicist Dr. Robert Goddard assembles it.
Hearst Metrotone News
Laboratory workers microfilm V-mail letters and send them to troops overseas.
Laboratory workers microfilm V-mail letters and send them to troops overseas.
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Warehouse workers at 'railroad crossing' of miniature railroad conveyor system inside Chicago Tribune's paper storage warehouse
MLS warehouse worker holds up stop sign between to railroad crossing signs as overhead light bulbs flash and rail cars bearing rolls of paper pass thru frame along the Von Der Horst East & West Railroad conveyor system inside storage...