Films
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Jan 11 2014
Video of the Week: The Long Island Motor Parkway, Queens, NYC (November 20, 2010)
On November 20, 2010, Emilio Guerra documented this beautiful section of the Motor Parkway making up the Queens Greenway from Kissena Corridor East Park to Alley Pond Park. (0 comments)
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Dec 13 2013
Video of the Week: Vanderbilt Museum Sells One of A Kind Chrysler (2012)
In March 2012, reporter Chris Collora documented the purchase of the 1937 Chrysler's Chrysler by Howard Kroplick from the Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum. (0 comments)
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Dec 06 2013
Video of the Week: Italian Film “Nuvolari Wins the 1936 Vanderbilt Cup Race at Roosevelt Field”
Cinecittà Luce Institute, an Italian film company, has posted this rare film of Tazio Nuvolari winning the 1936 Vanderbilt Cup Race at Roosevelt Raceway in Westbury. (0 comments)
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Oct 08 2013
FiOS1 Video “The Alco Black Beast at the 2013 Cow Neck Peninsula Historical Society Fall Festival”
This four -minute news clip on the Alco Black Beast was created by videojournalist Louis Dane for FiOS1 Long Island. (0 comments)
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Oct 02 2013
1920s Promotional Film “Oilfield Dodge”
Gary "The Local Brush" Kupfer has forwarded this three-minute film showing a Dodge car navigating the "roads" to an oilfield in the 1920s. (7 comments)
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Jun 29 2013
The Top 15 Black Beast Films On YouTube
Based on YouTube views, below are the top 15 videos featuring the Alco Black Beast. Amazingly, over 37,000 people have viewed the 5-minute clip of the Black Beast in the 2012 History Channel's series "Men Who Built America." (4 comments)
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Apr 02 2013
Award-Winning Video: Howard Kroplick Q &A “The Long Island Motor Parkway”
Last year, I visited the Cablevision studios of "Davidson & Company" to discuss the Long Island Motor Parkway with host Larry Davidson. (1 comments)
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Mar 20 2013
Video: “The Long Island Motor Parkway, the first highway in the world”
Filmmaker Michael Spiteri created this two-minute pilot film last year entitled: "The Long Island Motor Parkway, the first highway in the world." (2 comments)
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Jan 30 2013
Video: “Chasing a 1908 Simplex Speedcar”
One of my favorite cars on Long Island was the 1908 Simplex Speedcar restored and owned by Walter McCarthy. Several owners and restorations later, the car was sold last summer and was documented on Wayne Carini's "Chasing Classic Cars" on the Velocity channel. (2 comments)
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Nov 12 2012
Film “The Black Beast in the Finale of “Men Who Built America”
Sunday's finale of the History Channel's "Men Who Built America" featured a re-enactment of the 1901 "Race That Changed the World" of Henry Ford racing against Alexander Winton (played by me in the Alco Black Beast). (6 comments)
Joseph Oesterle - likely a heightened concrete barrier added later to prevent pedestrians from falling over?
Fred Rieder…