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- Depicts the factual accounts of Vincenzo Di Francesca came to appreciate the contents of the Book of Mormon.
- From Albany to Buffalo, and from 1825 into the 21st Century, the Erie Canal has made American history. Tom Grasso, President of the NY State Canal Society, takes us on a tour of the Canal, past and present, in this film. Before the railroads spanned the continent, waterways were the best way to travel. At Fort Edward on the upper Hudson, and at Whitehall, the southernmost end of Lake Champlain, Tom explains the crucial role of waterways in developing the American continent. A quick map lesson graphically clarifies the importance of the Mohawk river valley, the only water route through the coastal mountains between Canada and Alabama. Overlooking the "Noses" of the Mohawk, we can see for ourselves why the Erie Canal became the Gateway to the West, and so made New York the Empire State. With Tom, we visit the Ft. Hunter guard lock on the Original Erie, then the Cohoes, Macedon, and Yankee Hill locks and the Schoharie Creek aqueduct on the Enlarged Erie. As Ted Curtis pilots the Sam Patch tour barge, Pete Seeger sings "15 Miles on the Erie Canal". Musician George Ward accompanies Peter Spier's delightful drawings of life on the Enlarged Erie, and we see the only mule-drawn barge on the system, Miss Apple Grove. Starting with the magnificent Lock 17 at Little Falls, Tom visits tug boats and tour boats along the Barge Canal - the third enlargement of the Canal, completed in 1918. With Peter Wiles on his 1920's yacht Trident, and with Dan Wiles on the Emita II tour boat, Tom tours the Great Embankment and Lockport. As we explore the beauty and history of this great artificial river, we share a vision of its rebirth as a timeless attraction for visitors from around the world.
- During World War I, beautiful and patriotic Leslie Selden is courted by two ardent admirers: Jack Wynn, a young man not yet taken by the draft, and Dr. Wolff, a Danish scientist who is actually a German agent. When Jack learns that Wolff is masterminding a plot to bomb several munitions factories and destroy the water system in New York City, he goes to the spy's home and confronts him. Wolff locks him up, then forges a note to Leslie claiming that the young man has run away to escape the draft. Her suspicions aroused, Leslie alerts the authorities and plants a dictograph in Wolff's house, through which she learns of the scheduled bombings. Accompanied by the police, she arrives at Wolff's residence just in time to prevent Jack's murder and the destruction of the city.
- Plastic Tides take on 11 brutal days and 240 miles of driving snow, subzero temperatures, and punishing ice along the Erie Canal on stand up paddleboards to raise awareness of plastic microbeads in cosmetic products.
- The story of a man desperate to return his home to the beauty it once was and remove the corruption and violence from New York City.
- In this latest Edison educational offering, interesting from beginning to end, we are impressed by the fact that man appears to have little part in the stupendous work. The massive and complicated machinery seems to act as though it were itself alive and endowed with intelligence. An electrically-operated bridge conveyor, 420 feet long, weighing 600 tons; a dipper-dredge feeding hydraulic disposal boat, cantilever cranes; a movable dam of bridge type (the first of its kind in America); concrete locks in operation, etc., are all shown and each adds its peculiar interest. Huge buckets raise tons of rock and dirt, opening and closing their tremendous jaws, enormous cranes swing, raise and lower, and a chain of curious conveyors on a belt slowly eats its way into the shore.
- Tod and Linc are in Erie Canal,New York working in construction and living in a "mobile home court". Their know-it-all neighbor, who has moved his family to various cities because he cannot hold a job, suffers when his baby son disappears. Linc, playing detective, finds out the man's other two children are the cause.