Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: The New Year's Eve ball drop started over 100 years ago. Based on a 19th-century maritime tradition, "time balls" were once dropped down poles in ...

At the north end of Times Square, Jeffrey Straus, the president of Countdown Entertainment, which produces the ball drop ... confetti will be dropped with the world-renowned ball on New Year’s ...

[Dino] wanted to make this New Year’s celebration a bit more interesting, but he can’t make it to New York for the ball drop. Instead, he decided to make his own mini display in his workshop.