American composer, George Gershwin, performs solo passage on the piano (likely from Rhapsody in Blue). Gershwin at the piano accompanied by Paul Whiteman's orchestra, with Whiteman conducting. Paul Whiteman playing violin with several other violinists. A Harlem jazz band of African American musicians performing in a jazz club. Couples dancing the Charleston. Band members singing with megaphones as flappers and couples dance, including the Charleston dance.
Movie portrayal of gangster activities during prohibition, in 1920s in the United States. Illicit liquor trade and gang warfare. Clandestine liquor manufacture. The illicit liquor is loaded onto a truck for transportation. Truck hijacking after truck carrying liquor smashes into a car blocking the road. Metal milk containers filled with liquor being machine gunned by a passing car. Two business establishments being bombed. Gangsters interrogating two men and threatening them while holding handguns. Faceless gangster in 1920s fashions (actor) fires revolver. A policeman with a gun firing at gangsters during a getaway.
Wealthy women and Haute Couture in Paris, France. Hotel Ritz with taxis parked in front. Views of exclusive shops. Cartier, jeweler. Worth and Coty. Guerlain. Woman goes on buying spree, pointing at and buying things that attract her. Private fashion shows for wealthy women clients. Models show latest fashions in salons.
Patrons at a crowded sidewalk cafe on the Champs-Elysees in Paris, France. The Arch of triumph seen in background. Patrons dine, converse, and smoke cigarettes. Waiters serve the tables. On the sidewalks, a vendor sells "La Globe" newspaper; a boy wearing a "New York Herald" cap, sells papers; and another vendor sells "La Monde" papers. A large newsstand is also seen on the sidewalk.
Russians leaving through the gate of a liberated Nazi prison labor camp. U.S. military guards at the prison gate. Former prison laborers awaiting return to their native countries. Russian girls talking with laborers. A straight road just outside the camp. People walk on the road. Former prisoners gathered in a group talking and smiling. Two ladies hold a man's hands and bring him forward. A man with a cap stands behind them. (World War II period).
United States Army Air Forces Martin B-26 Marauders, a World War II twin-engine medium bomber, fly over targets in Germany. An outline of a single 50mm caliber machine gun located at the waist position. Enemy targets on the ground burn and black smoke rising. Several bombs dropped on the ground. Smoke rises from the German farmland. A few B-26 Marauders fly above the German landscape. A B-26 in flight over the Rhine River.
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