Large crowd gathers to celebrate the New Year (1937) in Times Square, New York City. Illuminated signs on buildings. Many neon signs advertise products, such as 'Planters Peanuts and 'Coca-Cola' . Two large klieg lights illuminate the crowd for the camera.
Mummers parade in Philadelphia. Parade passes along Broad Street. Men in enormous fancy costumes. Men carry a baby in fancy dress. Behind them is a car with sign reading "Oregon NYA." Various decorative floats in the parade. Various groups perform. Men in drag and men dressed like women among the performers. Bands march and play. Numerous spectators watch the parade. Policemen on horseback patrol along the parade route.
Members of the Washington DC press corps scribble furiously taking notes at a press conference. Afterwards, one of the reporters rises and goes to a microphone to ask a question.
USS Springfield returns to Boston, Massachusetts. Playboy bunnies and a group of teenage-girls walk to the end of a dock area. A playboy bunny poses on the end of the pier. USS Springfield (CLG-7) makes its approach in the background en route to the docking area. Five playboy bunnies wave to sailors aboard USS Springfield as the ship eases up towards the dock area. A navy band plays on the pier and a ship in the background. Line handlers handle lines on the dock in the foreground. A crowd on the pier behind a roped off area. Playboy bunnies, with one leading the band. Playboy bunnies perform on the pier. The sailors toss their white hats down to playboy bunnies. Men aboard a ship throw their hats down. Playboy bunnies don the white hats tossed down from the ship. They do a small act on the pier. Men at quarters. Playboy bunnies do a twist on the pier. Visitors and dependents on the pier. A woman waves up towards the ship. A sleeping child in the arms of his mother. Playboy bunnies on the brow wait to board the ship. Visitors disembark from the ship. Playboy bunnies move up over the brow.
USS Springfield return to Boston, Massachusetts. A ceremony in progress on board the ship. U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Means Johnston speaks at the ceremony. Mayor N.O. Howarth of Massachusetts is present. Johnston at a podium. A Lt. Governor Sargent speaks from the podium under 6" guns. The commanding officer receives a scroll from the Lt. Governor Sargent. Lt. Governor Sargent presents a folded flag to the C.O. A cameraman with his movie camera. Johnston introduces Mayor N.O. Howarth of Springfield, Illinois. The Mayor steps up to the podium and speaks. Mayor Howarth holds the key to the city. The key to the city is presented to the C.O. by Mayor Howarth. Crew stands at quarters during the ceremony. Officers and men during the ceremony. Mayor C.V. Ryan, Springfield, Massachusetts, steps up to the podium to give his remarks. Mayor Ryan speaks from the podium. The C.O. speaks to Mayor Howarth. Dignitaries stand at one side during the ceremony. A captain poses with the Mayors and other dignitaries. Craig Trefethen, SN, seated in a wheelchair. A sailor lost his legs when a mooring line snapped aboard Springfield in Naples. Craig Trefethen smiles for the camera. Johnston and visitors look at the Terrier missile. Missiles on a launcher in the foreground. The Terrier missile slides onto a launcher in the left foreground. The fantail of the ship, showing a UH-2A copter parked in the background.
Thrills at the National Air Races in Cleveland, Ohio. A V-formation of P-l2s in flight. Crowd-filled stands at the Cleveland Air Races. A formation of U.S. Navy F4B-4s in sets of three in flight Clarence MacArthur flies a 1910 Curtiss pusher-type aircraft. Waco Taperwing aircraft trails smoke in a dive, levels off and climbs. Milo Burcham flies in a P-12 aircraft. Mary Pickford looks up at the sky and points. Two policemen, a civilian and an army officer stand in the background. A crowd-filled grandstand. Milo Burcham in the aircraft rolls over and flies upside down. He flies low over the ground and goes into a vertical climb. People stand behind a fence. A Kinner Bird minus a wheel in flight. Its engine stops. It touches the ground down and skids. Parachutists jump from two Ford Trimotor C-3As. A number of parachutists descend and two of the parachutists land.
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