Scenes of fire fighters battling fire at the Lee Brothers warehouse at 2296 Eighth Avenue at 123rd Street in New York City. The warehouse blazes. Firemen spray water from hoses at the blaze. Two men talk to each other at the site. View of damaged fire fighting equipment, cars, and debris. (FDNY Firemen Elbert Hardman and Nelson Tuite, both of Engine 36 were operating the deckpipe on the 1929 Seagrave hose wagon of Engine 36, when an explosion blew out the top corner of the building front wall. Both fire fighters were killed and the hose wagon was destroyed.) The firemen evacuate casualties and transfer them into ambulance. Thick ice covers the building from freezing temperatures, after the blaze was extinguished. (World War II period).
Vittorio Campolo (sometimes Victorio Campolo or Vitorio Campolo), an Argentine boxer, runs on a treadmill in New York City. Two men take measurements of Campolo. They walk under his outstretched arms. Campolo practices on a boxing dummy wearing a shirt "Everlast Boxing Dummy". Campolo eats spaghetti noodles while dressed in a suit.
A collapsed building in Chelsea neighborhood of New York City. Rescue workers and firemen digging quickly in the ruins. Ten people were hurt when the old building collapsed at 8th avenue and 23rd street. Policemen stand near wreckage of the building. Workmen who had repairing the floors and pedestrians walking in front of the building had been buried in the ruins.
Children walk on sidewalks, heading to school. Pet dog follows a boy to school. The boy enters the school house together with the dog, then exits a moment later to leave the dog outside the school. Young school boys queued up in school. African American school children in a line. Young African American school children dance. Boys and girl entering school buildings.
A working dog, named Bella, runs errands for a woman, in New York City, United States. The woman with the dog in front of a building at the base of a flight of steps. The woman gives the dog a note for a merchant. The dog, with the paper in its mouth, goes to a shopkeeper and delivers the note. The man goes inside, comes out with a hatbox that the dog brings back to the woman. The woman then gives Bella, a letter to mail. She then climbs up the steps and goes inside the building. Bella, the dog, with the envelope in her mouth, goes to the corner on a busy street. When the light changes, the dog crosses the street and goes to a mail box, where she puts paws on a man, who takes the letter from her and puts it in the mail box. Bella, the dog who performed the tricks and stunts, is seen "reading" a newpaper, with a cigarette holder and lit cigarette it its mouth.
An aircraft crash on the roof of a building in New York City, United States. A large group of people rush on the roads of a street. Buildings on both sides of the street. Policemen among the group. The wreckage of a crashed aircraft on the roof of a building. The pilot stuck inside the aircraft. A policeman watches from an area toward the side of the building. Men gather on the ground below. A few men on the building helping a passenger who jumps on a parachute. The survivor Robert J. Bailie, who survives the crash.