Foreign students at the International House of University of California, Berkeley, converse with each other while dining in a dining area. Brazilian student hosts the newcomers. He is recounting is time in New York. Scene shifts to New York City. A foreign student walks on the sidewalk and stops at a coffee shop in New York. Student finds it difficult to place an order while he converses with the waiter. An old friend joins him. Friends chat. Friends leave the coffee shop and stroll through the streets. Views of pedestrians and traffic with Washington Square Arch in the background. Students visit an art show in New York's Greenwich Village. They look at the paintings along the wall and converse with an artist on the roadside. Artist shows his product. Back at Bekeley in the dining room, a student lights up his cigarettes. Students dine.
News headlines in the New York Times. A scrolling news marquee at the building of New York Times: "Read The New York Times", "Stalin Blames Britain U.S. And France For Failure To Solve Berlin Dispute-- Charges West Follows Warmongering Policy But Discounts Possibility Of New World Conflict" and "Stalin Flays Former British Prime Minister Churchill As 'Chief Instigator of War' ". Pedestrians and motor traffic in foreground. A scrolling news marquee: " Stalin Blames Britain U.S. And European Revival", "Western Diplomat Describe Stalin's Attack On Allied Powers As Propaganda Statement" and "Britain U.S. And France Halt Heavy Flow Of Western Marks Out Of Berlin". Two men and a couple look at the marquee. Views of a man looking at the marquee.
People line up at a cinema theater in New York City. They buy movie tickets at the box office and enter the theater lobby. Uniformed theater ushers hurry ticket buyers along. Audience of men and women watches movie and they applaud. Several close-up shots of faces of the audience members as they watch the movie. One patron does not applaud and seems to wonder why most others do.
Composer Hanns Eisler and his wife at the New York City airport. He is moving to London by plane. He decides to leave voluntarily as he is facing Deportation charges. His brother Communist Gerhard Eisler and his wife bid them farewell at the airport. Aircraft in the background. Hanns Eisler and his wife board the aircraft. Plane taxis.
Tug boats pushing an oil barge across Hudson River in United States. Coastline in the background. A view of buildings in Lower Manhattan.
Tug boats push an oil barge across Hudson River in United States. Motor ship Vulcania underway. The motor ship Vulcania moves down the river. Clear daytime views of skyline of Lower Manhattan, New York City. View of skyscrapers and ships on Hudson. Smoke rises in the background.