African American jazz artists in a music recording studio in New York City. Ella Fitzgerald and Ray Brown Trio. Ray Brown plays the double bass, hank Jones on piano, and vocalist, Ella Fitzgerald, perform 'how High the Moon', which they had recorded for Decca Records Company.
African American famous jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald singing accompanied by jazz artists of the Ray Brown trio (unseen), in a recording studio in New York City. Close view of Ella Fitzgerald singing 'how High the Moon'.
A U.S. Army Reorientation film. Recreational facilities in New York City's Central Park. Aerial view of Central Park with skyscrapers of Manhattan and skyline of New York City seen flanking it. View of 59th street and park entrance. View of horse-drawn hansom cabs and the Seal Pool. People feeding pigeons. Children in park. Cart pony rides at the zoo. People watch zoo animals like chimpanzees. Various lakes in park. People on boats in lakes. People fishing including a boy standing on a rock fishing. View of Bethesda Fountain. Various statues. Weather station and Cleopatra's Needle. People enjoy concerts at Central Park Mall. President Harry S Truman makes an address in the park. People enjoy Square dancing with caller, dancing at the Tavern On The Green, playing tennis, softball game with young men or teenage boys, basketball game with teenage boys, football, horseback riding, winter sports including sleds in the snow and horse-drawn sleigh rides, kids making snowmen, warmer weather activities like pitching horseshoes, playing checkers, people laying on the ground and relaxing on benches and grass.
Men reading various newspapers (mostly from New York) in the United States. Views of several newspaper headlines such as 'Truman says Russia set of Atomic blast' after President Truman revealed to the American public that the Soviet Union had successfully detonated an atomic bomb in a weapons test. Traffic on a road. Man in 1940's suit and hat standing on a street reading a newspaper. (World War II period).
U.S. receives a train of gifts in New York City from France (showing their appreciation for relief goods sent by the Americans following World War 2). French freighter Magellan, with "Merci America" painted on her sides, arrives at New York Harbor. It carries a train of 49 French railroad box cars filled with tens of thousands of gifts of gratitude sent by the people of France. Government officials greet each other. A railroad box car is lowered on the dock area from the ship. A sign on the box car : 'Homme 40, Chevaux (enlong) 8'. People stand on either side of a road to welcome and look at the train of gifts while it passes along the streets of the city. Government officials seated in a car. A band plays musical instruments in a parade to welcome the train.
Reporters and photographers in lower level of the U.S. Courthouse at Foley Square, in New York City, attempt to photograph Judith Coplon as she is escorted, under arrest, by FBI agent (Robert Granville?). A man, under arrest (Valentine Gubitchev?) hides his face as he is escorted through the reporters and photographers, who later stream out of the lower level entrance of the building. View of the Courthouse building against the sky.