Newsreel titled "AH, spring: circus opening makes it official" shows that with the onset of spring, people enjoy the performance of circus artists at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey circus artists perform acrobatics and trapeze acts as they hang upside down from ropes. A woman does juggling act as she is suspended from a rope by her hair. Elephants and horses also perform to amuse the crowds.
Film opens with view of Movie marquee showing film:"Echenme al vampiro * Evangelina Elizondo* en Rapto al Sol." Latin American music is heard in background. Various business signs are seen, for Gilroy & McLoughlin Bar & Grill,cabaret; Hair straightened; Various other shop windows showing womens clothing; Bric- a -brac including large photo of President John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline; Religious items; Restaurant serving "CuchiFritos, y, Pasteles;"clothing on sale; Musicians and entertainers advertised; and numerous other similar storefront views. Views of busy sidewalk merchants selling variety of goods. What appears to be a section of the Cross Bronx Expressway, under construction above the street, in the background. Grocer operating outdoor fruit and vegetable outlet on the sidewalk. Many customers gathered around him. Pedestrians on crowded sidewalk. A little girl dressed in white (perhaps for a first communion). A man dispensing shaved ice or "sno-cone" drinks from a sidewalk cart. Furniture for sale displayed on sidewalk in front of a store. A man and woman looking it over. A couple with a small baby. Scene shifts fo a quiet street and sidewalk where a couple walks and a boy rides a bicycle. The street and sidewalk look wet. View of roof tops and back yards with clothes on lines to dry. Camera pans over roof tops. More clothes lines and families seen seated on fire escapes. A boy picking up items near a large heap of trash in a vacant lot. Children playing various games on an empty street. Two old women walking slowly on the walkway. Women with small children conversing on a building stoop. Young men gathering together and "rough housing." They are copied by small boys who fight with one another. Young man and woman with a baby stroll on the sidewalk.
A fashion show of 1960s era hats in New York City. Men and women seated in a room. The statue of a woman. A woman wearing a astro hat, of space age or space probe design, with thick skin edges with chin ties. Two models: The women on the left wears a hat with a knitted crown and a neck scarf and the woman on the right wears a deep crowned hat with a leather brim. A woman shows off a deep fitting hat with ostrich feathers. Two women wearing mink fur hats. A women wearing a hat. The crowd which includes fashion editors watch. The words 'Let's all go - Go in a Hat' written on the backdrop of the stage. Women wearing dresses and matching hats walk across the stage.
Shoppers at the E. J. Korvette store at 45th street in New York City. Santa Claus stands in front of the store, ringing a bell to raise money for the Volunteers of America. In the store, children play with toys under a sign reading 'Toyland.' Views of the store while riding down the escalator. A woman dressed in a fur coat shops in the housewares department. In Concord, California, college students pack gifts that are being sent to United States soldiers fighting war in Vietnam. View of entrance to Travis Air Force Base. The workers for Operation Christmas Star load gifts for the GIs into a Douglas C-124 Globemaster cargo plane at Travis Air Force Base. Students watch as the plane takes off. (Vietnam War period).
Children and adults buy gifts and toys during Christmas celebrations in New York. Children enjoy colorful and lighted swings in shops. Views of a "wedding in India" theme in a Manhattan shop window, featuring animatronic characters. Children with their mothers watch various toys and artistic puppet shows from windows of a shop. Lighting on skyscrapers and roads of New York City. Lighting on items kept on display in various shops including Saks Fifth Avenue. Tourists watch the lighting and decoration on Christmas tree at Radio City Plaza (Rockefeller Plaza). Ice skaters at the Rockefeller Center ice rink skate by an illuminated Christmas tree.
Pope Paul VI becomes the first Roman Catholic Pontiff to visit the United States. Aerial view of buildings and skyscrapers of New York City skyline. Brief external view of Saint Patrick's Cathedral (5th Ave, New York, NY 10022, United States). Pope Paul VI leads a prayer during a mass at Saint Patrick's Cathedral. Aerial view of United Nations Building (405 East 42nd Street, New York, NY, 10017, USA). Pope Paul VI addresses the United Nations General Assembly in New York, calling the UN a man's last hope for peace.