Girls and boys buy records at a record store in New York. A window display of the music store. Record albums named 'Hot Jazz' and 'On The Town' displayed in the window. The girls and boys look at the records at the shop. The girls play a phonograph and keep time to the rhythm of the music. One boy and girl try dancing the Lindy Hop. A tall man in a suit and hat keeps appearing, carrying records high above the kids, as he moves through the crowded store.
Two men operate controls and switches in the broadcast control room of the National Broadcasting Company in New York, United States.
U.S. troops return home in troop transports after World War II. The troop transports escorted by destroyers and navy blimps steam into New York Harbor past the Statue of Liberty. View of New York skyline and coastline. Ships spray water. The troops aboard the ships. U.S. flag flying on ships docking into New York Harbor. Returning servicemen are greeted by their families.
The United States aircraft carrier Franklin D Roosevelt (CVA-42) commissioned in New York, United States. The United States ships Macon (CA-132), Helena(CA-75), Enterprise(CVS-6), and Midway(CVA-41) and other Navy vessels in Fleet Revies on Hudson River, New York. Planes in formation flight overhead as officers salute. A dirigible flies overhead and a sailor salutes. A ship with name 'Porter' painted on its side.. Guns firing salute from the USS Midway (CVA-41) as smoke rises. Ships underway in Hudson River with New York Skyscrapers in the background. (World War II period).
The Al Smith Memorial hospital wing opens at St. Vincent’s Hospital Manhattan in New York, United States. New York Cardinal Francis Spellman speaks about the inauguration of the drive to build the Al Smith Memorial wing at St. Vincent’s Hospital Manhattan (203 W 12th St, New York, NY 10011, United States). He says that the hospital would aim at serving the needy irrespective of caste, color, and creed. The Al Smith Society meets to lend support for the construction of the Al Smith Hospital. Mayor Fiorello La Guardia of New York cuts a cake which is in the shape of a hat. Men and women sing a song.
A 1941 Chrysler Plymouth car arrives at curb and former U.S. soldier opens door for his British wife and their child. They go up steps to his home, where his mother warmly greets her new daughter-in-law and baby. View inside home where the couple and baby sit with mother-in-law and family dog. The couple play with their baby boy, and they kiss.