President Franklin Roosevelt along with Vice President Garner and other dignitaries gather for the 77th annual congress in Washington DC. President addresses nation in conference hall full of legislators ,reporters,and photographers. President says 'America must spent billions on weapons to aid the embattled democracies of world'. President promises to send in number, ships,tanks,planes and guns to their aid. All at conference applause President's noble notion. January 1941. (World War II period).
President Franklin Roosevelt's diplomat Harry Hopkins exits his car and makes his way towards the Pan American Airbase. Surrounded by press and photographers he arrives at dock. Hopkins waves to the crowd and leaves for Lisbon in the Yankee Clipper Boeing-314. January 1941.
Thousands of New York residents gather on streets to celebrate New Year's eve of 1941. Scenes of neon lights and traffic of Times Square. Many lit signs including a Automat sign. Close up view of lit marquee for George White's Gay White Way. Women Dancers present a wonderful show. Views of Chorus Girls in costume during the show. Many men and women gathered at night club to eat,drink and dance. Quaint and colorful faces can be seen. An overhead view of city streets flooded with merrymakers. More neon lights and signs including one for Vaudeville. Marquee scrolls on New York Times Building with message wishing everyone a happy new year.
Thousands of mummers parade the streets of Philadelphia on New Year's day. Revelers dressed in amusingly elaborate costumes exhibit a sparkling show. Various decorative displays and movable scenery can also be seen. People gather in number across streets and witness the colorful event. Some men dressed as women (in drag). A costumed pair are announced with a banner that reads 'Marie Antoinette...Louis XVI' while another vignette in which crude dentistry is mimed is identified by a sign on a car that reads, 'Duke and Duchess of Winsores Arrive for Big Yank' Many performers are seen in blackface.
Views of British troops and civilians celebrating country's second war time Christmas in England. Gifts and champagne bottles under a Christmas Tree. Group of British troops gather around a Christmas tree, taking gifts from under it. Views of evacuated British children attending a Christmas party inside a large Anderson Shelter (air-raid shelter). The children wear party hats and bat a balloon around for fun.
Free French General Charles de Gaulle, accompanied by Admiral Emile Henry Muselier, walks across a gangplank from a large warship to visit the French submarine,Surcouf, during World War 2. They walk past sailors presenting arms in salute. View of the Surcouf's unique (for a submarine) turret with twin 8-inch guns. From aft of the conning tower, they watch demonstration of a sliding hangar for the boat's observation plane. View of the crew lined up in dress uniforms, on deck. General de Gaulle and Admiral Muselier conversing with the submarine's officers.
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