Signboard of Unemployment Relief Demonstration at Union Square. "Daily Worker" newspaper held up with headline, "'Forgotten' of N.Y. Fight For Their Demands Today As Wall St. Places Roosevelt In White House." Crowd with speaker at Union Square during the Great Depression. Huge Crowd at Union Square including many seeking jobs and assistance including food relief. Policemen on horseback in background containing demonstrators. Workers listening. Marchers with placards arrive. Views of faces as the police controls the crowd. Women and young people walking. Various placards and posters including "We Demand Free Food and Clothing."
Crowd marching from Union Square to City Hall in New York City, to demand trucks for trip to Washington DC. People marching with banners seeking relief from unemployment during the Great Depression. Police can be seen on horseback controlling crowd. Close view of a banner which reads "Answer Bank Holiday with Rent Holiday." Women and young workers walking. Other placards, signs, and posters like, "Brighton Beach Unemployed Council" and "We want relief not military training" and "We demand hot lunches."
People dancing on music played by Jimmy Dorsey and his orchestra. Newpaper columnist Leonard Lyons' column about 400 Club. Entrance to The "400" Restaurant shown with signboard "The "400" Restaurant Home of the Name Bands! Jimmy Dorsey and his Orchestra.". Men and women dancing Jimmy Dorsey playing clarinet with orchestra in background.
Jimmy Dorsey and his orchestra performing at 400 Club. Close view of jazz and big band star Jimmy Dorsey playing clarinet with his orchestra in the background. Orchestra men with trumpets and saxophones. Men and women dancing on music played by Jimmy Dorsey and orchestra.
Crowd gathered around 6:00pm on May 14, 1948, outside the Washington DC office of the Jewish Agency, at 2210 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington DC. View of happy, waving crowd from camera position in an upstairs window. View on building steps of dignitaries including Eliahu Elath (later the first Israeli Ambassador to the United States), Rabbi Novak of the Washington Mizrachi leaders, Sumner Welles, and New York Congressman Sol Bloom. View of a boy (Oren Zinder, son of Zvi and Honda Zinder) standing in the upstairs window, preparing to unfurl the flag of Israel in front of the building. View of the flag in position, and the crowd waving.
Israeli flag flying from passenger ship Kedmah at Marseilles port. Notice for passengers showing departure and boarding time. People up gangplank. French newspaper headlines reads terrorist activities in Israel. Ships funnel as whistle blown. People waving ship off. Jewish passengers aboard the ship. Clip ends with brief, unrelated scene of a crowd in France gathered on the steps of the Musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris (later the Palais Galliera in Paris). Flags of many nations are hanging from the stone colums in front of the building.
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