The President and Andre Malraux, French Cultural Affairs Minister, lead a VIP reception to the first United States exhibition of the Mona Lisa painting. President makes a speech and photographers taking pictures of event. People stepping up National Gallery of Art museum. Sign board of 'Mona Lisa' shown. View of men and women in queue. Nearly about 10,000 people queued up to see the Mona Lisa painting.
Aerials of New York City and Empire State Building (20 W 34th St., New York, NY 10001). A traffic jam in Manhattan. Men and women near the building. Firemen inside the building examining the areas caught on fire. Nine different floors from the 24th to 68th are caught on fire. Exteriors of building.
A chimp is taught how to skate. Chimp shows some skating tricks, sits on a chair. Young boys and girls are spectators.
Strike of workers in a wage dispute spreads to Philadelphia's transportation system. People walking to work in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia. Transport union protesting for pay hike. Streetcars, subways and buses lie idle. 'Station Closed' sign at Philadelphia subway entrance. Huge crowd of people walking to get to work, waiting at railway station and on streets for transportation. View of empty 46th street metro rail station in Philadelphia. View of taxis on streets and a press company without workers. Buildings and shops along streets of downtown Philadelphia. A line of African American men and women hitchhiking in downtown Philadelphia to get a ride. Group of 5 people runs to catch an available Philadelphia taxicab. Scene changes to New York City where striking newspaper workers form a picket line. Empty newspaper offices are shown. Longshoreman dock workers on strike so office workers are seen hoisting a giant rope and assisting the Cunard Line Ocean liner Queen Mary (RMS Queen Mary) in docking operations at New York harbor slip covered in thin ice. Cunard Queen Mary passengers carrying their own luggage at the dock area due to the labor strike.
Italian Prime Minister Amintore Fanfani arrives at the White House at Washington DC for an official visit to the United States. He is met by United States President John F. Kennedy. Press cameramen taking pictures. View of President John Kennedy and Prime of Minister of Italy Amintore Fanfani inside White House talking.
Models wear fashionable hats by Parisian designers in the United States. Women wearing different kinds of hats for 1963 Spring collection are shown. Wide brimmed and flowery hats are shown, including the Cartwheel Hat, Cloche Hat, Pillbox Hat. A woman wearing a Pillbox Hat smokes a cigarette. Fashion models wearing bonnets.
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