Camera pans over name of new "Harlem Boys' Club" and then to inscription on building reading: "The Children's Aid Society of the City of New York." A small African American boy walks along the sidewalk and pauses to look up at the building. The scene is repeated with another take. Closeup of the boy. observers in the background. A girl enters new building, with cornerstone reading: "AD 1940." Several boys and girls of elementary school age enter the building, one at a time. African American children playing on swings in a play ground. A man pushes a small child on a swing. An apartment house directly across the steet from the playground. View across the playground of the swings and houses across the street. A very small boy walking on the playground.
View of main academic campus building, Rosewald Hall, of Dillard College for African American students in Gentilly neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana. Inside, a woman issues books to students at a library. Young men and women study in the library. Men read. A student writes on a notepad. Professors seen teaching in various classes, as well-dressed students in suits and dresses listen. A professor explains a diagram on a blackboard describing the anatomy of a cell.
An African American artist opens his coat in United States. R W Lindsey prepares a fish sculpture with a child. A woman studies a book. Richard William Lindsey at a class observes students' paintings. Malvin Gray Johnson comes with a board, sits and paints. Paintings at a wall. W Ellisworth Artis prepares a sculpture. People at an exhibition of Spanish African American art. Next scene appears unrelated, and shows pedestrian traffic on a busy New York City street, with many men and women walking on the sidewalk beside stores and shops. Next scene shows a stopped subway train at a station in New York City. Men and women and a few police officers exit the train onto a crowded platform, as other riders wait to board the railroad train. Next scene returns to an art studio view, with African American painters at work. Final scenes show a Harmon Communities map depicting Long Island in New York, and view of a train passing slowly through a switch yard area or marshaling yard.
Various buildings of New York City seen as camera pans from left to right and also shows a sailing boat at port in New York City United States. Palmer Hayden paints at New York waterfront. Dignitaries and arts supporters including Mrs Harmon at Spanish African American art painting exhibition by Pastor Argudin y Pedroso. James L Allen in his photography studio. A woman prepares a sculpture.
Looking up Broadway from 69th street in Upper West Side of New York City. Automobile traffic. Sign reads "Hippodrome". Herald Square with Times Building in distance. Point House, Hamburg American Building, Battery Place Station. Battery Park and Aquarium.
View from a rider on an elevated train of the IRT (Interborough Rapid Transit) system in Manhattan, New York City. Lower Broadway and Singer building in the distance. Buildings on sides of railroad tracks. The train proceeds along the 9th Avenue section, where at the 72nd Street Station, the Acker, Merrall & Condit building (Wine & Liquor Merchants) at 160 West 72nd Street, can be seen from the train on the Upper West Side.
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