Nighttime scenes in Harlem, New York. Count Basie's bar at 132nd St. and Seventh Ave. in New York's Harlem. Neon sign at Big Wilt's, an African American nightclub (2294 7th Avenue New York City). Apex Beauty School stands above Big Wilt's. Neon lighted signs and marquees read "Moondog with Ace and the Kings.", The Harlem Moon bar and grill. Signs read "Barbecue" , "Chop Suey" , and "Chow Mein" Jim Moon Chinese restaurant. A sign reads "Join now NAACP Applications available here". Facades of Bermuda Bar and Silver Rail bar. Rates of fish, shrimp and chicken are displayed at the Gilmar Self Service Food Center in Harlem.
Night scenes in Harlem, New York City. A cross marquee reads "Mount Olivet Church" (201 Malcolm X Blvd, New York, NY 10027, United States) in Harlem, an African American neighborhood. Neon lights and marquees read "Hollywood Cafe", "Kelly Hotel" and "Bolivar Bar". Meat items and their rates on display at butcher’s shop storefront. Different parts of meat on display. Marquees of bar and hotels glitter in night. Wines and liquors shop. Man enters a liquor store. A sign reads "Eshad Ali". The Bombay India Restaurant.
Nighttime scenes in Harlem. Cars on street in Harlem, New York City. Shops at roadside and their marquees. Lighted marquee signs of different clubs and shops read "Blumstein", "Ripley", "National Shoes" and "Vim". Apollo Theater sign also seen.
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.
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