Geography and buildings of New York City. Riverside Drive along the Hudson River. Cars and automobile traffic on the streets and roads. Buildings and pedestrians along the road. The Tomb of General Grant, on Riverside Drive. Visitors moving in and coming out of the tomb. A statue on top of the entrance written with words, 'Let us have peace'.
Documentary about geography, markets and culture of New York Americans of future in the congested lower East Side. A crowded tenement district with shops on both sides of street. Road busy with merchandise and sidewalks of these roads, completely packed with pedestrians. A busy market in crowded ghetto. Fruit and vegetable merchants in the market. Sign in background on storefront reads, "Bokschizky & Rotkowitz 252 Pharmacists and Chemists Women buying and bargaining for the merchandise. Children in the market. A public procession passing by on the streets. A large group of marchers carrying a giant American flag together, leads the parade.
United States Presidential elections of 1948. Women and girls feed a donkey, there parodying the democratic party, and they place a poster on it. The poster on donkey reads 'Our next President-Thomas Dewey'. A crowd of women stands near the donkey, at the railway station terminal in Junction City, Kansas. A train arrives and emerges Thomas Dewey, the Republican candidate for U.S. Presidential elections. Women pose the donkey in front of him. He addresses the crowd. Guards control the crowd. Men show placards to Dewey as he finishes his speech and move inside.
National Blind Golf Championship played at Florida, United States. Blind golfers at the golf course posing and take their shots. All competitors at the championship play their shots. A woman guides the blind golfers. Participant measures the distance of ball and hole, walking with his coach. Victorious golfer given the prize.
A VC-137 Stratoliner residential aircraft of the United States Air Force One parked at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland near Washington DC. Crewmen at the base. President of United States Richard Nixon arrives in a helicopter and walks towards the Air Force One plane. The new name of the plane 'Spirit of 76' written on its nose. Pilot of the plane looks from cockpit as President talks to an official and poses for a photo. President Nixon walks over loading ramp and climbs stairs of now the plane. He turns and waves to the crowd. Crowd of men, women and children watch the plane taking off.
Stage show on skates featured in New York Ice Follies at the Madison Square Garden. Figure skaters with rings dance in formations. Skaters in disguise as donkey takes rounds of the skating ring. Skaters, man and woman perform a stage play. Skater girls' chorus' dance displays various formations. Bess Ehrhardt and Roy Shipstead take stellar honors.
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