Travelers make a booking for travel in the R.M.S. Queen Mary ocean liner inside the booking office of Thomas Cook & Son’s travel agency. Man fills up a form while a couple view brochure. A sign reads “Bookings Here R.M.S. Queen Mary”. Hand filling up a form. A couple speaks to the travel agent. Clients booking trips through travel agents in desks. Man shakes hands with clients. Travel agents fill up forms, answer phone calls and speak to clients inside the office.
Wintertime View, after snowfall, with snow banks along Fifth Avenue in New York City. Taxis and buses moving on the avenue. Door mat reads:"587 Thos. Cook & Son." Pedestrians in winter coats and hats. People enter and come out of door marked 'American Express Company'. Men standing under sign 'Thos. Cook and Son Wagons-Lits Inc.'. People entering travel office of 'Thos. Cook and Son'. Empire State Building visible in mist in background.
Crowds in New York City celebrate end of World War 1 near time of Armistice. View from above of crowds on 5th Avenue, in Manhattan, gathered at Madison Square, around the Altar of Liberty designed by architect Thomas Hastings, to honor homecoming American soldiers. Camera pans across celebrants waving hats, hands, and flags. Scene shifts to the financial district, and the George Washington Statue at Federal Hall, Wall Street, which has been draped with American flag and signs reading: "Liberty cannot die." A clergyman standing below the statue, paces back and forth. Closeup of a bearded Jewish man, wrapped in a Yiddish newspaper announcing the armistice. He is blowing a horn and has an American flag and a blue and white Jewish flag fastened at his back. Camera pans over young women dressed in costumes as: soldiers, nurses, drum majorettes, the statue of liberty, red cross workers, and Uncle Sam. View shifts to an effigy of the German Kaiser suspended high above the street, between two buildings. Men ride on the outside of a car. One "chokes" an small effigy of the Kaiser while another pummels it. Another crowd raises an effigy of the Kaiser aloft holding a white flag of surrender. A man wearing a grotesque mask of the Kaiser, with Kammerad written across the forehead. He holds an American flag. Vehicles, including a horse-drawn carriage, move along a street surrounded by vast crowds. Confetti flies through the air. Jubilant crowd wave newspapers with headline: Germany Surrenders. A double-decker bus seen in background.
A man wearing a cowboy hat stands near a group of canvas tents in Williamson West Virginia, where, during a labor dispute with coal mine owners, striking mine workers were evicted from their homes, and established a migrant tent community. An African American family poses for the camera outside a tent in the community, including a man, a woman, and their children. Another family is shown, with close-up view of a young, disheveled girl with a dirty face holding a small puppy dog.
Two men load WMCA station wagon with equipment for an on-the-spot report. Station wagon on its way to the UN building along busy streets of Manhattan, New York City. It reaches its destination. Men edit and re-record each day's UN session taken by tape recorder. View back in studio of WMCA radio station with men working with the recording.
Car with letters of radio station WMCA drives by. Announcer says baseball is one of the station's most popular programs; the station broadcasts home games of the New York Giants. Large crowd of fans in suits and hats enter the Giants' stadium, the Polo Grounds. View of packed stands as announcer is seen talking into microphone. Fans enthusiastically cheer action from a Giants baseball game against the Brooklyn Dodgers. Clip transitions to other WMCA programs. Announcer in Broadway theater district interviews man on busy sidewalk at dusk during program 'Man on the Street'. Marquee of Victoria Theatre (136 West 46th Street) in background advertises movie "Ten Tall Men" starring Burt Lancaster. Dancers in public park do a "square dance" broadcast by the station. View of many couples participating in the square dance. Madison Square Garden marquee at night.
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