Opening title "The Old Home Town". A young woman opens the front door of a house with a Service Flag in the window during World War 2. Service Flag displayed in house window showing one star, meaning 1 person in the household is serving in the military. Camera pans inside living room, displaying photographs of relatives serving in the military. Woman writes a letter to her son. Hand writing out letter with pen. View of the First National Bank of Springfield on Main Street, Springfield New Jersey. Woman buying ticket at movie theater box office. Movie theater displays sign that reads “Buy War Bonds and Stamps Here”. A woman enters Hoffman Drugstore Luncheonette with her child. High School students drink soda while sitting at drugstore counter while soda clerk fills soda from soda fountain. View of downtown Springfield, New Jersey. Women out shopping and eating ice cream in downtown Springfield, New Jersey. Children exit the James Caldwell Elementary School at 36 Caldwell Pl, Springfield Township, NJ 07081 and line up in front of the police crossing guard. Mailman walking down residential street and delivering mail to a woman at a house. Smiling woman closes door with Service Flag displayed. Woman shares letter with neighbor. Women read a V-Mail from abroad. Paperboy riding bike throws evening newspaper to porch. Man gets newspaper from porch. Man reads newspaper while sitting in living chair. Wife and daughter read from behind the man reading newspaper. The family reads the newspaper together. A Lions Club Honor Roll signage containing every person fighting abroad in Springfield, New Jersey. View of Springfield Township military Honor Roll. A Lions Club member adds a star beside the name Howard Lott, a soldier who died fighting in the Mediterranean. Two Lions Club members look mournfully at sign. A “Handy-Man Association” meets together near the Lions Club Honor Roll signage. Old man sawing wood while wife watches. Old man fixes bureau drawer. Man cleans window while on ladder. Old man climbs ladder to remove window screen. Woman gives doorknob to a man and he re-attaches it to a door. Man paints a porch while a woman sweeps. Townspeople enter the First Presbyterian Church in Springfield, New Jersey (37 Church Mall, Springfield Township, NJ 07081, United States). Townspeople attend church service. Pastor delivering his sermon. Women lower their heads in prayer during church service. View of bell tower of the First Presbyterian Church in Springfield, New Jersey.
A huge crowd on the street in New York City. New York criminal, Francis Crowley, fires his gun from window at police outside the rooming house on West 91st Street where he stays with girlfriend, Helen Walsh. Onlookers running toward the rooming house on West 91st Street, where policemen enter to apprehend Francis Crowley. Police assemble outside rooming house. Police arrest Helen Walsh and takes her to police car as onlookers watch.
Lord Mayor of Liverpool, Ald. Edwin Thompson, talks with New York City Mayor Jimmy Walker while walking out of the New York City Hall (City Hall Park, New York, NY 10007, United States) during the Lord Mayor’s visit to improve trade relations between Britain and the United States. The Lord Mayor of Liverpool, the British commercial delegation, Mayor Walker, and other officials pose together for a group photograph outside the New York City Hall.
Primitive lifestyle of a man from Fort Myers, Florida. Man, wearing only a loincloth, spears fish and crabs from river. Man returns to his makeshift wooden hut. Man makes a fire using a bow drill and adds a bundle of dry leaves and branches. Man eats only with his bare hands.
Express passenger train, the 20th Century Limited, travels from Croton-Harmon station. The train is pulled by New York Central Hudson locomotive number 5453, a 4-6-4 "Hudson" steam locomotive with streamlining designed by Henry Dreyfuss. View of locomotive engineer looking out. Aerial view of train speeding down track. Passengers dine in the lavish art deco-style dining car of the 20th Century Limited. Train passes at ground level. Passengers read newspapers, smoke and socialize onboard the 20th Century Limited train. A man and a woman drink by the bar of the 20th Century Limited. Passengers in the rear observation car. A woman pulls away shower curtain after taking a shower onboard train. Woman goes to bed in a private compartment onboard the 20th Century Limited. POV on track as locomotive speeds overhead.
Queen Frederika of Greece visits the United States with daughter, Princess Irene. Onboard the S.S. United States, seven-year-old Chrysa Nichols of the Greek American Institute gives roses and a kiss to Queen Frederika. The Queen and her party pose for cameramen operating motion picture cameras. Queen Frederika attends the reception celebrating Barnard College’s 75th anniversary (after she receives an Honorary degree in Law from Columbia University). Barnard College President Dr. Rosemary Park, Queen Frederika of Greece, Princess Irene, United States Secretary of State Dean Rusk and his wife, Virginia Rusk, pose together for photographs.
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