A United Nations Security Council session held in Lake Success, New York during the Cold War. Representatives of different nations are seated. One delegate takes his seat and speaks about the Communist Coup of February 1948 in Czechoslovakia and Czech refugees.
Film begins showing location of New York City on a world globe, at the mouth of the Hudson River on the East Coast of the United States. It transitions to an aerial view of the Southern tip of Manhattan Island at the junction of the Hudson and East Rivers and slowly shows views moving Northward along the Hudson River. Piers along the Hudson are visible. Scene shifts to above those piers, looking South at the cluster of Manhattan skyscraper buildings, and beyond to New York Harbor, the borough of Queens, and Brooklyn, and beyond to Long Island in the misty distance. Next the skyscrapers are seen from Queens,across the East River. A large ocean liner is seen underway in New York Harbor, among ferry boats, barges, and tugboats. The Statue of Liberty is seen in the background. An animated map shows regions around New York and traces the Hudson and Mohawk valleys into the Great Lakes. The map is then overlaid with numerous lines representing transportation routes by lend, water, and air. View of Brooklyn Bridge, wharfs, and Manhattan skyline in hazy background. Seagoing freighters loading and unloading at New York's piers. A truck and other cargoes being moved by cranes. Passenger trains moving in the New York city area. View of the famous Beaux-Arts style Penn Station by architects McKim, Mead, and White, at West 34th Street and Eighth Avenue, in Manhattan. Train station interior crowded with travelers and commuters. Commercial aircraft taxiing at a New York area airport. Closeup of two young children watching the planes. Passengers deplaning from a large aircraft. Sign for Peruvian International Airways atop an airport building. A Swissair passenger plane being serviced. Passengers boarding a TWA Lockheed Constellation airplane. A family watching airplanes from an airport observation deck. The Lockheed Constellation starting its engines. A Douglas DC-4 aircraft taxis out and takes off, as several boys watch from the observation deck. Closeup of another group of boys watching planes from the observation deck. Aerial view of Manhattan skyscraper buildings from an overflying airplane. Traffic on streets at Times Square. The Astor Hotel at the left and the Times building straight ahead. Several other street scenes in Manhattan, crowded with pedestrians. A view residential apartment houses along Park Avenue. Views of African Americans crowding the sidewalks in Harlem. Views of "Little Italy" in the lower East side of Manhattan, where Italian restaurants and other businesses are seen. Chinatown is seen with some of the business signs in Chinese. A man of Chinese heritage reading a letter. Asian American children playing together in a neighborhood. New high rise apartment buildings are seen replacing older homes in parts of Manhattan. Mothers wheeling their children on sidewalks in one of the new neighborhoods.
Casualties of World War II receive medical aid in New York, United States. Emotionally and mentally disturbed soldiers in the Mason General Hospital. A commanding officer addresses the patients in the hospital. The patients (suffering what has been more recently termed post traumatic stress disorder or PTSD) include men who tremble, men who cannot sleep, men who cannot remember and men who have a paralysis of mental origin. Patients are being admitted in the hospital. A psychiatrist listen to the patient's story. The patients share one common anxiety : death and fear of death.
Mental and psychiatric casualties (post traumatic stress disorder or PTSD) of World War II receive medical aid in New York, United States. A psychiatrist listens to the story of a military soldier victim in the Mason General Hospital. Another psychiatrist listens to the story of another patient. The patient tells him how he lost his comrade.
Casualties of World War II receive mental aid in New York, United States. A psychiatrist listens to the story of a military patient in the Mason General Hospital suffering from mental and emotional trauma. The patient, an African American U.S. Army soldier from the Headquarters detachment of the 50th Quartermaster battalion, Mobile, Alabama, cries as he tells the doctor how he suffered headaches, grief and homesickness (or "nostalgia" as he put it) on receiving a photograph of his girlfriend shortly before the war and missing her greatly.
Casualties of World War II receive medical aid in New York, United States. A psychiatrist listens to the story of a patient in the Mason General Hospital. The patient, suffering emotional and mental distress, tells the doctor how his brother was killed serving in the military in Guadalcanal during the war, and how he suffered depression symptoms.
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