USS Tennessee (BB-43) at dock in Brooklyn Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York. A naval officer with a dog on the deck. Sailors with their belongings and supplies at the docks wait to embark. Sailors embark the USS Tennessee. USS Tennessee and a submarine chaser sail under the Brooklyn Bridge en route for maneuvers in the Atlantic.
Nine brides stand in wedding gowns during a mass wedding at Prospect Park in Brooklyn, New York City. Children sing during the wedding ceremony. Wedding ceremonies go on. New York City Criminal Court Judge Amos S. Basel officiates the mass wedding. Two couples are African Americans. Couples stand. Large crowd gathers. A cake in between the couples.
Works Progress Administration (WPA) projects in New York during the Great Depression. An Eastern Airlines DC-3 passenger airplane with painted words on side "The Great Silver Fleet" taxis on a runway at Floyd Bennett Airport field by Jamaica Bay in Brooklyn, New York City. Narrator describes WPA improvements to the airport. Plane parks atop a novel turntable and then is rotated to desired position. Rear hatch opens and crew member steps out. Trap door on ground near plane opens revealing a stairwell downward which debarking passengers then use to walk toward the main terminal. View of skyport landing and takeoff area on the East River and a pontoon-equipped small aircraft coming in for landing at one of these two skyports providing air taxi service from Manhattan Island. Narrator indicates that one skyport is located at 31st Street and another at Wall Street.
A train ride from Brooklyn to New York via the Brooklyn Bridge. View of the train ride as seen from the moving railroad train. The train crosses the Brooklyn Bridge.
An electric power generating plant in the United States. Various views of 1940s New York City: The city at dawn, with Manhattan skyscraper buildings and the sun rising in the background. River traffic moving under the Brooklyn Bridge and buildings in the background. Manhattan streets with no traffic because it is dawn. Lion in front of the New York Public Library on 5th avenue, in silhouette. East River with Manhattan skyline behind. Shows people in houses busy with their morning routine. A milkman delivering by horse and wagon, to homes. Morning newspaper on door step. Man using electric shaver. Children leaving for school. A commuter train arrives at a railroad station. Trams, trolleys, buses, traffic and pedestrians along a street of New York City. Elevated view of Times Square filled with morning traffic of cars, trucks, buses and pedestrians. Turbine deck of an electric power plant. Men in a control room. A ship in a river. A man operates a bascule bridge (draw bridge), allowing ship to pass without delay. Operators, at controls of electric power plant, increase output to meet extra demands. Numerous dials, needles and gauges. View of turbine generator in power plant.
(See also clip 65675078146 from different film transfer). Famous African American men and women citizens in the United States. Clip opens with of Booker T. Washington at Tuskegee University. Scene in a laboratory with African American scientist and inventor George Washington Carver, as an elderly man, working with another scientist in the laboratory. African American judge of New York city court. African American explorer Matthew Henson is seen looking at a globe (he was with Admiral Peary planting the American flag at the North Pole in 1909), and an unnamed African American surgeon at work in an operating room in New York. Next scene shows famous "father of the blues" musician and composer W.C. Handy (William Christoper Handy) smiling. Next is seen the financier and publisher of the Amsterdam News, Dr. C.B. Powell (Clilan Powell) greeting three uniformed African American women during a World War 2 war bond drive, and handing them a check (close up is shown) for 25,000 dollars, dated January 4, 1942, for the war bond drive. It is from the account of the Victory Mutual Life Insurance Company which Dr. Powell also owned. The check is signed by C.B Powell and Philip M.H. Savory (Dr. Savory was co-owner of the New York Amsterdam News). The next scene shows Elise Johnson McDougald, better known as Gertrude Elise Ayer, who was the first black full-time public school principal after the consolidation of New York City schools in 1898. She was also a noted woman writer during the Harlem Renaissance. She is seated in her office at her desk, likely in P.S. 119 in Harlem, since this is approximately year 1945 and she was at P.S 119 at that time. Her name plaque is visible on the front center of the desk. Principal Ayer smiles as a woman delivers a document to her. Next is seen the African American historian, author, and professor, Lawrence D. Reddick, serving in his role as the curator of the Schomburg Collection of African American Literature. In an art studio is seen the famous African American sculptor and painter Charles Alston, at work on a sculpture. Next scene shows the famous African American contralto singer, Marian Anderson, receiving a bouquet of flowers and smiling after a performance. This transitions to a view of African American orchestra conductor Dean Dixon leading an orchestra in a performance of Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Several views of different sections of the orchestra performing under Dixon's direction. Clip closes with brief shots of campuses of several historically black colleges and universities in the United States like Howard University, Hampton, Tuskegee, Fisk, Prairie View. An American college football game underway at the stadium of one of the colleges.
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