Night life in the South Bronx. A boy flies a kite from the roof. Cars on the street, clothes line across buildings. African American people in the streets. Night clubs, bars and neon signs. Displays in shop windows. Garcia Lorca brings a mobile theater to a school yard. A large crowd turns up for the event. The performance underway. Children and adults in the audience applaud and cheer. Men play Domino. Neon signs, shops in the street. A woman and a man sing on a stage. Bridal stores in the area.
Sunday in the South Bronx. A "2" or "5" train exits the subway at the Hub towards the Westchester avenue El (elevated train) at Brook Avenue. A sign for Family Finance Loans. POV from elevated train in the Bronx. Puerto Rican immigrants gathered at churches for Sunday service. People head to the St. Mary's Park for a weekly game of baseball. At TC: 2:47 McMahon's Bar and Grill at Jackson Ave and St. Mary's St. is seen. Families in the park. Children eat from stalls. Men sing a hymn and play tambourines. Children bathe in the water spray from a fire hydrant. Churches and other holy places in the area. Poster displays the "all seeing eye" of a local mystic. Church signs include, "Iglesia Pentecostal Estrella de Oriente" and "Bethany Christian Mission," with a warning to "prepare to meet your god." Man paints a sign for another church. Musicians play on the street. The bleachers are full with fathers and mothers with their children in strollers. Players prepare for the game. The baseball game underway. Audience claps and cheers. A plane flies overhead.
X-Ray Department at the Lenox Hill Hospital in NY. An X-Ray Requisition for a Mrs. E Conrad. Signs read: 'Office - X-Ray Departmernt', 'Radiographic C', and 'Control'. Patient lies on X-Ray table. Nurse adjusts X-Ray machine and prepares the patient for an X-Ray. Nurse at X-Ray controls. Sign reads 'X-Ray Conference Room'. Dr. Otto Pickhardt and other assistant doctors discuss the patient's x-rays. X-rays clipped on the view box.
The Operation Theater at Lenox HIll Hospital in NY. Doctors, and assistants nurses prepare for the operation. They create a screen with sheets on the table. The instrument tray is brought near the operating table. The operation progresses. Assistants pass instruments to the doctors.
Film 'Story of Science' from International Library of Visual Aids. Acknowledgments and opening credits of the film as music plays in background.
Men gather at the bank of Niagara river. George L Stathakis enters a large, customized barrel along with his small pet turtle. The lid of the barrel is tightly closed. The barrel is then released in the river close to the Niagara Falls waterfall. Barrel moves in the water and enters the water fall. It drops down along the falls. After crossing the waterfall the barrel is taken out to the river bank. George Stathakis does not emerge. He has died, smothered in the barrel during the stunt. A man takes out the 150 year old turtle from the barrel and shows it to the crowd. It is unharmed.
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