Crowd outside Madison Square Garden in New York City. Police on horseback controlling crowd of 50,000 Communist Party rally attendees protesting unemployment during the Great Depression. Earl Browder on speakers platform. View of large crowd marching ahead and policemen trying to break demonstrations. One sign in crowd shows caricature of Hitler (in early days of World War 2).
Snowstorm in City of New York on December 26, 1947. Vehicles and streets covered with 26 inches of snow. Two girls making a snowman. A man pushing a car covered with snow. View of many cars buried in snow. Men labor to clear streets. Tractors removing snow from streets. Snow-clad train on railway station. Man trying to pull the car out of snow using shovel. Men on hill removing snow with shovels.
Interior of the Curtiss airplane factory at Buffalo, New York. World War II P-40 fighter planes are seen in various stages of production on the factory floor. Workers roll out the 2000th P-40 type airplane from the factory. William S. Knudsen, Director General of the Office of Production Management, and other officials walk with Curtiss Company executives. Undersecretary of War, Robert P. Patterson, is also a member of the visiting party. (But he appears only momentarily, in the extreme right edge of the image at time code 00:26, where he is seen wearing a light colored suit, and carrying a large hat.) Director General Knudsen and other officials climb onto the wings of the 2000th P-40 and examine its cockpit. The sequence closes with an overflight of six P-40 airplanes in formation at low altitude, over the factory.
Shows simulated air raid drill in New York City area early in the World War 2 period. Shows aircraft spotting room and mapping control room with sighted aircraft positions, telephone switchboard activity, and P-40 aircraft taking off to intercept. U.S. Army soldiers with anti-aircraft guns in airfields and positioned beside bridges including the Williamsburg Bridge over the East River between Brooklyn and Manhattan. Views of simulated raid at Fort Tilden by amphibious troops from the "invading" soldiers of the "Black army."
View across Broadway Avenue in New York City. Merchant Maritime building and traffic passing on the avenue can be seen.
Huge crowd assembled to see troops of the 27th Division march through 5th Avenue in New York. Troops march and crowd lined up alongside road. Horse-drawn carriage on the street.
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