View of the General Assembly Hall in New York, USA. U Thant from Burma is unanimously re-appointed as the Secretary General of the United Nations. Assembly members give a standing ovation.
(Note: silent until TC: 2:06) Scenes of bright lights and decorations in Manhattan, New York City, during the Christmas season in 1966. Closeup of lights on the Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center. Lights and decorations on a fountain and building fronts. Christmas decorations in department store and shop windows. Elaborate toys and decorations including a carousel with decorative white horses carrying wrapped gift packages. Artificial animals, including an elephant that moves its trunk. Dancing stringed puppets in an Alpine setting. Miniature choir boys perched in front of organ pipes. An American boys' choir singing "Silent Night" inside a church. Panning closeups of the boys singing with open hymn books. At TC: 2:06, sound track starts being heard, as a pageant is being shown, possibly in Germany, with a choir of German boys and girls singing "Silent Night" in German. While they sing in the background, a group of children step from a building, carrying torches. They proceed down a snow covered hill. Children stand in snow by a bonfire and look at a fir tree covered in snow. Children carrying candles wave at an elderly woman looking out from a window. Pan to closeup of Virgin Mary and child decorating a Christmas tree.
View of the John F Kennedy International Airport in New York, United States. Boeing passenger aircraft taxis on runway. Another Boeing comes in for landing in the background. Boeing aircraft takes off from the runway. Other Boeing aircraft taxis on the runway.
Slate indicates that the U.S. has 5 times as many motor vehicles as other countries. Traffic on Fifth Avenue in New York City is seen. Aerial view from a high rise building looking down on 5th Avenue. Cars and trucks go by. Pedestrians mix in with the cars and cross erratically all over the avenue People milling about in the avenue. A traffic signal tower in the middle of the avenue.
A Grand Union supermarket in Yonkers, New York, in the United States. A sign that reads 'Take Enough Home Today' rotates on a stand in the suburban grocery store. A large Miller beer novelty can suspended from the ceiling and appearing to pour beer into a giant glass below. Jars on shelves. An array of grocery articles on the shelves, including both refrigerated shelves and dry shelves. Some of the shelves show the Grand Union gravity-fed system that they called the Food-O-Mat.
A Grand Union supermarket or grocery store in Yonkers, New York, United States, in the 1950s (located in Cross County Shopping Center). Shoppers entering the suburban store with carts. People shop in the supermarket. The shoppers push trolleys or shopping carts in the aisles. People select groceries from a vast array of things on the shelves including bacon, cheese, wine, ham. A woman chooses apples from a heap and puts them in a paper bag. Another shopper handles a cantaloupe in the produce area.
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