A man checks baskets and take out pigeons from one. He hand them over to a lady who releases them. The gathered crowd cheers and release more pigeons. Thousands of pigeons are seen flying in the sky. People release pigeons from other boxes too. Decoys lure pigeons to rival coops. Buildings are seen in the background. A man examines a pigeon.
A crowd of rioters moves on a street in front of a furrier industry labor office. People from windows watch the rioters. Police catch a few rioters and lay them on ground. An injured man is assisted into a waiting ambulance. A man on stretcher is moved to the hospital ambulance vehicle. The vehicle moves on road.
Super-dreadnought Battleship USS Arkansas (BB-33) passing under the Brooklyn Bridge on her way to join the fleet. She is seen, surrounded and escorted by tugboats, from overhead on the Brooklyn bridge. The USS Arkansas approaches the bridge and passes underneath.
Cars drive on West Side Manhattan street. The street is lined with trees on one side as it winds up hill. Water beside. Buildings on other side of road.
Music Maestro, Arturo toscanini, is seen in the library at Wave Hill, the mansion in which he is living during World War 2. His grandson, Walfredo Toscanini, is relaxing on a sofa in the background. The Maestro, paces the floor, as he listens to a phonograph record. Toscanini family pictures are seen on a piano, where the maestro is seated playing from a musical score. He pauses to annotate the score.
A huge crowd gathered in Madison Square Garden. An unseen speaker (likely Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr) criticizes the efforts of Prime Minister Chamberlain, of Britain, to appease Hitler. Featured Speaker, Dr. Paul Tillich, of Union Theological Seminary, addresses the crowd. He talks about the forced emigration of German Jews because of their religious and political beliefs. Cameramen record the event. An orchestra is seated on stage behind the speaker as if ready to perform. Professor Tillich discusses the attack on Jewish people in Germany and equates it to attacks on Christians. The crowd applauds.
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