U.S. troops arriving back in America from Europe following World War 1. American soldiers crowd the railings of the R.M.S Mauretania, which is coated in camouflage paint. A number of tug boats assist the Mauretania in docking. Crowd of people and vehicles seen waiting at Pier 54 Cunard Line docks with "Cunard Line" sign seen. Horse-drawn carriage loaded with boxes. American soldiers ride on Army trucks leaving the Cunard Line docks. (World War One; WWI; WW1)
Evening - couples of the community of the community at a church hall for dinner and dancing, in evening dress. Diners seated at long tables. Band plays, couples dance. Scenes of band players including saxophones. Hands of piano player playing piano. Hands of drummer playing drums. Seemingly wealthy couples with women in long gowns and men in suits dancing. Priest in the middle of dancers. Newcomers to the community introduced to priest in lounge. Following Sunday church services, people gather in reception hall. People leave church.
Film opens with view of Movie marquee showing film:"Echenme al vampiro * Evangelina Elizondo* en Rapto al Sol." Latin American music is heard in background. Various business signs are seen, for Gilroy & McLoughlin Bar & Grill,cabaret; Hair straightened; Various other shop windows showing womens clothing; Bric- a -brac including large photo of President John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline; Religious items; Restaurant serving "CuchiFritos, y, Pasteles;"clothing on sale; Musicians and entertainers advertised; and numerous other similar storefront views. Views of busy sidewalk merchants selling variety of goods. What appears to be a section of the Cross Bronx Expressway, under construction above the street, in the background. Grocer operating outdoor fruit and vegetable outlet on the sidewalk. Many customers gathered around him. Pedestrians on crowded sidewalk. A little girl dressed in white (perhaps for a first communion). A man dispensing shaved ice or "sno-cone" drinks from a sidewalk cart. Furniture for sale displayed on sidewalk in front of a store. A man and woman looking it over. A couple with a small baby. Scene shifts fo a quiet street and sidewalk where a couple walks and a boy rides a bicycle. The street and sidewalk look wet. View of roof tops and back yards with clothes on lines to dry. Camera pans over roof tops. More clothes lines and families seen seated on fire escapes. A boy picking up items near a large heap of trash in a vacant lot. Children playing various games on an empty street. Two old women walking slowly on the walkway. Women with small children conversing on a building stoop. Young men gathering together and "rough housing." They are copied by small boys who fight with one another. Young man and woman with a baby stroll on the sidewalk.
A film titled 'Panorama Water Front and Brooklyn Bridge from East River'. East River shoreline and piers of lower Manhattan seen. Several ocean-going sailing vessels are docked. Piers and docks are crowded with ships and boats of all kinds. Steam tugs, ships and ferries seen docked. Loaded wooden barrels can be seen. View of the water front. Sign on Pier 20 reads 'Mallory Line'. Brooklyn Bridge seen. River traffic of tugboats and barges passing under the Brooklyn Bridge. Brooklyn Heights visible.
A film titled 'A Perilous Proceeding'. A group of men climb on the cable and bucket of a large crane at the top of a building under construction. The men are lifted over the site and gradually lowered to the ground..
Huge crowd gathers as the funeral procession of Michael Vengalli passes through the streets. The five year old boy was killed by gangsters in the Coll-Schultz gang war (of the mafia or mob) when gangsters in a car from the Coll gang fired on the Schultz gang on E. 107th St in Manhattan, but missed them and hit baby Vengalli and 4 other children. The bereaved family seen weeping. People look from the windows of their homes as the cortege passes.
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