The 42nd National Automobile Show at the New York Coliseum (present day site of Time Warner Center. 10 Columbus Cir, New York, NY 10019, United States), December 8-16, 1956. A sign above an escalator at the entrance reads 'National Automobile Show'. A model wearing a swimsuit seated on the hood of a 1957 Desoto convertible. Two women seated in a 1957 Chrysler 300C. Aerial view of the Buick exhibit, with the 1957 Buick Roadmaster Convertible prominently displayed. An executive version of the 1957 Cadillac features a typewriter in the back seat and a record player in the front dash. Auto executives gathered at a display featuring a row of steering wheels. President of Chrysler Lester Lum Colbert hails the future in a statement.
Wounded soldiers from European Theater of Operation arrive by Air Evac C-54 aircraft to LaGuardia Airport, New York, where they are greeted by families and friends during World War II. Film opens with view through main cargo door into cabin of a military C-54 transport parked on the ramp at LaGuardia Airport, New York. The cabin is configured for air evacuation. Inside, wounded American soldiers are seen in a rack of litters stacked four high. A man in civilian clothes holds a clip board and speaks to soldiers on the airport ramp. A man drives a fork lift to the cargo door and lowers two of the wounded on litters to the ground, where waiting family members reach down to kiss and embrace them. Photographers take pictures and Army officers welcome the wounded. Media technicians set up microphones near on soldier who is with a woman. They record as the woman and soldier embrace and speak to each other. After momentary break, scene shifts back to cargo door of the C-54, where several Army soldiers watch the activities below where women greeting two more wounded are being photographed and recorded as they are reunited. The next scene is in a hangar, where a wounded soldier is sitting up in his litter with wife or sweetheart beside him and a man and woman behind him. Two microphones are set up next to them. The young couple kiss and embrace. Closeup of them.
Wintertime View, after snowfall, with snow banks along Fifth Avenue in New York City. Taxis and buses moving on the avenue. Door mat reads:"587 Thos. Cook & Son." Pedestrians in winter coats and hats. People enter and come out of door marked 'American Express Company'. Men standing under sign 'Thos. Cook and Son Wagons-Lits Inc.'. People entering travel office of 'Thos. Cook and Son'. Empire State Building visible in mist in background.
'Excavating for a New York Foundation '. A crew of laborers can be seen shoveling dirt into a four-wheeled wooden wagon. A full wagon is slowly lifted out of the pit to street level by a steam driven early design crane. Advertisements and campaign posters can be seen on the wall of the building in the background, including a large billboard for Cremo cigars. Location is West 29th Street between Fifth Avenue and Broadway, looking east, in lower Midtown, Manhattan. Policeman talks with laborers at top of excavation, who are awaiting the filled wagon. They guide the wagon to an elevated landing on the perimeter above the excavation site.
An ace glider ace breaks a record for flight in Manhattan area in New York. Wolf Hirth, German expert and partner of American soaring champion Hawley Bowlius in a glider. Vehicles move on a road in the foreground. The glider takes off. The pilot soars above Riverside and the unfinished Hudson Bridge for 50 minutes. People see the glider during the flight. The glider lands after getting orders by the police so that traffic could be released. People move towards the glider after the landing. The pilot comes out from the glider. Several officials talk to Wolf Hirth.
Expansion of the Will Rogers Hospital at Saranac Lake, New York. Exterior of the Will Rogers Hospital. The board of directors gather for an annual meeting. The board of directors led by Chairman Richard Francis Walsh climb down the stairs and inspect new research facilities under patient rehabilitation program. The new research laboratories for conducting studies on all cardiac diseases . Mrs. R J Donnell unveils and inaugurates the new research laboratories named in honor of her husband Robert O'Donnell,a movie pioneer. The board of directors stand near by.
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