Holiday festivities in Spain (possibly Cabalgata de Reyes Magos). People shops for the festival season in a market. Children look at new clothes and toys on display. Children's bicycles for sale. Man with a camel. Neon signs in the market. Parade of persons on horseback carrying lights, at night. The festivities feature a parade of floats.
A race among café waiters on the Paseo de la Castellana Avenue, Madrid, Spain. Many Spanish waiters stand in lines. Each waiter holds a tray with a bottle and glass. An official inspects the trays. The race begins. Waiters rush forward with their trays. A crowd moves along with the competitors on the streets. Policemen among the crowd. The winners cross the finish line. Officials inspect the glasses at the end of the race. The winner poses amongst the crowd. (WWII period)
The appointment of Prince Charles, Count of Flanders as the Regent of Belgium after the liberation of Belgium from German occupation. View of the House of Representatives in Brussels (Place de la Nation 1, 1008 Bruxelles, Belgium). Representatives take their seats inside. Prince Charles, Count of Flanders takes an oath as he is named the Regent of Belgium during the imprisonment of his brother, King Leopold III, in Germany. Prince Charles emerges from the building and is congratulated by officials.
Plywood used to make war material for the Invasion of Normandy. Birch, maple and mahogany logs are boiled for 24 hours. The logs are rounded on rollers and then peeled into long sheets of veneer. Women war production workers take out thin sheets of wood made from the logs. The sheets are then put into drying ovens to reduce the moisture. Women make an alternating wood and glue pile. These are stacked and put into a machine press to make the finished plywood. Workers put together and weld the prepared plywood. The plywood is used to make landing crafts, boats, pontoons, army holding boards, gliders and fighter planes. Men construct boats and crafts. A glider takes off. Worker under the plane. British de Havilland Mosquito bombers parked in a row. The plywood was a major component of the Mosquitoes .
Destruction of the Reichstag dome in Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany, which had been partially destroyed in World War 2. View of the Soviet War Memorial (Straße des 17. Juni 10623 Berlin) in the British zone of Berlin. The old Reichstag Building in the background. Incendiaries, tied to metal girders of the 50-ton dome, ignite and burn away the structure. Flames arise as the structure burns and collapses. A cameraman films people and cars moving across the street in front of the Brandenburg Gate (Brandenburger Tor).
Sunday in the South Bronx. A "2" or "5" train exits the subway at the Hub towards the Westchester avenue El (elevated train) at Brook Avenue. A sign for Family Finance Loans. POV from elevated train in the Bronx. Puerto Rican immigrants gathered at churches for Sunday service. People head to the St. Mary's Park for a weekly game of baseball. At TC: 2:47 McMahon's Bar and Grill at Jackson Ave and St. Mary's St. is seen. Families in the park. Children eat from stalls. Men sing a hymn and play tambourines. Children bathe in the water spray from a fire hydrant. Churches and other holy places in the area. Poster displays the "all seeing eye" of a local mystic. Church signs include, "Iglesia Pentecostal Estrella de Oriente" and "Bethany Christian Mission," with a warning to "prepare to meet your god." Man paints a sign for another church. Musicians play on the street. The bleachers are full with fathers and mothers with their children in strollers. Players prepare for the game. The baseball game underway. Audience claps and cheers. A plane flies overhead.