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People in New York City learn of Allied invasion of France from newspapers and New York Times building display

At start, film shows crowd (mainly men) gathered on sidewalks in New York City during World War II. Focus shifts to myriad newspapers on a stand, all showing headlines about Allied D-Day invasion of Normandy in Nazi German-occupied France. Men purchase the papers. Glimpse of men moving shoulder to shoulder. The New York Times building at Times Square is seen with latest news being displayed in lights. News messages seen include: "President Roosevelt in Radio talk..." "Rome declares victory at time when Allies invade Europe." "American British and Canadian troops swarm ashore on Northern coast..." American paratroops land behind the Atlantic Wall to deal first invasion blow to Nazi communications." "...The Allies will accept nothing but full victory." View of passengers in a bus reading the Times news as their bus passes the building.

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1944, June 6
Duration: 2 min 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675051457
At Carnegie Hall in New York City, Robert Moses gives news about the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr

News about the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. is announced to the audience at Carnegie Hall (881 Seventh Avenue (at 57th Street) New York City United States) in New York. Scene from the stage during a gala event with Duke Ellington performing excerpts from his second "Sacred Concert" together with the Tougaloo College Concert Choir. Concert sponsor Robert Moses gives the news of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. -- African American clergyman, activist and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement -- in Tennessee. Gasps of shock and awe are heard from the people gathered in the hall hearing the news.

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1968, April 4
Duration: 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070909
New Year's celebrations in New York City on last day of 1940, and welcoming year 1941.

Thousands of New York residents gather on streets to celebrate New Year's eve of 1941. Scenes of neon lights and traffic of Times Square. Many lit signs including a Automat sign. Close up view of lit marquee for George White's Gay White Way. Women Dancers present a wonderful show. Views of Chorus Girls in costume during the show. Many men and women gathered at night club to eat,drink and dance. Quaint and colorful faces can be seen. An overhead view of city streets flooded with merrymakers. More neon lights and signs including one for Vaudeville. Marquee scrolls on New York Times Building with message wishing everyone a happy new year.

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1941, January 1
Duration: 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675028759
Benny Goodman leads his Orchestra during a performance at the Hotel New Yorker in New York City.

Benny Goodman Orchestra performs in New York City. Exterior of the Hotel New Yorker (481 8th Avenue, New York, NY 10001) at night. Hotel New Yorker marquee and a sign for the 'Benny Goodman Orchestra'. Terrace Room inside the Hotel. Benny Goodman and his Orchestra perform on stage. Benny Goodman leads the Orchestra and plays the clarinet. People seated in the room listen to the music. Soldiers, sailors, and civilians dance with their wives. Others seated at tables. (World War II period).

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1943, October
Duration: 1 min 24 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675031226
A New York City Police airplane in flight over Liberty Island. New York Harbor, Manhattan Island, as seen from another aircraft

Aerial view of the Statue of Liberty on Liberty Island in Upper New York Bay. Aerial view of ships in New York Harbor. An airplane in flight. Airplane is flying over the New York Bay and the skyscrapers and tall buildings of the Manhattan skyline. Aerial view of New York harbor. 'Police' can be seen written on the aircraft.

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1939, October
Duration: 3 min 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675032800
Contrast of living conditions in New York City; children playing, cars parked and people sit outside their houses in New York City.

Elevated views and busy street views of automobile and pedestrian traffic on streets of New York City in the late 1930s. A streetcar stopped in the street. A roadside news stand. Men in suits and women in dresses walking on sidewalks near office buildings and stores in New York City. Children of late primary school or middle school age walking to school. Children exiting a school bus to go to school Two boys wrestle as a group of boys gathers around and encourages them. Girls play a game like "London Bridge is falling down." Scene changes to a farm field with a farmer plowing a field with his tractor. A farmer cuts crops with a sickle. Brief view of the main street in a small town somewhere in the United States, likely east. Scene changes again to a neighborhood with nice homes and two girls play skipping rope at a house. A woman prepares toast in a electric toaster. Vegetables and food items seen on shelves of an open refrigerator in a home. Scene changes to dense urban tenements and scenes of relative poverty in New York City. Elevated view looking out over dense tenements and apartment homes. Two young women sit on sleeping cots on a rooftop 1930s cars parked on a narrow street among crowded city dwellings, and and people sit outside their houses. Kids playing "stoop ball" throwing a ball against steps of their dwelling on the lower east side of Manhattan. A movie promotion poster advertises "Yellow Jack" playing at the Loews Commodore Theatre . Children play.

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1939
Duration: 4 min 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035672
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