View of pedestrians and motorists in Chinatown, lower Manhattan, in New York City. Chinese banners seen. POV Point of view shot from pedestrian walking on New York City street, passing people and shops. Fixed view shots of cars, traffic and people near shops.
View of high rise buildings and skyscrapers, subway and highway in New York City from moving vehicle (brief POV shot). Motorists in a tunnel or bridge entrance merge area in New York City. Heavy traffic congestion at the merge, possibly at a tunnel entrance. Many 1960's and 1970's vehicles including cars and trucks jockeying for progress in the slow traffic jam.
View from a boat under way in New York Harbor, New York City. Twin towers of World Trade Center (still under final construction), and Lower Manhattan seen. Boat approaches Ellis Island. Ellis Island facilities and buildings seen. Old partially-sunken boat ruins and pier. Statue of Liberty in view.
View of Statue of Liberty from boat in water near Bedloe's Island, in New York harbor.New York City, United States.
A film titled 'Panorama from Times Building, New York', United States . View from the newly constructed Times Building, at Broadway (Times Square) of the street below with pedestrians and vehicles. View over top of the buildings seen in Midtown Manhattan. Clothes seen hanging on some rooftops. Serpentine path in public park. The Hippodrome. Numerous apartment houses. Hotels. The New York Theater. Times Square.
Traffic and other conditions in New York during World War II. Vehicular traffic on a street. Buildings along the sides of the street. Aerial view of the vehicular traffic. A poster outside a gas station reads: 'Sorry No Gas. Don't blame us. Blame Hitler'. Wide view of 5th Avenue in New York City with Flatiron Building (Fuller building) in distance. Cars are seen being prepared for long term storage, covered, and stored in garages because of gas shortage and few people using cars. A traffic policeman stands near a guard post near a tunnel entrance. A sign board reads: 'Lane Closed'. Very little traffic is seen anywhere. Neon lights on the Manhattan skyline skyscraper buildings including Times Square at night. Lights with World War 2 wartime blackout conditions. Aerial view of the buildings during a blackout with very few dim lights. Woman in grocery store market loading many soup cans into her basket before in a pre-war scene. Woman at cash register ringing up the purchase. Contrasting scene with a sign on a stack of food cans that says "Only one to a customer" during wartime food rationing. Consumers use ration books for food. Close-up view of ration book. Narrator explains ration book system, including Ration Book One and Ration Book Two. Women home makers in kitchens opening pantry and taking inventory of what items they have. Long line of people outside a building to get a ration book. People inside, mostly women and some young children, submitting paper work and receiving ration books. A young boy and then a woman are seen buying food items from a grocer shop using ration books or coupons. People buy vegetables at a market. Delivery boy at a residence door dropping off groceries and receiving ration stamps. A cartoon caricature of Axis leaders Mussolini, Hitler, and Hirohito with labels "Fatso, Ratso, and Japso" for the three leaders, respectively. Wooden cases loaded onto a ship in a harbor.
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