Scenes from Central Park in New York City, United States. Families with children are seen throughout the park. Families relax under shade in the park. A family seated in a garden. A pram (stroller, carriage) in the foreground. A child seated on his father's lap on a park bench. Children laugh and enjoy. A happy and smiling boy. Families take children to watch the animals in the Central Park Zoo. Chimpanzee climbs on a bar. A Panda bear eating a bamboo shoot. A sleepy looking hippopotamus with his head lying down. Elsewhere in New York City as evening approaches: Vehicles on the street and passing under the Washington Square Arch. Skyscrapers in view. Evening in New York City. The Brooklyn Bridge is seen from ground level. Lights on the buildings and skyscrapers of New York at night.
A war map at Times Square in New York City, United States. A huge crowd gathers and looks at the war map. Two women cross the road. Inserts of newspaper 'The New York Times'. A news reads "Churchill reported ready to announce his war cabinet". The crowd looks at the bulletin board. The people read war news.
Marquee of newly opened New York Theatre (1482 Broadway, New York, NY 10036, USA) during World War II. Marquee says "Holland Belgium Invaded by Nazis. What will Italy do?" Also seen is the marquee of the Embassy Newsreel Theatre at Times Square in New York City, United States, which reads, "Holland-Belgium Invaded. 'Information Please'." A crowd gathered on the street. People read news on Nazi German invasion of several European countries and buy newspapers. Car traffic on the street and buildings in the background. View of the neon lights of other nearby buildings flashing at night.
Pope Paul VI becomes the first Roman Catholic Pontiff to visit the United States. Aerial view of buildings and skyscrapers of New York City skyline. Brief external view of Saint Patrick's Cathedral (5th Ave, New York, NY 10022, United States). Pope Paul VI leads a prayer during a mass at Saint Patrick's Cathedral. Aerial view of United Nations Building (405 East 42nd Street, New York, NY, 10017, USA). Pope Paul VI addresses the United Nations General Assembly in New York, calling the UN a man's last hope for peace.
A film titled 'While The City Sleeps' about the importance of trucking industry for the way of life of a large city like New York City. Automobile traffic on roads at night and neon lights lit up in Times Square, New York City. Neon lights scenes continue, superimposed with other images: People in various clubs and restaurants. People dance. A man plays a trumpet. Hands of a couple overlapped, holding hands. Superimposed images end. View of a bell hop who blows a whistle. A couple enters a taxi cab to go home. A waiter removes a table cloth and a salt shaker from a table. Bell hop takes off his uniform after the day's work. A musician puts a trumpet in a case. Lights are turned off at night. A security guard walks in front of quiet buildings. Trucking activities are shown continuing during the night. Sign for the Port Authority of New York Holland Tunnel entrance. Cars and trucks entering the Holland tunnel. Delivery of fruit, milk, gasoline, newspapers, coal, bread and many other things. Night view of traffic crossing the Queensboro Bridge also called the 59th Street Bridge. Building material is delivered. An Esso gasoline truck delivers fuel to a petrol or service station. Close up view of moving tires on a truck. Stacks of newspapers slide down a chute to a waiting truck. A Canal Coal Company truck delivers coal to a building. The coal trip bed is shown tipping and elevating to dump the coal. Bakery employees load bread into trucks of the Cushman's bakery. A truck dumps sand. Another truck picks up a plant from a nursery. A car carrier truck is shown carrying four new automobiles on a two level flatbed system. View of skyscrapers of Manhattan in early morning after dawn. A hand reaching for an alarm clock to shut it off in the morning. Two feet seen turning off of a bed and into a pair of waiting slippers. Man gets out of his bed.
A promotional documentary titled ' Change is Gonna come' about fight against poverty in East Harlem, New York City. The skyline of New York City. A damaged building with broken glasses of the windows. Three boys playing near a building. One boy jumps down from an awning roof to the ground. View of buildings from moving car and gradually the view shows more damaged and older buildings. African American children play around debris of a damaged building. The boys throw rocks at a partially demolished building wall. A young African American girl walks over the rubble with some difficulty. View of the boys throwing more rocks, and then hitting the wall of the mostly demolished bulding and knocking more bricks from it. Two boys play "sword fighting" with sticks. A sign reads ' under construction'. African American youth (older boys and girls) work at a construction site as they cut wooden planks to help build a playground for youth. A young African American boy plays and sits on a toy fire truck. African American and Hispanic children (possibly Puerto Rican) play in and around an abandoned, wrecked car in a street. The group of children stand and jump on the roof of the car and hit the car with their sticks. View of a totally smashed and abandoned car on the side of a street. The toy truck lying on a street and missing a front wheel. Next scene shows and auditorium holding a community convention to fight poverty in New York. Sign says "New York City Council Against Poverty. Lower West Side." A woman at a podium addresses audiences at the convention. Men and women seated around a table as they work on documents.
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