Nine brides stand in wedding gowns during a mass wedding at Prospect Park in Brooklyn, New York City. Children sing during the wedding ceremony. Wedding ceremonies go on. New York City Criminal Court Judge Amos S. Basel officiates the mass wedding. Two couples are African Americans. Couples stand. Large crowd gathers. A cake in between the couples.
The Hotel Waldorf Astoria Hotel (301 Park Ave, New York, NY 10022, United States) in New York City. Pedestrians walking on the path along the entrance of the Waldorf Astoria on Park Avenue. Two United States flags hang in front of the hotel. Two men in white point at a sign in front of the Waldorf Astoria. “THE WALDORF ASTORIA” is inscribed at the front. Cabs seen dropping and picking up people from the hotel.
Views of the streets of Manhattan, New York. High rise buildings that make up the skyline. The New York Stock Exchange at 18 Broad Street between Wall Street and Exchange Place. The Trinity church building at 79 Broadway. The busy Wall Street. Statue of George Washington in front of the Federal Hall National Memorial Building at 26 Wall Street. People and taxi cabs passing by.
Meeting of the Fusion Party, at the Manhattan Opera Center, during campaign to elect a Mayor of New York City. Their candidate for Mayor, Fiorello LaGuardia, is introduced to the crowd. The crowd welcomes him. 1934. The sequence is repeated several times and there is only a momentary bit of sound (when LaGuardia is introduced as the next Mayor of New York).
Newreel titled 'Plane Hits Wall Street Skyscraper'. Remains of the plane lying on the ground after it collided with a skyscraper on Wall Street, New York. The building struck by the plane and the damaged part of the building. Destroyed wall of a living room. People carry the dead in a casket out of the building. Smoke pouring from the building, viewed from ground level. Crowd of people near the remains of the plane. Views of New York Harbor from a hole in the building, with rubble from crash in foreground.
Film opens showing aerial view of a United States B-29 Superfortress bomber aircraft in flight, then scenes of numerous U.S. Army Air Forces warplanes and bombing (partially obscured by on screen newsreel text). Next, crowds are seen jamming Times Square in Manhattan, New York City, celebrating victory over Japan in World War 2. (Known as V-J Day or Victory over Japan day, marking the end of World War 2, on 14 August, 1945.) A facsimile of the Statue of Liberty has been set up in the square. Moving lights on Times Building motograph news zipper or ticker announce Japanese surrender. Jubilant celebrations and smiling Americans wave American flags. Closeup of the Statue of Liberty facsimile. A woman dances the Lindy Hop with a U.S. Navy sailor, as others (including many servicemen in uniform) watch.
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