People gather for the Theater Owners Convention in New York. Actor Cary Grant is awarded the 'Star of the Year' award in the function. People discuss amongst themselves. Photographers click pictures of the celebrities. Actress Angie Dickinson is awarded the 'Most Exciting New Star' title. Both of them pose with their trophies in front of the cameramen.
Works Progress Administration (WPA) projects in New York during the Great Depression. An Eastern Airlines DC-3 passenger airplane with painted words on side "The Great Silver Fleet" taxis on a runway at Floyd Bennett Airport field by Jamaica Bay in Brooklyn, New York City. Narrator describes WPA improvements to the airport. Plane parks atop a novel turntable and then is rotated to desired position. Rear hatch opens and crew member steps out. Trap door on ground near plane opens revealing a stairwell downward which debarking passengers then use to walk toward the main terminal. View of skyport landing and takeoff area on the East River and a pontoon-equipped small aircraft coming in for landing at one of these two skyports providing air taxi service from Manhattan Island. Narrator indicates that one skyport is located at 31st Street and another at Wall Street.
The State Housing Rent Commission in New York, United States. Exteriors of a building. A sign reads: 'State of New York Temporary State Housing Rent Commission'. A woman seated at a desk and working. She looks at a booklet. She gives the booklets to men and women. A man reading the booklet. Two officials seated at a desk. They look at the booklets placed on the table.
African American women take dance lessons at the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA). in New York. A woman writes a letter to her mother. The woman writes about the dance classes offered at the YWCA in Harlem, New York. Women practicing classical dance in a class. An African American girl in a long black dress beats a small drum. A young woman teaches little girls how to dance. Little girls dancing in class.
Young African American women learn handicrafts the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) in New York. A woman writes a letter to her mother. The woman writes about the craft classes offered at the YWCA in Harlem, New York. Two African American girls seated at a table. Girls making brooches made of yarn. African American girls make flower brooches made of yarn. A girl wears a flower brooch made of yarn.
African American men and women socialize together at the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) in New York, United States. A woman writes a letter to her mother. She writes about the recreation activities offered at the YWCA in Harlem, New York. An African American girl reads a magazine while seated in a chair inside a room. A black couple enters the room. A young black man enters and meets the woman seated in the chair. The woman gets up from the chair and talks to him. African American man greets his girlfriend. The black man and his girlfriend flirt on each other as they sit on chairs inside a room. The woman ends her letter.
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