Montage opening shows various USA scenes. Aerial view of Manhattan before construction of the World Trade Center. Diagram showing future site of World Trade Center. Views of the Radio Row district that existed before World Trade Center construction. Model of future twin towers. Derelict abandoned buildings in World Trade Center construction zone. Sign on building reads, "Tubes Guaranteed." Zoom out of World Trade Center model. Sidewalk in front of Radio Row. Pan upward of World Trade Center model. Worker swings hammer to smash brick wall. Worker jack hammering building facade. Pedestrians on sidewalk in front of Leonard Radio at 65 Cortlandt St. Neon sign reads "daily auction." Bulldozer pushes building debris. Wide shot cleared World Trade Center construction site with highway in background. Steam shovel dumping load. Large pumps in line operate in unison. Men weld rebar. Large upright rebar mesh. Zoom in on machinery operator smoking a cigar. Ironwork being moved into position on north tower foundation of World Trade Center. Wrecking ball falls and hit ground. Zoom in on construction workers assembling decking. Concrete coming out of a concrete mixer. Aerial view of World Trade Center construction site. Steam shovel moving. Zoom in on crane. Aerial view of dump truck driving through World Trade Center construction site. Exterior upright ironwork. Zoom in on subterranean construction of north tower. Silhouette of workers from inside north tower. Wide shot first few stories of north tower under construction. Zoom in on external ironwork north tower of World Trade Center moving into place. Welder at work. Forklift operator delivering structural component through window and rotating into place. Pan from inside north tower emphasizes open design with no internal columns, as noted by narrator. Two workers guide external ironwork into place for north tower World Trade Center. Worker stands on top of ironwork in mid air. Pan of north tower under construction from ground to sky. External structural member rotated into place north tower. Brief aerial view of construction from moving plane. POV from north tower World Trade Center in late 1970 of the last piece of ironwork being lifted into place. Aerial view of completed north tower. Aerial view nearly completed north tower next to south tower under construction. USA flag raised alongside completed north tower World Trade Center during topping out ceremony December 23, 1970. Construction workers cheering during topping out ceremony. USA flag displayed at top of radio tower on the north tower. Women going through rotating door of World Trade Center. Pedestrians in World Trade Center hallway. Hundreds of pedestrians emerging from escalators into the World Trade Center circa 1973. Woman secretaries and administrative workers at desks in the World Trade Center. Elevator lobby of World Trade Center. Zoom out from sign that reads "The World Trade Institute at the World Trade Center in the Port of New York" to workers gathered at round conference table. Zoom out to view of completed World Trade Center twin towers as seen from ground.
Newsreel quote saying, “Lusty and glamorous was the Theater of Yesterday, when every actor worth his salt was a hardened trouper”. Dramatization of a late 19th century vaudeville group disembark from a train. Train porters unload a huge luggage. A 1894 poster of Bessie Bonehill, an English vaudeville singer who toured widely in the United States, saying, “Bessie Bonehill: And they never came back Playmates”. Actors sitting together near a ticketing booth in a New York train station. Close up view of an elderly vaudeville actor. Vaudeville actors talking with each other. “Haines & Vidocqs Metropolitan stars!!”. Curtains rise inside a theater. Poster of vaudeville stars, Jimmy and Florence Plunket, saying, “The Plunkets Jimmy Florence Broadway to you”. Vaudeville stars Jimmy and Florence Plunket, the former wears a top hat and the latter in a sequined A-line dress, perform a tap dance onstage.
View of dock with yacht in a New England coastal town. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, on vacation from presidential campaign, waves at his supporters as he sits in the boat with his sons, probably James Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., and Elliott Roosevelt. Nautical flag, likely means “2”, is hoisted up the yacht before it sails. Franklin D. Roosevelt, wearing white fisherman’s hat, smiles and waves at supporters before he sails. Franklin D. Roosevelt waves to supporters as his yacht sails away from the dock. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s yacht sails away for a refreshing summer cruise. Franklin Roosevelt in swimming pool with daughter, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Dall Boettiger Halsted, and young granddaughter Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Seagraves (nee Dall). Franklin D. Roosevelt plays and cuddles with granddaughter, Eleanor, while in the swimming pool. Anna watches her father play with her daughter.
Police rush to contain a Communist demonstration in New York City near City Hall during the Great Depression. Communist demonstrators confront policemen and are shoved by a cop . Policeman clubbing demonstrators in crowd. Police on horse back amongst demonstrators. Policeman escorts a demonstrator after arresting him. Policemen accost a resisting demonstrator. Cavalry police confront communist demonstrators. Communist demonstrator lying on the ground, below policemen’s legs. Communist demonstrators disperse to avoid policeman.
Intertitle saying “1905”. View of Low Memorial Library inside the campus of Columbia University (535 West 116th Street New York, NY 10027). View of Alma Mater, Daniel Chester French’s sculpture on the steps of the Low Memorial Library. Suffragist demonstration with women suffrage movement participants (sometimes called suffragettes) surrounded by supporters on a busy street and then by themselves, wearing thick winter coats, posing and talking together.
A railway train passes by through an industrial in America during winter. The train roof and fields are covered in white snow. Snow covered coal barges being towed by a tug boat in New York harbor.
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