A girl in Manhattan elementary school paints picture of the tall buildings she is accustomed to in her surroundings. Other children are also seen working on their paintings. One picture shows a policeman directing traffic. Another shows a fire station. A teacher uses their pictures to help the children learn to read. To help them learn counting, the teacher has a girl bounce a ball in front of the class. The children gather together as the teacher reads to them from a book. She has one boy come from the back to sit closer to her. One boy makes a face, showing how a rabbit looks when eating. The other children do it too. (World War II period).
The tower of Woolworth Building as seen from building opposite. People look on. Various views of Woolworth Building. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company building with clocks on all four sides and a sign reading: "Buy Liberty Bonds."
African American composer, pianist and band leader, Duke Ellington seated at his piano in the home atmosphere of his office in the Capitol Records Company Building. He plays a phrase on the piano then makes musical notation. Sheet music of Ellington's works are filmed in close up, including Mood Indigo, Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me, Don't Get Around Much Anymore, Black and Tan Fantasy, Sophisticated, and Caravan.
Well-dressed woman standing on sidewalk, eats at lunch stand. Other customers on sidewalk eating at lunch stand. Woman employee of diner serving coffee. Customers having meals inside a restaurant, some at counter and some at tables. Eight-slice toasters. A ham slicing machine. A woman makes sandwich. Machine dispenses pancake batter on rotating skillet. A woman serves tea and coffee to the people dining. Bread slicing machines are also available. Slices of bread pop up from the toaster. Sandwiches are being prepared. People eating wedge pie.
Invasion of Lae during WWII. Troops board troop transports from the beach. Convoy of landing craft in a line at sea. Smoke on the horizon obscures Lae with faint explosions visible. Troops from the Australian 9th Division massed on the beach as seen from the deck of a troop carrier.
Two British War Brides of United States Servicemen on board the SS Argentina after World War II. Woman doting on her baby. Three women sit together as their infant children sit on their laps. Woman smiles as she and her infant daughter look at the camera. Two smiling women holding their children, the woman on the left with an infant and on the right, a female toddler. The women and their children have dinner together onboard. Toddler in a play pen playing with a doll. A mother comforts her crying child on the playpen. A child with wavy hair uses a potty for potty training. The SS Argentina. British women disembark the SS Argentina. Women being interviewed by an immigration officer. The other British women lined up behind. British women reunite with their US servicemen husbands and mothers-in-law in the American Red Cross Auditorium.
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