Danish Gymnastics team exercises aboard USS New York in New York. Male athletes from Denmark's Niels Bukh School of Gymnastics aboard the ship. The men demonstrate individual and collective forms of the sport.
Army Experimental Station at Pine Camp, located in Great Bend, New York, United States. Signal Servicemen check recording instruments and play sound deception records on phonograph player at Army Experimental Station. Signal Corps Sonic Company soldiers (sometimes referred to as the Ghost Army) stand in review in front of tanks and trucks. U.S. Army officers reviews them. Animated diagram shows Company headquarters and Administrative Platoon. U.S. Army servicemen skilled in sonic deception and decoy sound in World War 2 are seen recording the sound of tanks and other armored vehicles. Officials check graphs at the headquarters. Board reads AES School. Instructor takes a class in a classroom at AES School. Servicemen undergo training at the test Station. A group of students operates the sound amplifier. German headquarters shown on an animated map. Animation shows various tanks sending out sounds to the German enemy as decoy to disguise and mislead the enemy regarding actual troop movements.
New York Americans and the Toronto Maple Leafs play ice hockey in New York City. The Americans win this game 1-0 to tie the Stanley Cup semi-final series at 1-1. Toronto went on to win this best-of-3 series, two games to one.
A fire destroys arms and war materiel stores, some bound for Britain, in Jersey City, New Jersey. Waterfront fire guts granaries, warehouses and other vital property. Fire fighters fight to extinguish the fire. Fire raging from buildings. A huge crowd gathers near the fire site. The fire fighters spray water on the buildings to extinguish the fire. (World War II period).
From a short documentary film entitled, "Neptune's Realm" depicting a shellback initiation ceremony aboard the USS Indianapolis in November 1936. In this clip, slates provide background on the ceremony. Then there are scenes of the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) in New York. The ship leaves the dock with Statue of Liberty in the background. Kingfisher floatplanes visible on the ship's deck. The ship is decorated with flags, on its way to pick up President Franklin Roosevelt in South Carolina before proceeding to South America. A fleet of ships underway. Some scenes from a shellback initiation. A Polliwog looks through binoculars. Sailors dressed in costumes act during the Shellback ceremony.
Famous Italian paintings from the Uffizi Museum on exhibition in New York. Exterior view of vertical sign for the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Personnel look at a painting on the wall. Another painting of a mother with her child. Officials read a document in hand. Men carrying the painting 'The Birth of Venus' (Sandro Botticelli). Man views the “The Madonna and child” by Giacomo Palma the Elder. The “Madonna della Seggiola” by Raphael. Bronze statue David by Andrea del Verrocchio.
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