A film titled 'A Perilous Proceeding'. A group of men climb on the cable and bucket of a large crane at the top of a building under construction. The men are lifted over the site and gradually lowered to the ground..
Huge crowd gathers as the funeral procession of Michael Vengalli passes through the streets. The five year old boy was killed by gangsters in the Coll-Schultz gang war (of the mafia or mob) when gangsters in a car from the Coll gang fired on the Schultz gang on E. 107th St in Manhattan, but missed them and hit baby Vengalli and 4 other children. The bereaved family seen weeping. People look from the windows of their homes as the cortege passes.
Urbain Ledoux known as 'Mr. Zero' offers a growler of beer for three cents (though it is not real beer, as the narrator indicates, because it is during prohibition in the United States). Crowd stands in lines to drink non-alcoholic beer. Several people drink beer and play cards. Bartender in action. A man chugs a full glass of beer.
Tie in the football match between Bulldog and Army teams at the Yale Bowl. Stecker makes a pass and Army scores the first point. Later Bud Parker plows the entire West point squad for touch-down in the second longest run ever made in the Bowl. Both teams score six points each. Huge crowd cheers the players.
Fifty-first Annual Reunion of the Harlem Wheelmen's Association in the Central Park. Several people seen riding velocipede 'big-wheel bikes' and 'bicycle built for two'. Crowd seen in the park watching the unusual collection of bicycles. Various other odd foot propelled vehicles and bikes are seen.
Protestors carry banners as they rally and demonstrate against the German occupation of Austria (Anschluss) shortly before the outbreak of World War 2. Signs seen include, "Help Democratic Spain," "Stop Fascism," and prophetic sign "Hitler Murders Catholics and Jews." An effigy of Adolf Hitler with a large Nazi swastika is carried by protestors. Police arrive on horseback to control the crowd. Various neon lights of Times Square in background.
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