Interiors of Immigration Building at Ellis Island in New York, United States. District Director's Office showing Director Byron H. Uhl and Board members at table. Director Uhl talks over phone. Corridor with photographs of foreigners in native costumes. Corridor with door signs reading 'Deporting Division', 'Board of Special Inquiry - Hearings and Appeals', 'Witness Room', and 'Reception Hall'.
Chinese detention room at Immigration Building at Ellis Island in New York, United States. Chinese men at recreation. Young Chinese men play ping-pong, read, play Mah-Jong. Immigrants seated around the Great Hall (Registry Room) as they read and talk. A boy stands next to a woman as she knits.
Penicillin treatment of wounded American soldiers in action during World War II.at Halloran General Hospital in Staten Island, New York. Doctor packs penicillin into deep buttock wound. Nurse injects substance into a patient's arm. Doctor packs thigh wound with a penicillin.
A cycling contest held at Coney Island in New York. Cyclists cheered by crowds ride bicycles on a track. Policemen try to control excited spectators. Italian rider Franco Georgetti wins the contest and holds the winner's trophy.
UN delegates are seen gathering for a meeting of the Security Council at the temporary United Nations headquarters in Lake success, Long Island, New York. One of the first to be seated is Andrei Gromyko of the Soviet Union. Another delegate stops to converse with him. Camera pans across delegates settling into their respective places at large curved table. Their nations are identified by placards at each place. Attention is focused on French Delegate Alexandre Parodi, who has apparently just been elected President of the Council for the month of May, 1948. At TC: 00:54, He is seen standing with Secretary General Trygve Lie. And at TC:01:19 he gently uses a gavel. At TC:01:28, another delegate holds the gavel with him as they laugh. After a while, the delegates settle down and begin to conduct business.
Opening scene is an animated map showing Coast Guard Stations on Long Island, New York and on New Jersey coasts. Aerial view of Coast Guard Station Number 75. Narrator says manual life boats are launched into the surf from this Station. Camera pans closeup over the station, showing its buildings. Aerial view of inlet on South shore of Long Island from which powered life boats can launch into calm waters. Aerial view of the Fire Island (Long Island) Coast Guard Station with launching runway for power boats. Ground level closeup of the Fire Island Station. A power lifeboat being launched down its runway. Water level view of the power lifeboat speeding along the inlet towards the open sea. View from a height of the path the power lifeboat will follow to the sea. Change of scene shows map of life guard stations along Eastern shore of Maryland, the coast of Virginia and area around the mouth of Chesapeake Bay, with focus on cities of Norfolk and Newport News. It also extends South to outer islands of North Carolina. Battered hulk of a ship in surf in this area.
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