Fidel Castro steps down plane during his arrival for the United Nations 15th General Assembly in New York. Castro's car stopped near a gate to greet a crowd of supporters cheering him. New York police huddle around the car and urge him to proceed on and not stop. Castro arriving by car in Harlem New York after transfer there from another hotel in midtown. Khrushchev meets Castro in the street in Harlem and they hug as police stand by for protection. View of United Nations building. The Cuban and Soviet contingents seen together greeting one another at the assembly hall of the United Nations. Castro goes to the stage to begin delivery of a record speech exceeding four hours. The chair is seen interrupting at one point in the interest of time. Castro addresses delegates. Castro boarding a plane supplied by the Soviet Union for his return to Cuba. Castro on stage surrounded by a crowd in Cuba. View of a lone Cuban farmer sweating as he works in the sun on a farm field.
Video about famous African American collagist, artist Romare Bearden, in New York. View of 1970s car and truck traffic on Canal Street at lower east side intersection of Canal Street and Broadway in New York City. A man walking to the apartment of Romare Bearden. Sign on mailbox reads "Romare Bearden and Rohan, Top Floor". View of an African American painter and sculptor walking on city streets and then heading toward the Cinque Gallery of art at 20 West 72nd Street in New York City. Romare Bearden with people at the Cinque Gallery displaying the works of the artist. People look at the man's paintings and sculpture. Romare tells of his time as a young artist trying to get started in the Great Depression. Still images of unemployed men in a line. Views of other artists and writers Bearden would work with and share studio space including Jacob Lawrence and Claude McKay and Charles Alston. Group picture of the a group of African American artists and intellectuals of the time who knew each other. Bearden with his wife, the dancer Nanette Bearden, at his home studio. Mrs. Bearden brings him a drink and sits and watches Romare Bearden work on a collage. Close-up views of a collage that Bearden is working on, which focuses on themes of the African American experience.
A police car is parked crosswise in center of snow-covered street. A sign of the New York City Housing Authority at the construction site for the "Alexander Hamilton Houses" in Harlem, New York City (The 21 story buildings were completed in 1965 and are at 2446 Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard , New York, NY). Snow at open area. Several high-rise apartment buildings are seen. Free-standing signs advertise prices for pork chops and frozen foods. Several closed and apparently out of business storefronts are seen. A Cleaner's shop. A sign reads "Manny's Billiards". A restaurant named "Little Jim's" selling “fish and chips” and “chicken and chips”. “Alicia’s” hairstylist shop front. Two children pass by the shop. A hair stylist shop. A sack outside a laundry shop. A religious shop named “Eastern Star” sells hosiery and different types of perfumes such as “Compelling”, “Cleopatra”, “Come to Me”, “Love Perfume” and “Money Perfume”. Religious store also sells a “Lucky Seeing Eye Cross!” and "Learn to see things past." Sign for "Daniel's Billiards". Coca Cola advertisement flanking store sign. Pepsi Cola advertisement also seen in window. View of "Rena's French Dry Cleaners" shop. Sign in window advertises stain removing. Two African American children holding a bottle. They smile and point at something in the distance.
Nighttime scenes in Harlem, New York. Count Basie's bar at 132nd St. and Seventh Ave. in New York's Harlem. Neon sign at Big Wilt's, an African American nightclub (2294 7th Avenue New York City). Apex Beauty School stands above Big Wilt's. Neon lighted signs and marquees read "Moondog with Ace and the Kings.", The Harlem Moon bar and grill. Signs read "Barbecue" , "Chop Suey" , and "Chow Mein" Jim Moon Chinese restaurant. A sign reads "Join now NAACP Applications available here". Facades of Bermuda Bar and Silver Rail bar. Rates of fish, shrimp and chicken are displayed at the Gilmar Self Service Food Center in Harlem.
Camera pans over name of new "Harlem Boys' Club" and then to inscription on building reading: "The Children's Aid Society of the City of New York." A small African American boy walks along the sidewalk and pauses to look up at the building. The scene is repeated with another take. Closeup of the boy. observers in the background. A girl enters new building, with cornerstone reading: "AD 1940." Several boys and girls of elementary school age enter the building, one at a time. African American children playing on swings in a play ground. A man pushes a small child on a swing. An apartment house directly across the steet from the playground. View across the playground of the swings and houses across the street. A very small boy walking on the playground.
Dramatization shows people gambling and betting in different ways, and shows scenes from a casino in New York City. A group of men huddled together throwing dice (playing craps) and betting cash on the game. A man holds a glass of wine while gambling. View of punch card lottery tickets and gambling scrip for a game of chance. A New York Journal American newspaper front page story about "Sweeps Winners" (sweepstakes). Front page held up of the "Daily Racing Form" newspaper. Two men in suits and hats examine the newspaper, and discuss the newspaper. One of the men is smoking a cigar. He communicates his bets to the other man, a bookie (bookmaker), who takes notes on a notepad. A board atop a quilt reads "To be raffled off at the church supper Friday evening". A woman comes and pays another woman for a raffle ticket. A display reads "Church parlor Friday night - Play bingo - money prizes!" A man and four women play bingo. One of the women excites as she wins. A newspaper heading reads "Bingo banned by Lutherans in New York Churches". Slate states that the various forms of gambling lead to crime and delinquency as people learn to get something for nothing. Two boys sneak up in front of a storefront and steal fruit from a stand in front of the shop. The shopkeeper sees the theft, comes out, and yells after the thieves.
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