Street scenes and landmarks in midtown and lower Manhattan, New York City. The camera focuses on children, such as several shown on sidewalks being pulled along by their mothers. Traffic and pedestrians shopping near 7th Avenue. A girl looking at mannequin models wearing latest fashions in department store windows. A boy looking at the Empire State Building. View of Manhattan from Brooklyn Bridge Park. Children (mostly boys) are running and playing. One rides a bicycle. A tugboat nearby in the East River. (Boys throw stones in direction of a passing tugboat.) Skyscrapers are seen across the river. View of elevated train moving overhead, with skyscraper buildings in background. Views from the moving railroad train. A boy riding inside the train, looking out at the tall buildings. Views of skyscrapers of New York City as seen from moving subway car or train car. Children with adults looking at Manhattan views and landmarks from the observation deck of a building. A girl looks down over the edge of the deck.
Two High School boys stand on a New York city street. Tenament buildings are behind them. children play on the sidewalks and in the street including one riding a home-made roller skate box scooter with the number 2 on it. The boys walk past many children. They are making not of buildings with inadequate fire escapes. Scene suddenly shifts to a boy standing on a bridge overlooking railroad tracks. He is annotating a map or buildings along Lexington Avenue in Manhattan. Next, the student is seen presenting information about this matter and engaging in a discussion about it with classmates. Later, a student spokesman is seen presenting findings about housing inadaquacies to an assembly of people. Local people demonstrate in the streets, carrying banners decrying current conditions. Scene shifts to new housing projects with playgrounds and seemingly better conditions for the residents. Children are seen running in Central Park. A woman (teacher) with children on a ferry boat looking at the skyline of lower Manhattan. (World War II period).
The city of New Orleans in the United States. Jackson Square with the Saint Louis Cathedral and other old buildings in the background. The house of Jean Lafitte, a pirate. A sign outside the house reads 'Absinthe'. Equestrian statue of Andrew Jackson (Andrew Jackson Equestrian Statue, Jackson Square, New Orleans, LA 70116, United States). A large old plantation house outside the city.
A film titled 'Victory' about the first ever atomic bomb test in New Mexico, United States. Exteriors of some of the secure manufacturing and factory buildings that were part of the Manhattan Project production efforts. Military guards watch over the factory. View of the desert in New Mexico. Cactus in the desert. Views of the nighttime first atomic bomb test explosion in history, known as the Trinity test, seen from different distances and camera positions. Smoke cloud rises up from the first ever atomic bomb explosion. (World War II period).
U.S. aviation pioneer General James Harold 'Jimmy' Doolittle sets a new air record for flying a passenger airplane from Burbank, California to Newark, New Jersey in twelve hours. Doolittle and his wife seen looking at a map. They both board the waiting aircraft, American Airlines’ Vultee V-1A Special NC13770. 'Shell' oil company symbol written on the airplane. The airplane taxis and takes off from Union Air Terminal, Burbank, California. Aerial view of the airplane in flight over mountains. The airplane in flight over the clouds. The airplane lands at Newark Airport and taxis on a runway. Hangars and a building in the background. Doolittle exits the airplane with his wife at and greets people waiting. They pose for pictures beside the airplane.
American gas mask laborers in New York City are rewarded a matinee prize for their speedy work in New York during World War I. The women war time production workers stand in a group wearing hats. The women in a truck riding on a street. The women wave to the onlookers on the street and the truck has a sign reading, "Champion Team. U.S. Gas Defense Plant." The women stand outside a theater. The women enter the theater for the movie show.
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