Lighting on the buildings, shops and streets of Manhattan. Montage mixes Times Square lights with scenes of people dancing, enjoying music in clubs. Door man hails taxi for couple at night. A musician puts his trombone into its case. The lights turn out exterior of apartment building. A police man twirls his night stick as he "walks the beat" at night. Lighted 'Port Authority of New York' sign. Trucks come off of ferry at night in New York City. Workers from country towns load fruits and vegetables in a truck. Truck carries milk cans before dawn. A milk tanker pulls up to dairy at night. An Esso fuel tanker truck pumping gasoline into gas station tanks at night. Bread is loaded into a bread truck at night. Flowers removed from green house loaded into truck at night. Commodities of daily requirement like newspaper, bread, building material transported by trucks in midnight. New cars transported on a car carrier truck at night. Man shoveling sand from dump truck at night.
Different models of cars, including the all-new Corvette, are displayed at General Motor's Motorama in New York, United States. A man and woman demonstrate the Corvette as it turns on a turntable. The man demonstrates the telescoping steering wheel. Automobiles shown at this event included the Buick Wildcat, Pontiac La Parisienne, Oldsmobile Starfire, Chevrolet Corvette, Cadillac Orleans and Le Mans. Men and women get into cars and take a closer look at the new models being displayed.
S.S.Queen Mary sets a new mark across Atlantic. British liner, S.S.Queen Mary moves across the Atlantic. S.S.Queen Mary ship reaches New York in a record time of four days, eight hours and thirty seven minutes, from Cherbourg water break, to the Ambrose Lightship. Biplane aircraft fly over the Queen Mary ocean liner as she nears the coast. The Statue of Liberty is also seen in harbor of New York City.
A film titled, 'International cars: Many lands exhibit new models' shows people looking at nearly 500 cars being displayed for the International Automobile Show at coliseum in New York, United States. Car parts, machinery and new safety devices in steering and braking also being displayed. Vintage cars are also displayed at the show.
Beatification of Italian American religious sister Frances Xavier Cabrini (Francesca Saverio Cabrini) in New York. Devout Roman Catholics file past the glass coffin bearing the relics of Mother Cabrini, at the chapel in Mother Cabrini High School (701 Fort Washington Avenue Manhattan, New York City, New York 10040 United States). A wax mask of Mother Cabrini’s face covers the saint’s skull. Priest in the chapel during Mother Cabrini's Beatification Ceremony. Nun in Black habit kneels in front of her coffin.
The 71st Infantry Regiment of the 44th Division, New York / New Jersey National Guard arrive at a Fort Dix, N.J. for training. Guardsmen and new recruits coming out of train at railroad station. They march towards the camp. They are seen erecting tents and setting up a complete camp on the field. Lieutenant General Hugh A. Drum, First Army commander, in glasses, wearing campaign hat, and Major General Clifford R. Powell, 44th Division commander, wearing garrison cap, pose in front of the Fort Dix Officers Club. Soldiers taking their belongings to the tents. KPs and mess attendant peel potatoes for a meal. One soldier sets up as a barber and shaves others. After camp is set up, some soldiers are seen resting on cots inside their tents. (World War II period).
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