New York City celebrates the Armistice ending World War 1. View from above of crowds on 5th avenue, in Manhattan, New York city, gathered at Madison Square, around the Altar of Liberty designed by architect Thomas Hastings, to honor the homecoming troops from the World War. The crowd forms a sea of waving hats, hands, and flags. Scene shifts to George Washington Statue at Federal Hall, Wall Street, which has been draped with American flag and signs reading: "Liberty cannot die." A clergyman stands below the statue and paces back and forth like a cheerleader. Closeup of a bearded Jewish man, wrapped in a Yiddish newspaper announcing the end of the war. He is blowing a horn and has an American flag and a blue and white Jewish flag fastened to his back. Camera pans over young women dressed in costumes as: soldiers, nurses, drum majorettes, the statue of liberty, red cross workers, and Uncle Sam. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
The 1963 Belmont Stakes Derby in the New York Aqueduct Racetrack (110-00 Rockaway Blvd, Jamaica, NY 1142) of Queens, New York. Crowd watches. Horses including Chateaugay, Braulio Baeza, Willie Shoemaker, Bonjour, and Candy Spots run in the Kentucky Derby. Audience cheers them. Chateaugay wins the Belmont Stakes and 100,000$ price money. Candy Spots comes second.
Employment for African Americans in the Great Depression provided by Works Progress Administration (WPA) Projects in New York, United States. African American students in an adult school write in a note book. Teacher writes on blackboard. Young men and women learn Spanish from a volunteer from Nation Youth Administration. Boy learns work of a lab assistant and work on a machine. Men and women learn clerical work of filing, checking and new work as abstraction. A woman learns typing.
Employment for African Americans in the Great Depression provided by Works Progress Administration (WPA) Projects in New York, United States. Actors of Negro People's Theatre troupe perform in Shakespeare's play 'Macbeth,' (known as the "Voodoo Macbeth") directed by Orson Welles, at a theater in New York under the Federal Theater Project. Actor delivers dialog in the play, set in 19th century Haiti instead of Scotland. Body of Lady Macbeth (Edna Thomas) on floor. Fight scene in play with Maurice Ellis as Macbeth, slain by Macduff. Three witches and Macbeth and Macduff on floor. Witches hold cut head. Final scene of play finishes. Viewers clap as the curtains drop. Curtain raises and actors bow.
Three news correspondents: Mr. John J. Nevin - International News, Mr. Robert Bender - United Press, and Mr. L. O. Pobert - Associated Press, United States, seen talking amongst themselves. The three men board the USS George Washington leaving for Europe to cover the Paris Peace Conference. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
People gathered at the Lee theater in Fort Lee, New Jersey for a double anniversary celebration. The 50th year of New Jersey Borough and commemorating the country's first permanent motion picture studio. The Glenn Miller Story being shown at Lee theater. A banner put up for the event from May 23 to 29. Cameraman photographing turn of the century bathing models with a hand cranked camera. People watch the models. Mayor Louis F Botjer presents an anniversary plaque to a theater person. Bess Myerson, Miss America 1945 looks at the plaque. Cars on the road.
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