'$6,500,000 Pier Fire'. A raging fire rakes a railroad pier at Weehawken in New Jersey. Huge fire seen at the harbor. A cameraman takes pictures. Ambulances maintain vigil. In Tokyo, Japan, flames destroy the enlisted men's mess at the Palace Heights housing community. Enlisted men and their families flee from, from their Quonset type homes while the fire was being fought. People run to save their belongings.
The 1947 college football Sugar Bowl in New Orleans, between the University of Georgia and the University of North Carolina. Huge crowd gathered to watch the game. Players seen on the field in the rainy weather. Players seen in line of scrimmage. Georgia Bulldogs wins North Carolina Tarheels. Final score is 20-10.
A Curtiss Tractor biplane on field at Hammondsport New York. Pilot John Cooper and another man seated at controls.
Huge crowd in New Orleans celebrate in the Mardi Gras Fete. The crowd marches and celebrates in Royal Street in the French Quarter during the Carnival. The floats in the parade are carried by mules. A man dressed like a king ride one of the grand floats. The floats are elaborately decorated. A couple with missing teeth laughing.
An angry property owner locks his automobile to a tree in an effort to halt a pipeline ditch in New York City. The ditch is being dug through his plot. The workmen burrow around his automobile. The owner is forced to abandon his blockade.
Window washers hang in the air by thread-like belts hundreds of feet above ground. They clean the panes of the huge Empire State Building (20 W 34th St., New York, NY 10001). Breeze whips the men as they cling to narrow perches. Men on the streets raise their heads to look at the window washers above.
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