Mix of stationary shots and point of view (POV) shots out front window and side window of a moving car. View of New York City apartment building. A man reads a book while sitting on apartment stairs. A bus driving on Port Authority Bus Terminal bridge. Sign with flashing arrow reads “Lincoln Bridge” A grocery store with sign reading, “Leon Feder Italian-Spanish-Greek-American Groceries”. Men working at a gas station with gas pump in foreground. A billboard for Alfred Felson for Service trucking behind sign pointing to Lincoln Tunnel with warning sign “Trucks keep right”. Cars and buses moving towards Lincoln Tunnel (Lincoln Tunnel, New York, NY 10018, United States). A police officer directs traffic. Buses lined up near Lincoln Tunnel in front of Hertz vehicle lease building with Empire State building in background. Vehicles enter the Lincoln Tunnel. Cars driving inside Lincoln Tunnel as seen from a vehicle. New York bus 66 driving through tunnel. Vehicles emerge from the Lincoln Tunnel, slowing down as they pass through toll gate. Approaching a toll gate as seen from a moving car while officer gives toll ticket. Distant view of New York City skyline from car driving in New Jersey. A Suburban Transit Corp Bus number 298 driving towards New Brunswick after emerging from Lincoln Tunnel. Vehicles passing through an overpass. Cars approaching the New Jersey Turnpike tollgate. Road signs read “You have left the Turnpike. New Jersey Maximum Speeds- 25 mph built-up areas, 50 mph open area” and “Slow down and live!”. Several scenes show various 1950s cars driving on highways and roads.
A poor shirtless and barefoot white boy running in a trash-strewn alley. Signs read “Furnished Apartment for rent” and “Room for rent”. Shirtless boy smiles. A Greek-style column on apartment porch with wood rotted base. A boy holds a pet bird while standing beside two shirtless kids. A shirtless young girl walks barefoot. Three boys lean on railing of dilapidated porch. Elderly woman walks out of apartment building holding hand of a young girl. View from moving car of Broad St. in Atlanta. Pedestrians walking along the sidewalk in front of Lane Rexall Drug store on Broad St.
World War II restrictions on movements of civilians in the Eastern United States, are referenced by U.S. Army Lieutenant General Hugh Aloysius Drum, Commander of the Eastern Defense Command, and Mr. James M. Landis, Director of the U.S. Office of Civil Defense. They look at a large map showing the U.S. Eastern states and coast, from Maine to Florida. General Drum discusses Public Proclamation number 4 issued by the War Department, and urges citizens to read it. (It is posted in U.S. Post Offices and describes restrictions on the movements of citizens near war plants and beaches.) General Drum speaks of a uniform system of controls needed for U.S. Civil Defense. James M. Landis, Director of the Office of Civilian Defense, adds his comments about the importance of Civil Defense measures.
Activities of the U.S. civil defense officials in El Paso, Texas, during "Operation Alert" (civilian mass evacuation drill during Cold War preparations for potential nuclear weapon attack). A civil defense official pulls down the handle of a Thunderbeam siren control boxes on a tower. A tower with insulators on top. A line of cars being driven on road including a school bus. Mountains in the background. A U.S. aircraft in flight above the cars. A civil defense flag in the background. A civil defense official speaks on microphone. Side of the car reads 'Texas department public safety'. Officials move around cars. A civil defense official talks to a woman, a red cross worker. An American red cross flag in the background. A line of cars leave. An official directs the cars.
The nation salutes war veterans on Memorial Day in New York. The troops march with American flags. Young boys watch the parade holding American flags in hand. Officials drive past in cars. Soldiers pay tribute to the Civil War veterans and heroes of later wars. Crowd watches from side of parade. A young boy wearing a World War 1 helmet watches. Another boy holds an American flag. A veteran, likely from World War 1, missing one leg and walking with crutches, goes by. Civil War veterans are driven by, riding in the back seats of cars. The Civil War Soldier's and Sailor's Memorial at 89th Street and Riverside is seen in background.
Scenes from the first International Civil Aviation Conference (ICAO) in the city of Chicago, Illinois. At the invitation of the United States, delegates from 51 nations arrive to begin drafting and concluding the Convention on International Civil Aviation (Chicago Convention), including discussion on freedom of aircraft traffic in the world's aviation routes. Opening scene shows the Stevens Hotel at 720 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, United States, with automobile traffic driving past it on the street. Delegates from 51 nations are seen entering the hotel Grand ballroom, being monitored by U.S. Army Military police, as they enter. View from inside the ballroom as delegates enter. Some are seen standing around a globe of the world, discussing the transfer of military air routes back to civilian operations, in the future after the end of World War 2. View from a balcony of the delegates gathered below. Closeups of delegates from: Belgium; a military aviator in uniform, representing Haiti; delegates from Iraq, India, Australia, and Norway. Assistant Secretary of State, Adolf A. Berle Jr., Head of the U.S. delegation, delivers a brief welcoming speech, on behalf of President Roosevelt, from a podium behind which flags of participating nations are displayed. He speaks of the importance of freedom of air space, noting that closed air space can lead to war. He says that the air which God gave to everyone, should not become the means of domination over anyone.
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