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African American children receive lunch and boys ride scooters at day camp in Harlem, New York City.
Milk and sandwiches distributed to African American children at Harlem Day Camp in Harlem, New York City. The children stand in a line and receive food and drink. Sign on building reads, "Childrens Aid Society of the City of New York." A group of African American boys ride scooters on the street. View of exterior of the Harlem Boys Club building.
Contrast of living conditions in New York City; children playing, cars parked and people sit outside their houses in New York City.
Elevated views and busy street views of automobile and pedestrian traffic on streets of New York City in the late 1930s. A streetcar stopped in the street. A roadside news stand. Men in suits and women in dresses walking on sidewalks near office buildings and stores in New York City. Children of late primary school or middle school age walking to school. Children exiting a school bus to go to school Two boys wrestle as a group of boys gathers around and encourages them. Girls play a game like "London Bridge is falling down." Scene changes to a farm field with a farmer plowing a field with his tractor. A farmer cuts crops with a sickle. Brief view of the main street in a small town somewhere in the United States, likely east. Scene changes again to a neighborhood with nice homes and two girls play skipping rope at a house. A woman prepares toast in a electric toaster. Vegetables and food items seen on shelves of an open refrigerator in a home. Scene changes to dense urban tenements and scenes of relative poverty in New York City. Elevated view looking out over dense tenements and apartment homes. Two young women sit on sleeping cots on a rooftop 1930s cars parked on a narrow street among crowded city dwellings, and and people sit outside their houses. Kids playing "stoop ball" throwing a ball against steps of their dwelling on the lower east side of Manhattan. A movie promotion poster advertises "Yellow Jack" playing at the Loews Commodore Theatre . Children play.
Fire consumes large North German Lloyd ocean liner Munchen (later Steuben) docked in New York Harbor, New York City
Clear aerial views of midtown and lower Manhattan, New York City 1930, but with smoke coming from Hudson River pier of New York Harbor where the North German Lloyd liner Munchen (sometimes Muenchen or München) is seen on fire, shortly after docking in New York after the voyage from Bremen, Germany. Ship emits smoke and fire at the pier. Firefighters spray water to extinguish fire. Views of the piers and slips and dock areas on the Hudson River at New York City and close up views of the firefighters battling the blaze on the Muenchen. The ship subsequently sank at dock. She was raised later in 1930, repaired in dry dock, and returned to service under the new name SS General von Steuben. The ship was sunk in 1945 by the S-13 submarine of the Soviet Union.
People in a parade and office as well as residential apartments on Lenox avenue in Harlem, New York
A film about life of the African American people of Harlem in New York City during the Great Depression. A band plays in a parade. African American residents of Harlem walk in parade on Lenox Avenue. Aerial view of the parade. People watch parade from terrace of a building. A traffic policeman at work directing traffic on 7th Street. Automobile traffic and buildings on Seventh Street. People walking by touch the stump of a good luck elm tree known as the "Tree of Hope", located on Seventh Avenue (later renamed Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd.), between 131st Street and 132nd Street in New York City. The tree was cut down in 1934 with expansion work on Seventh Avenue (also called the "Boulevard of Dreams"). People wait to cross road. Elevated views of office and business buildings on 125th street. A crowded and busy sidewalk of pedestrians on 125th street. Government housing development on banks of Harlem river for a restricted lower income group.
Vendors of New York City, lower east side street markets, businesses and New York Stock Exchange stock market activity
German propaganda film released during World War 2 shows scenes in New York City during the Great Depression in the 1930s. Shows a woman being honored by a group of men in New York as she receives an award. A crowded shopping and market area of New York City, with street vendors and laundry service. An African American shoe shine man wearing a top hat finishes shining a customer's shoes, bows, and then performs a dance on the sidewalk. A busy shopping and market area on Orchard Street in the lower east side of Manahattan, with many stores including Guiradi's Antiques Sol Moscot Optical at address 119, Cohen's Optical at 117 Orchard Street, and others. Street area filled with carts and market activity in a densely populated area of New York City. Workers inside a busy garment factory in New York. Hebrew signs in front of Jewish stores and businesses in New York. View of New York Stock Exchange floor with scenes of frenzied buying and selling as buyers and sellers yell their orders in a trading pit. Hands of a man counting a pile of cash bills. View of Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia talking to a man, a group of well dressed business men, and LaGuardia addressing a gathering of people. Clip is from an anti Jewish propaganda segment of a newsreel produced by Nazi Germany during World War 2.
Views of New York City and environs, especially Manhattan, in the United States.
Film begins showing location of New York City on a world globe, at the mouth of the Hudson River on the East Coast of the United States. It transitions to an aerial view of the Southern tip of Manhattan Island at the junction of the Hudson and East Rivers and slowly shows views moving Northward along the Hudson River. Piers along the Hudson are visible. Scene shifts to above those piers, looking South at the cluster of Manhattan skyscraper buildings, and beyond to New York Harbor, the borough of Queens, and Brooklyn, and beyond to Long Island in the misty distance. Next the skyscrapers are seen from Queens,across the East River. A large ocean liner is seen underway in New York Harbor, among ferry boats, barges, and tugboats. The Statue of Liberty is seen in the background. An animated map shows regions around New York and traces the Hudson and Mohawk valleys into the Great Lakes. The map is then overlaid with numerous lines representing transportation routes by lend, water, and air. View of Brooklyn Bridge, wharfs, and Manhattan skyline in hazy background. Seagoing freighters loading and unloading at New York's piers. A truck and other cargoes being moved by cranes. Passenger trains moving in the New York city area. View of the famous Beaux-Arts style Penn Station by architects McKim, Mead, and White, at West 34th Street and Eighth Avenue, in Manhattan. Train station interior crowded with travelers and commuters. Commercial aircraft taxiing at a New York area airport. Closeup of two young children watching the planes. Passengers deplaning from a large aircraft. Sign for Peruvian International Airways atop an airport building. A Swissair passenger plane being serviced. Passengers boarding a TWA Lockheed Constellation airplane. A family watching airplanes from an airport observation deck. The Lockheed Constellation starting its engines. A Douglas DC-4 aircraft taxis out and takes off, as several boys watch from the observation deck. Closeup of another group of boys watching planes from the observation deck. Aerial view of Manhattan skyscraper buildings from an overflying airplane. Traffic on streets at Times Square. The Astor Hotel at the left and the Times building straight ahead. Several other street scenes in Manhattan, crowded with pedestrians. A view residential apartment houses along Park Avenue. Views of African Americans crowding the sidewalks in Harlem. Views of "Little Italy" in the lower East side of Manhattan, where Italian restaurants and other businesses are seen. Chinatown is seen with some of the business signs in Chinese. A man of Chinese heritage reading a letter. Asian American children playing together in a neighborhood. New high rise apartment buildings are seen replacing older homes in parts of Manhattan. Mothers wheeling their children on sidewalks in one of the new neighborhoods.
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