An American football match between New York Giants and Chicago Bears at Yankee Stadium in New York. The match starts. The players play the match. A score board with the scores of the teams. The spectators in a stand cheer. The players playing the match. Harlon Hills of Chicago Bears makes a shoestring catch. The spectators cheer as the Giants win against the Bears by 17-0.
The 42nd National Automobile Show at the New York Coliseum (present day site of Time Warner Center. 10 Columbus Cir, New York, NY 10019, United States), December 8-16, 1956. A sign above an escalator at the entrance reads 'National Automobile Show'. A model wearing a swimsuit seated on the hood of a 1957 Desoto convertible. Two women seated in a 1957 Chrysler 300C. Aerial view of the Buick exhibit, with the 1957 Buick Roadmaster Convertible prominently displayed. An executive version of the 1957 Cadillac features a typewriter in the back seat and a record player in the front dash. Auto executives gathered at a display featuring a row of steering wheels. President of Chrysler Lester Lum Colbert hails the future in a statement.
Wounded soldiers from European Theater of Operation arrive by Air Evac C-54 aircraft to LaGuardia Airport, New York, where they are greeted by families and friends during World War II. Film opens with view through main cargo door into cabin of a military C-54 transport parked on the ramp at LaGuardia Airport, New York. The cabin is configured for air evacuation. Inside, wounded American soldiers are seen in a rack of litters stacked four high. A man in civilian clothes holds a clip board and speaks to soldiers on the airport ramp. A man drives a fork lift to the cargo door and lowers two of the wounded on litters to the ground, where waiting family members reach down to kiss and embrace them. Photographers take pictures and Army officers welcome the wounded. Media technicians set up microphones near on soldier who is with a woman. They record as the woman and soldier embrace and speak to each other. After momentary break, scene shifts back to cargo door of the C-54, where several Army soldiers watch the activities below where women greeting two more wounded are being photographed and recorded as they are reunited. The next scene is in a hangar, where a wounded soldier is sitting up in his litter with wife or sweetheart beside him and a man and woman behind him. Two microphones are set up next to them. The young couple kiss and embrace. Closeup of them.
New life raft is introduced during National Boat Safety Week in New York. Two men standing on a boat. They throw a life raft bundle into the water beside the boat and it opens. The self inflating life raft is made of synthetic rubber-coated nylon and can hold 10 people and equipment. It has an integrated sun canopy. A man jumps onto the life raft and enters into the raft. Two men row life raft.
Annual Silver Skates Derby in New York. Large crowd of spectators gathered. at Conservatory Lake, in Central Park, Manhattan, New York City, United States. Some skaters fell. Spectators cheer the skaters. Herbert G.Taylor wins the championship and poses for picture.
Clarence DeMar is victorious in the 6th Annual Marathon against 100 starters in Port Chester, New York. Spectators lined up along sidewalks. Clarence DeMar crosses the finish line to win 385-yard race from Central Park, New York City to Port Chester.
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