United States 82nd Air Borne Division troops march during a victory parade in New York City United States. U.S. Army Major General James M. Gavin and the 82nd Airborne assembled at Washington Square. Gavin leads the parade and gives order to lead the march. The division marches along Fifth Avenue with the Washington Square Arch in the background. Crowds line the sidewalks. Thirteen thousand men of 82nd Division march down Fifth Avenue. People watch the parade from windows and roof tops of buildings.Some spectators lean out over balcony to get better view. New York City mounted police and foot patrolmen maintain crowd control. Sherman tanks pass the statue of Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman, at East 60th Street. A formation of C-47 aircraft, towing gliders, flies overhead. Troops pass a review stand in front of the New York Public Library, in which are seen New York Governor, Thomas E. Dewey and New York City Mayor, William O'Dwyer. Nearby, Former Mayor and Mrs. Fiorello LaGuardia review the parade with a group of Military General Officers The American flag flies from a building. The parade includes armored vehicles and 45 ton self propelled 8 inch howitzers. (One of them has "Georgie Patton" painted on its side.)fly overhead. Vehicles, troops and color guards pass in review.
Life of a Manhattan window cleaner working on skyscrapers in New York City, United States. The New York skyline. Views of landmark buildings and skyscrapers of Manhattan, New York City. Skyscrapers showing dirty windows. A window cleaner walks on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan. He enters the Empire State Building (20 W 34th St., New York, NY 10001). He enters an office in the building. He attaches a safety belt and steps out of a window. The window cleaner cleans the exterior of the window. Another window cleaner cleans a shop window and wipes the glass. Views of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1000 5th Ave, New York, NY 10028, United States). A window cleaner places a ladder and climbs it up to reach a window. He cleans the window. A window cleaner cleans windowpanes. The window cleaner cleans exterior of the window and gets into office. He goes away after completing his work.
Celebration of the Roxy Theatre’s 32nd anniversary in New York City. Pedestrians cross the street in front of the Roxy Theatre (153 West 50th Street New York City United States). Theater marquee on display in front of the Roxy Theatre advertising the movie Rio Bravo and a new stage show. Hollywood actress Lana Turner arrives in New York to attend the Roxy Theatre’s 32nd anniversary. Lana Turner holds a bunch of balloons. A group of photographers taking photographs of Lana Turner. Lara Turner releases balloons on the Great White Way outside the Roxy Theatre. The balloons contained guest tickets to Universal-International's new hit film "Imitation of Life".
Aerial views of Mitchel Field in Hempstead Plains of Long Island, New York. Major General Frank Andrews of U.S. Army Air Corps, General Headquarters Air Force, and staff standing around a large plotting board, with models of airplanes, guns and boats on the plotting board. They are planning a test of the defense of aircraft factories in the region from air attack. Five PB-2As parked in a row at Mitchel Field. Crew operating range finder and aircraft sound detector. Soldiers turn searchlight to the right. Fireman opens switch box door on wall and pulling switch to notify power station staff of the drill, which was the first aerial bombardment blackout drill of its kind in the United States. Workman pulling main power switch in power station to create blackout conditions in city as protection from aerial bombing. Night time aerial views of City of Farmingdale in New York lit up and then going dark all at once as power is cut during blackout. Batteries of the 62nd anti aircraft post artillery swing into action operating searchlights directed at incoming bombers. The bombers drop flares during the test, as ground crews practice locating the "enemy" aircraft in search light beams.B-10, the all metal monoplane bomber in flight during night. Flares descending. In the mock test, the bombers prevail and the defenses fail to protect all of the aircraft factories. End of clip shows elevated night time views of New York City and Times Square area as seen from the air and from high up tall skyscraper buildings of Manhattan. Bright lights and lit signs of city seen from above as narrator suggests the threat against New York City from aerial bombardment by a foreign force (early in World War 2).
The buildings, architecture, and busy streets of Lower Manhattan, New York City. The Tammany Hall (44 Union Square E, New York, NY 10003, USA), City Hall (City Hall Park, New York, NY 10007, United States) and the Manhattan Municipal Building (1 Centre St, New York, NY 10007, USA). Pedestrians and cars in Lower Manhattan. 1934.
Foreign students at the International House of University of California, Berkeley, converse with each other while dining in a dining area. Brazilian student hosts the newcomers. He is recounting is time in New York. Scene shifts to New York City. A foreign student walks on the sidewalk and stops at a coffee shop in New York. Student finds it difficult to place an order while he converses with the waiter. An old friend joins him. Friends chat. Friends leave the coffee shop and stroll through the streets. Views of pedestrians and traffic with Washington Square Arch in the background. Students visit an art show in New York's Greenwich Village. They look at the paintings along the wall and converse with an artist on the roadside. Artist shows his product. Back at Bekeley in the dining room, a student lights up his cigarettes. Students dine.
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