The launch of the "Golden Age Movie Club" in New York, a new discounted movie theater club for Senior Citizens aged 60 and over. Movie theater business men Schwartz, Stark, and Brandt come out of a building and meet former Vaudeville performing stars Pat Rooney and Bert Wheeler, who are seated side-by-side in the back of an open vehicle. They shake hands and talk amongst themselves. Schwartz hands a Golden Age Movie Pass to Stark. Mr. Schwartz then presents a Golden Age Movie Club card to both seated men. Closeup view of the pass, with membership for people more than 60 years of age depicted on the card. Next scene show "Mary Manning Walsh" written on entry portico outside a senior care Catholic nursing home building. Men and women sit in a hall inside the building, together with a nun of the Carmelite sisters, and they are presented Golden Age Move Club passes. Views of elderly men and women at a movie theater box office. They are greeted by Hollywood actor Donald Crisp who is serving as usher. The patrons enter the movie theater lobby.
J. George Freedman, Commander-in-Chief of the Jewish War Veterans addresses crowd of protesters at American Jewish Congress demonstration against Adolf Hitler and Fascism, held in Battery Park, New York City, United States. He speaks outdoors from porch of park shelter, with many loud speakers on its roof. Elevated train seen in background. Anti Nazi demonstrators march along trolley tracks. New York City police on horseback along park walk steps. Overviews from a height above the park of marchers protesting against actions of Nazi Germany.
With World War 2 tensions simmering, German and Italian agents and their families, expelled from the United States, bid farewell to relatives and friends at New York port. Distant view of USS West Point carrying agents and their families back home. Ship underway with New York City skyline in background. Axis country diplomats or agents prepare to board chartered airplane.
Documentary by Harmon Foundation titled "If a boy needs a friend". Shows efforts by a teacher and the Young Men's Christian Association to fight antisemitism and children's hatred and discrimination against Jews. Shows Sixth-grade boys in New Haven, CT refuse to play with a Jewish boy. Group of boys on playground climb hands up a stick to see who picks team members first for a baseball game. Captains of each team choose teams, selecting boys one at a time. One boy, a Jewish boy, is not picked. He asks a captain if he can be on that boy's team. The boy says no because he is Jewish. The boys begin pushing the Jewish boy to chase him away, and he turns and leaves sadly. Scene changes back to school administration office. Teacher provides a list of the offending boys from the Willard School. She asks help from male secretary of the New Haven YMCA. Secretary promises teacher to send a qualified leader from a club.1940. (World War II period).
Journalists, Robert Sherrod , Harold Horan and another staff person look through photographs to accompany a news story, at Time Magazine offices in New York.
Snow covered streets in New York City. People walk past shops on 5th Avenue. People do window shopping. Leather bags , costumes and hats on sale inside the shops. Snow covered on cars parked along the side of a street in New York City. Snow covered areas and leafless trees.
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