Meeting of the Fusion Party, at the Manhattan Opera Center, during campaign to elect a Mayor of New York City. Their candidate for Mayor, Fiorello LaGuardia, is introduced to the crowd. The crowd welcomes him. 1934. The sequence is repeated several times and there is only a momentary bit of sound (when LaGuardia is introduced as the next Mayor of New York).
Newreel titled 'Plane Hits Wall Street Skyscraper'. Remains of the plane lying on the ground after it collided with a skyscraper on Wall Street, New York. The building struck by the plane and the damaged part of the building. Destroyed wall of a living room. People carry the dead in a casket out of the building. Smoke pouring from the building, viewed from ground level. Crowd of people near the remains of the plane. Views of New York Harbor from a hole in the building, with rubble from crash in foreground.
Film opens showing aerial view of a United States B-29 Superfortress bomber aircraft in flight, then scenes of numerous U.S. Army Air Forces warplanes and bombing (partially obscured by on screen newsreel text). Next, crowds are seen jamming Times Square in Manhattan, New York City, celebrating victory over Japan in World War 2. (Known as V-J Day or Victory over Japan day, marking the end of World War 2, on 14 August, 1945.) A facsimile of the Statue of Liberty has been set up in the square. Moving lights on Times Building motograph news zipper or ticker announce Japanese surrender. Jubilant celebrations and smiling Americans wave American flags. Closeup of the Statue of Liberty facsimile. A woman dances the Lindy Hop with a U.S. Navy sailor, as others (including many servicemen in uniform) watch.
Views of Manhattan, Brooklyn and other areas of New York City. A crowd of men and women near the Young Men Christian Association (YMCA) building. Tourists step inside a sight seeing boat at harbor. Freighters, tugs and ferryboats at the harbor. People seen walking near the buildings and in Central Park in Manhattan. Skyline and water front areas of Manhattan Island, and views of tall buildings and early skyscrapers of New York City . Tourist boats in Hudson River pass under the Brooklyn Bridge.
German dirigible Graf Zeppelin during its flight over New York, United States. Graf Zeppelin written on the nose seen during its flight. The cabin windows. Low winged single engine airplanes escort the dirigible. It sails over the Statue of Liberty. Crowd on streets and house tops wave greetings to the dirigible sailing overhead. Graf Zeppelin sails over New York buildings and the Manhattan bridge,
Kidnapping case of twenty months old child of aviator Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh. Grand Jury hearing in New York. Colonel Lindbergh arrives at court, protected by several policemen. Crowd outside court building. Policemen and detectives inspect suspect Hauptmann's house in the Bronx, New York. Jury members give their verdict that prime suspect Bruno Richard Hauptmann wrote all kidnap notes. Police official gives his statements. Lindbergh moves out of court, sits in car and drives away. Hauptmann's wife, Anna Schoeffler Hauptmann, seen singing a bedtime song in German to her young child, Manfred Hauptmann (Manfred Richard Hauptmann).
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