Police paddy wagon pulls up to a building and policemen unload donated toys. View inside a workshop where police volunteers repair and repaint toys to make them ready as gifts for poor children at Christmas during the Great Depression. Several boys and girls watch the men at work and view tables piled high with toys. Scene changes to streets of New York City filled with pedestrians, shoppers, and automobile traffic during busy holiday shopping season. View inside a large multi-level department store filled with crowds of busy shoppers looking at items in display cases, walking through, and riding escalators to other levels.
Eastbound I-278 in Staten Island New York City. Eastbound Staten Island (Clove Lakes) Expressway. POV through windshield of car driving as overhead direction signs read 'Kennedy Airport' and 'Brooklyn Queens Expressway/Long Island Expressway/Manhattan'. Vehicles approach toll plaza and cross Verrazzano Narrows Bridge into Brooklyn. Vehicles passing under the tower arches of the bridge. Vehicles pass Shore (Belt) Pkwy connectors, onto Gowanus Expressway. Excellent views of bridge towers and views of Brooklyn.
U.S. First Lady Mrs Anna Eleanor Roosevelt and Princess Martha of Norway at a gala pageant in Madison Square Garden, New York City. Mrs Roosevelt and Princess Martha open a drive to collect funds for the Red Cross. Both of them on the stage. A huge gathering enjoys stage performances.
USS Triton submarine successfully completes the first submerged circumnavigation under Captain Edward L Beach. USS Triton in water. A helicopter flies Captain Edward L Beach to the White House where he receives the Legion of Merit from the President Eisenhower. Photographers click for pictures. USS Triton enters the home port of New London, Connecticut. The crowds cheers. A navy officer meets his wife. A sailor with children.
Lottery winners in New York City. People on the street. The winner of the sweeps ($ 150,000) with her husband. An old lady talks to her grandchildren. A dog on the lap of a boy. People crowd outside the shops. A man and a woman hold roses in their hands at a crockery shop. View of a motion picture camera as pictures are taken of a winning family. A family looks out from a window of their house. A winning bartender draws a draft beer from tap for himself and drinks in front of the cameras. An African American woman speaks after winning $ 150,000 in sweepstakes, declaring herself to be "the happiest girl in Harlem."
Horse race at Wood Memorial in Jamaica, New York. People at Wood Memorial to watch the race. Jockeys on horse back. The race begins. Competition between Nashua and Summer Tan. Spectators in the stands cheer and watch the race. Nashua wins the race.
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