Documentary about geography, markets and culture of New York Americans of future in the congested lower East Side. A crowded tenement district with shops on both sides of street. Road busy with merchandise and sidewalks of these roads, completely packed with pedestrians. A busy market in crowded ghetto. Fruit and vegetable merchants in the market. Sign in background on storefront reads, "Bokschizky & Rotkowitz 252 Pharmacists and Chemists Women buying and bargaining for the merchandise. Children in the market. A public procession passing by on the streets. A large group of marchers carrying a giant American flag together, leads the parade.
Citizens Military Training Camp in Plattsburg, New York. Troops of soldiers march on parade grounds. Soldiers carry flags. Mule-drawn carts in procession. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt Jr., (son of President Theodore Roosevelt) salutes the troops. Line of soldiers firing rifles and machine guns at their targets. Band of musicians play as two soldiers do a dance similar to what was later called the charleston. Other soldiers watch them and enjoy. Soldiers eat ice cream cones, joke around with each other and smile.
Traditional Mardi Gras in the French Quarter of New Orleans. A colorful carnival parade passes through the streets. Krewe participants in floats throw beads, doubloons, necklaces, and trinkets to spectators. The spectators on both sides of road, raise both hands to catch the Mardi Gras throws from passing floats. Pretty girls and grotesque floats on the roads in daytime and at night as well.
The sixty-eighth National Horse Show opens in New York at Madison Square Garden. Horse riders from five nations perform horse riding and jumping skills. Victorious Mexican participant General Humberto Moriles salutes the crowd holding the Goodwill Challenge Trophy on his horse. Spectators clap and give a standing obsession to the winner. Canada Mounties (Royal Canadian Mounted Police Musical Ride) stage their spectacular riding skills and ride in formation.
Jewish people in New York City lower east side are seen in crowded outdoor market areas, busy shopping in shopping for foods for the Jewish passover festival commemorating the Exodus from Egypt. The lower east side Ghetto busy with Jews buying matzos, and people unable to afford matzos (during Great Depression) are given matzos at no charge .Merchandise and push carts lined along streets. Shops and shopkeepers bargain with customers buying foods. Men wearing hats and beards, and women are in the lines. Hebrew writing on store front windows. Line of Jewish people outside a building of a Jewish charitable agency supplying matzos. Men and women seen after receiving matzo bread.
Immense rush of pedestrians, cars and vehicles causes traffic congestions and jams on roads of Manhattan, New York City. Groups of men talk to each other in groups on the sidewalks. Two young women in dresses walk by as group of men look on and admire them. Man in suit drops newspaper in trash can; next man walking behind him takes the newspaper back out and walks on. Rush of 1930's cars, trucks, buses, and other vehicles on city streets. A man attempts to cross the street on foot but cannot find a break in the traffic. A man escorts a young child across busy street. Two women run across street toward a Chop Suey restaurant. Pedestrians pause in middle of road and prepare to finish crossing busy street. All vehicles stopped in a traffic jam on city streets. Close view of a taxi cab meter continuing to run during traffic jam. Another taxi meter view (made by Pittsburgh taximeter company). Impatient man in a taxi stands up and looks through open sun roof at jam of cars. Fare continues to escalate in taxi cab. Man exits cab in middle of jammed street and pays driver. Huge masses of pedestrians moving on sidelwalks and crossing streets, and exiting tall office skyscraper buildings. A giant crowd of men in hats beneath an elevated subway track and heading toward subway entrance. Police officer directs traffic on streets. Automated signal light with moving sign arms is seen. Various police officers directing cars and pedestrians. Many street sign messages shown close up. Man smokes cigar as traffic passes by. Another smokes a cigarette. Mass of traffic and pedestrians.
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