Commodore George Dewey leads a land parade on “Dewey Day” after his arrival in the United States following the Spanish-American War. Army cavalry, one of the soldiers holding the United States flag, in the parade along Eighth Avenue, Manhattan, New York City. Men in uniform follow the cavalry. U.S. cavalry soldiers with sabers follow the uniformed men.
View of community in South Bronx in New York City. The film gives details like the population size and the number of unemployed males. A plane in view. Aerial views of South Bronx New York show children playing on roofs of buildings. Aerial view of woman collecting clothes from clothes line on roof. Aerial view of pigeon coops and pigeons on roof. Boy flying kite from roof. Girl balancing on roof while boy hammers wood on roof. Aerial view of elevated train. Boys play basketball. POV sequence shows views of South Bronx and New York from a moving elevated train moving along Westchester Avenue near E. !56th Street, first through front of train and then through side. Short sequences cut in show boy swinging baseball bat, man smoking, youth choking another from behind.
New United States Army Air Force Curtiss P-40 aircraft being placed on flight line at Curtiss Aircraft company facility in Buffalo, NY (the Buffalo Municipal Airport) during World War II. A new P-40 aircraft being rolled out of the Curtiss hangar. Employees push several new P-40s. The aircraft are seen parked on the ramp.
Scenes shot on a Wednesday afternoon in the South Bronx, New York City. View from car driving slowly uphill on Eagle Avenue heading towards 149th Street in the South Bronx, New York City. Among cars parked at the left side of a one-way street, is a 1957 Chevy that has been stripped of its tires and wheels. Apartment buildings line the street. Residents are out and about walking on the sidewalks. One man has the hood up on his big-fin 1960 Plymouth Fury automobile. Closeups as the camera car drives past some residents. Closed business establishments have heavy steel gates locked across their doors and windows. A sign advertising Ballantine beer is mounted on a building. Below it someone has painted message with partial words:"...Jtch Unknown Sinners." Small glass blocks have been broken out of an adjoining building. Camera pans down an apartment building on Crimmins Avenue, following path of external fire escape ladders. A number of people are gathered socially on the apartment house steps. A group of mixed age men play a game of stick ball in the street. A car turns into the street hugging the left side of the road to avoid interfering with the ballgame. Closeups of some players, as one (unseen) is recorded speaking about the game. (The narrator notes that this is filmed on a Wednesday afternoon in the middle of a "work week.") Camera pans people "hanging out," in the vicinity. Two men walk along the edge of an apartment building roof. A dog walks past a man tearing up a cardboard box. Men seated alone, on a fire escape; on a park bench; in a doorway; and on a box in front of a store. Boys playing frisbee and two with baseball gloves, playing catch. Police cars: one parked at a curb and one driving along the street. A young man wearing a sweatshirt with "Latin Crowns" written on it, goes into a building. Outside, another youth, in similar sweatshirt, does pull-ups on a bar at the bottom of a fire escape. A boy swings on the bar. Juvenile delinquency: Several boys start fighting and an older one steps in to break it up. A boy inhaling illegal drugs or chemicals from a paper bag, or using it to hyperventilate.
The Bellevue Hospital in New York City. Military leader General Douglas MacArthur is welcomed by the City of New York when he arrives there after being relieved of Command by President Harry S. Truman. Views of the parade from viewpoint of newsreel cameramen surrounding the general's open car. Fireboats in the harbor create a huge fountain with their pumps. Trees are inundated with ticker tape.
A B-24 Liberator bomber with nose art painted name "Laden Maiden,"of the USAAF 5th Bombardment Group, sits with engines running,on Munda Point airfield, New Georgia Island, preparing to take off to bomb Japanese shipping near Truk, during World War 2. Broader view shows two squadrons of B-24s preparing for the mission as a rain storm sweeps the island. The aircraft begin taxiing for takeoff. One with nose art name "Tim-ber," shows 25 bombs, for missions, painted on its fuselage. One departing B-24 is seen to use a long takeoff run. Narrator describes difficulties encountered by one B-24 that had to ditch during the mission. Sequence shifts to post-mission scenes the day after the planes returned to Munda.Injured crew members from the ditched B-24, who had been rescued by a Navy PBY, are being transferred to a C-47 aircraft for evacuation to a medical facility. A B-24 is seen taking off on a new mission to bomb Japanese Naval base at Rabaul. View of control tower with several B-24s in formation overhead.
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