Children and families face winter suffering in Queens, New York, during the Great Depression. Opening slate reads: "20,000 Queens Children Face Winter Suffering, QUEENS DIVISION , Emergency Unemployment Relief Committee." First images show modest houses with clothes hanging on lines to dry. The Queensboro Bridge is in the Background. Robert Moses, New York City park Commissioner, who is a member of the Emergency Unemployment Relief Committee of New York, is seated at a desk. Closeup of him standing. View shifts to people (mostly men) completely filling a wide sidewalk, in a food line.Close up view of legs and shoes of unemployed and hungry men shuffling forward in line. Officers check men. Men collect food. A man collects food items from garbage on ground. A group of man scavenge for food in a garbage or refuse dump area. Furniture and belongings of people being hauled to street during evictions. Food bundles given to men. A man brings food bundle inside house and presents it to his eager and smiling children seated at table. Children open the package. Long lines of people enter a municipal building and sign relief or unemployment documents. A woman stands with her sad children. A girl at doorway of a house. A young boy cries. A woman with her two sad children in a house. The woman cries.
A football game at Yankee Stadium in Bronx, New York City. Spectators cheer. The New York Giants football team take on the Pittsburgh Steelers for the Eastern Division Title. They win by 33-17 with the help of players like Yelberton Abraham Tittle (Y.T. Tittle) and Frank Gifford.
A film titled 'Black and Tan Fantasy' about jazz musician Duke Ellington and his Cotton Club Orchestra in Harlem, New York. Dramatized scene shows African American musician Duke Ellington playing piano with Arthur Whetsol playing trumpet. Two African American men talk while searching for a address. Two men enter the hall and talk to Duke Ellington. They pick up the piano. Fredi Washington enters the room. She bribes the two men with a drink. Two men leave home after finishing their drink. Fredi Washington listens to Duke Ellington and Arthur Whetsol.
From a film about jazz great Duke Ellington and his Cotton Club Orchestra in Harlem, New York. Dramatization : The Duke Ellington Orchestra plays. Men dance as the band plays. The orchestra continues to play. African American men stand in a row and dance as the musicians play.
A film about African American jazz musician Duke Ellington and his Cotton Club Orchestra in Harlem, New York. Fredi Washington on a chair. Dramatization: The Duke Ellington Orchestra plays. Character played by Fredi Washington feels dizzy. The band continues to play. The host calls Fredi Washington to perform. Fredi Washington dances. She faints while dancing. Men pick her up and take her away. Dancers perform.
From a film about African American musician Duke Ellington and his Cotton Club Orchestra in Harlem, New York. Dramatization : Fredi Washington lies on bed. The Duke Ellington band members play. People sing. Jazz musician Duke Ellington plays piano. Character played by Fredi Washington dies.
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