Citizens of New Jersey, USA participate in mass calisthenics (physical exercise). Men do exercises in an open ground (stadium). Women dance and form circular formations holding together their hands. Spectators cheer from their stands.
A large group of unemployed people in New Jersey march during Great Depression. Banners read 'We want immediate relief'. Unemployed citizens take over the State House in Trenton, New Jersey. Unemployed men sitting in the State House. The men sit in the house till the Legislators promise relief aid. From an April 27, 1961 newsreel depicting events 25 years earlier.
The New York world's fair of 1939-1940. View of Manhattan, George Washington bridge. Aerial views of buildings and other skyscrapers of New York City. People gather on the fairgrounds. People outside various buildings. Exhibitions, bands, dances, statues and flags at the fair grounds. Statue of George Washington. The United States Government building and different state buildings in view. Woman and two girls seated on a bench as they eat ice-cream cones.
During the 1940 Presidential election campaign, President Franklin D. Roosevelt rides the streets of Buffalo, New York, in his limousine, a 1939 Lincoln V12 model 1708, special parade car, built for the President's use. Escorted by several motorcycle policemen, and followed by a car of Secret Service agents, it stops in front of the City Hall, at 65 Niagara Square, where a large welcoming crowd is gathered. The McKinley Monument is seen behind them in the square. Police and uniformed guards control the flag-waving crowd. The President, bundled against the wind in a cloak, makes some remarks recorded on a microphone of radio station WBNY. Several enthusiastic women supporters wave American flags at the front of the crowd. The next scenes show the Presidential limousine and escorts traveling along streets of the commercial district of Buffalo. Spectators line the sidewalks and cheer the President. A final sequence is taken from a car moving in the motorcade. It shows members of the Presidents party, and a police official waving spectators away from the motorcade.
Excerpts from the 1940 National Invitation Basketball Tournament Quarterfinal game already underway between Oklahoma Aggies and DePaul at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Numerous scoring scenes are shown in the course of the film, many of them involving long set shots. (Oklahoma won 23 to 22 and advanced to the Semifinals.)
Sweeping panoramic landscape view of land in New Mexico, in the American southwest. Point of View (POV) shot from a moving car through windshield looking out on deserted highway road in remote area. Small houses and businesses in a small town. A street and bushes. Men stand in front of houses. A covered wagon drawn by horses moves on the street. It stops. A Native American Indian woman and a child in the wagon. The woman starts the horses again and the wagon rolls on.
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