Two men load WMCA station wagon with equipment for an on-the-spot report. Station wagon on its way to the UN building along busy streets of Manhattan, New York City. It reaches its destination. Men edit and re-record each day's UN session taken by tape recorder. View back in studio of WMCA radio station with men working with the recording.
Car with letters of radio station WMCA drives by. Announcer says baseball is one of the station's most popular programs; the station broadcasts home games of the New York Giants. Large crowd of fans in suits and hats enter the Giants' stadium, the Polo Grounds. View of packed stands as announcer is seen talking into microphone. Fans enthusiastically cheer action from a Giants baseball game against the Brooklyn Dodgers. Clip transitions to other WMCA programs. Announcer in Broadway theater district interviews man on busy sidewalk at dusk during program 'Man on the Street'. Marquee of Victoria Theatre (136 West 46th Street) in background advertises movie "Ten Tall Men" starring Burt Lancaster. Dancers in public park do a "square dance" broadcast by the station. View of many couples participating in the square dance. Madison Square Garden marquee at night.
Exterior view of Madison Square Garden marquee at night. Boxing match at Madison Square Garden. Busy street level views of Times Square at night with lighted neon signs. One Times Square building electronic news ticker Motograph News Bulletin aka "the zipper" displays presidential electoral results. WMCA radio news announcer at microphone with control room in background. Closeup of announcer at microphone. Close up of clock with label reading "Naval Observatory Time Western Union" WMCA radio control room engineer on phone and at controls. Close up of transmitter controls as the engineer powers down the transmitter. Night view of WMCA building with neon sign.
Teenage boys and girls at a juke joint in an American city. Teenage kids dance on dance floor beside a juke box, and drink soda. Sign on wall says "Absolutely no liquor permitted." Teenagers sit at table. A teenage boy pulls a glass flask of liquor from his pocket and pours it into the drink of the girl sitting beside him. Man joins the party briefly. Boy at the table smokes a cigarette and talks with girl and with another boy at the table. He pours liquor into the other boy's drink also.
Young couples dancing together in the World War 2 era. A sailor with a young girl by a juke box. People dance on floor (actors, in a period-authentic reenactment). Sign atop juke box reads, "Only couples allowed on dance floor." Girl stands in front of juke box choosing a song. Young U.S. Army soldier approaches her and starts to dance with her. People dance and sailor looks on. Several takes are shown with the latter scene. Older man and a woman sit at a table and talk. Young man in an adjacent table asks the older man for a cigarette, which he gives to him. The old man smiling and smoking. The younger man behind him in the other table is seen smoking.
Three teenage boys gather outside a building. They take out marijuana joint cigarettes from box and start smoking.
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