An African American artist opens his coat in United States. R W Lindsey prepares a fish sculpture with a child. A woman studies a book. Richard William Lindsey at a class observes students' paintings. Malvin Gray Johnson comes with a board, sits and paints. Paintings at a wall. W Ellisworth Artis prepares a sculpture. People at an exhibition of Spanish African American art. Next scene appears unrelated, and shows pedestrian traffic on a busy New York City street, with many men and women walking on the sidewalk beside stores and shops. Next scene shows a stopped subway train at a station in New York City. Men and women and a few police officers exit the train onto a crowded platform, as other riders wait to board the railroad train. Next scene returns to an art studio view, with African American painters at work. Final scenes show a Harmon Communities map depicting Long Island in New York, and view of a train passing slowly through a switch yard area or marshaling yard.
Scene is football field, set up in the in field of the city racecourse at Tsingtao (Qingdao) China, in 1946. The unusual thing is there are no goal posts. U.S. Marine and Navy spectators stand around the field, and some occupy a small viewing stand. Various multistory buildings are seen in the far background, as the camera pans about,following the play on the field. Players wear football uniforms, and leather helmets. One team (probably Marines) wears Khaki jerseys and the other (probably Navy) wears white. As the film begins, one Khaki team player is being helped as he walks off the field, while others attend to a player lying on the ground. Play resumes with a play in the Khaki end zone, followed by a Khaki kickoff to white, who return the ball. Camera stops there and switches to another Khaki kickoff. White seems unable to overcome Khaki defense on the ground and resorts to a long pass that is intercepted by Khaki. The rest of the film shows glimpses of plays on the field. A White team player is seen on the ground attended by sailors. Play resumes again, with Navy punting. As the game ends, players of both teams walk off the field and are greeted by Marine and Navy spectators respectively. Camera shows view of the much larger racecourse area that encompassed the playing field. U.S. military trucks begin driving over the field. Scene shifts to view from a grandstand at far end of the racecourse, near buildings in downtown Tsingtao. Marines and sailors are leaving the field. Camera pans over the large racecourse infield where marines and sailors are cleaning up the playing field. Change of scene shows U.S. Army Lieutenant General Albert C. Wedemeyer, Navy Admiral Charles M. Cooke, and a Rear Admiral, sitting with Madame Chiang Kai-shek. She is examining an American football, as the Rear Admiral explains it to her. Scene shifts to more shots of the football game including several fumbles. It ends with Khaki team huddle.
Posters of U.S. President Dwight D Eisenhower on buildings during his visit to China. A banner reads "Long live Sino-US friendship". Large crowd during procession welcomes President Eisenhower with banners and President's cutout. Sailors on a ship in sea at Northern coast of Taiwan. A helicopter arrives. Soldiers with the U.S. and Chinese flags. Military officers walk. A U.S. Marine helicopter lands. Chinese dignitaries and diplomats. President Eisenhower arrives in helicopter. President meets diplomats and Chiang Kai Shek. An American photographer clicks photos. President Eisenhower reviews honor guard with Chiang Kai Shek. President Chiang Kai Shek addresses. President Eisenhower addresses. Both Presidents shake hands. President Eisenhower shakes hands with officers. He sits in car. Planes fly over head. Presidential motorcade goes. People show banners in Chinese. Traditional dances by Chinese women. President Eisenhower waves to a large crowd sitting in car. American children with flags in their hands.
Ethnically diverse people along streets in New York City. People of Chinese origin in Chinatown. Scene changes to a Jewish area with signs on market shops in Hebrew. A board at a shop reads "Strictly Kosher A Goldberg & Son Poultry Market". A view of busy shops and push cart vendors on Orchard Street near Delancey Street on the lower east side of Manhattan. Store fronts visible include Cohens Opticians at 117 Orchard Street. Two men in hats talk together. One of the men has a long beard. Scene changes to Harlem with an elevated view of sidewalk as pedestrians walk by and children play, fencing with toy wooden swords. African American men talk in a Harlem neighborhood of New York City (likely Harlem). African American children play games and skip rope. A boy writes with a chalk on a sidewalk.
Robert Moses,controversial visionary urban planner of bridges, highways, and worlds fairs, inter alia, for New York City, from the 1920s through about the 1960s. He is seen at a desk in his office, wearing shirt and tie, but no jacket. A large map of Greater New York, including New Jersey and Long Island, is on the wall behind him. He makes and receives telephone calls. Scene shifts to another office, where he appears wearing a jacket. He reviews papers containing planning ideas including sketches. Mr. Moses annotates some of the documents.
Views of a racially segregated school for African American students. Children can be seen playing and running in the playground, playing around the trees. Food relief: African American students wait in a long line at the public school for bread distributed by Emergency Relief of Tennessee Administration during the Great Depression. People in a crowded market area. Sign on one store reads "Nichols and Hendrix Furniture and Stoves".
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