A New York State Police officer questions a woman holding puppies in her hand, in Babylon, Long Island, New York. Armed State Police along with Babylon town police and Sheriff's deputies are on a manhunt. They search in a forest and a house as well. An officer sends a message by radio. Officers make inquiries among residents of the area. Several times officers are seen holding mug shots of the escaped criminal. Police employ a hound in the search. View of the hound looking out the window of a car.
View from German airplane flying over Bromberg (Bydgoszcz) Poland, during World War 2 (September, 1939) highlighting numerous bridges destroyed by the German bombing campaign during invasion of Poland. Polish civilians sit on bank of a river, next to destroyed bridge, awaiting boats to ferry them across. Makeshift ferry operations are seen. Women and children throw flowers at German troops passing in military vehicles. German troops engaged in cleanup of bomb damage and helping free a stuck military vehicle, transporting a long barrel artillery gun. Animated map shows shrinking perimeter of Polish military resistance during September, 1939. Polish Army prisoners of war marching along a road.
A representative of Prisoners War Branch (a MIS-X officer) interviews American soldiers who had escaped from the Japanese 10-A prison camp in Palawan, Philippines, and had then been rescued. Private first class Albert D Pacheco and Edwin A Petry share their experiences before they reached the World War 2 Japanese prison camp at Puerta Princessa, Palawan and the conditions there. Petry describes the famous five days long death march to San Fernando, where war prisoners were not given any food.
People line up in large number to enter Hotel Waldorf Astoria to view General Motor's auto show Motorama in New York City, United States. Sign reads “GM General Motors Motorama of 1953” at the entrance of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel (301 Park Ave, New York, NY 10022, United States). Men form long lines on Park Avenue. Dancers perform a ballet in front of a large audience during the motor show.
Cars being blessed in St. Christopher's Day ceremonies. Catholic priests bless nearly five thousand motorists and their cars on Saint Christopher Day at Saint Christopher's Church (11 Gale Ave, Baldwin, NY 11510, United States) in Baldwin in New York. Cars are anointed with holy oil, as they pass by the church in a day long procession. Boys riding bicycles are also blessed.
View of Goodyear Hall in Akron Ohio, and downtown streets of Akron Ohio from an elevated view. Goodyear Hall and clock tower with flags of different nations hanging from its walls. Scene change to a village across the Pacific and native workers extracting and collecting rubber from rubber trees with hand tools. Workers picking cotton at an Arizona cotton plantation and finished bales of cotton. Scene change again back to Akron Ohio, where spectators enjoy a Goodyear Company baseball game at Seiberling Athletic Field. Well dressed men, women, and children seated in the stands at the baseball game for the Goodyear Wingfoots. Women War production workers manufacture gas masks with rubber pipes at a Goodyear factory early in World War 2, before America's entry into the war. They are seen exiting the factory after the work day is over. Aircraft parts for Britain and America being manufactured at a Goodyear factory that houses the company airship dock, 3 blocks long and 30 stories high. Exterior views of clearing and construction work beginning for two more aircraft construction facilities near the Airship dock. Two men test low pressure aircraft tires and brakes of a Good Year plane. View of many cars parked as employment and facilites expand at Goodyear facilities.
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