John Philip Sousa's U.S.Navy Band of the Great Lakes Naval Training Station leading a World War I Liberty Loan parade on a city street (possibly in Chicago, Illinois). Behind them two cars are seen and other marchers carrying signs. One sign reads: "Chip In." Numerous spectators line the sidewalks. View from above of the band in formation for a concert. John Philip Sousa and his wife, Jane, pose in front of a residence. He wears the uniform of a Lieutenant in the Naval Reserve. (Note: During World War I, the Navy asked Sousa to train bandsmen at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center. On May 31, 1917, at the age of 62, he accepted a commission as a Lieutenant, in the U.S.Naval Reserve and organized a new band at the Great Lakes Center. His fame attracted so many band recruits that he was able to form several Navy bands for other Navy bases and units.)
Film begins showing allegorical statue of woman named "Brooklyn" by sculptor Daniel Chester French, on granite pedestal at Brooklyn side entrance to the Manhattan Bridge in New York City. Scene shifts to Police directing traffic of motor vehicles and horse-drawn wagons on the Manhattan Bridge in New York City. Barges and ships seen below the Manhattan bridge on which electrified train is running. Burns Brothers Coal loading facility on the river's edge. Point of view shot from first car of electrified railroad train traveling over the Manhattan bridge with dual tracks. Another train is approaching on the other track. A roadway is seen rising up parallel to the railway, on the right of the screen. Several cars on it are heading through the Manhattan Bridge Arch and Colonnade. Side view of the Manhattan Bridge over the East River in New York City. Docks are seen at river edge, below. The Brooklyn Bridge is seen dimly in the background. Commercial traffic of horses and wagons, cars, and trucks along road beside East River piers. Many appear to be food purveyors. The Manhattan Bridge crosses the entire area in the background. Several pedestrians are seen strolling near the Manhattan bridge Arch and Colonnade. Top of Manhattan Bridge seen in closeup.
Newsreel quote saying, “Lusty and glamorous was the Theater of Yesterday, when every actor worth his salt was a hardened trouper”. Dramatization of a late 19th century vaudeville group disembark from a train. Train porters unload a huge luggage. A 1894 poster of Bessie Bonehill, an English vaudeville singer who toured widely in the United States, saying, “Bessie Bonehill: And they never came back Playmates”. Actors sitting together near a ticketing booth in a New York train station. Close up view of an elderly vaudeville actor. Vaudeville actors talking with each other. “Haines & Vidocqs Metropolitan stars!!”. Curtains rise inside a theater. Poster of vaudeville stars, Jimmy and Florence Plunket, saying, “The Plunkets Jimmy Florence Broadway to you”. Vaudeville stars Jimmy and Florence Plunket, the former wears a top hat and the latter in a sequined A-line dress, perform a tap dance onstage.
Train carrying New York Governor and Presidential Candidate Franklin Roosevelt (FDR) arrives to a huge crowd of supporters in Springfield, Illinois. Franklin Roosevelt waves at the crowd from train caboose. Train carrying Franklin Roosevelt journeys towards Atlanta, Georgia. Crowds outside the Atlanta, Georgia State Capitol (Georgia State Capitol Building, 206 Washington St SW, Atlanta, GA 30334) showing support for Franklin Roosevelt. Franklin Roosevelt laughs and smiles with supporters as he sits in a convertible car. Franklin Roosevelt gives a speech under a floral arch to his Atlanta, Georgia supporters. With such a warm welcome, Roosevelt notes to those gathered that “insofar as carrying on a campaign in Georgia to get votes, my visit to this state has not been exactly necessary!”
Adolf Hitler arrives by train in Roma Ostiense station in Rome, Italy (Partigiani Square, - 00161 Rome). King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy greets Adolf Hitler with a military salute. Italian Premier Benito Mussolini and Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano greet Adolf Hitler with Roman Salute upon arrival. Adolf Hitler shakes hands with King Victor Emmanuel III, Benito Mussolini and Count Ciano. Adolf Hitler addresses cheering Italian crowds from the Bernini balcony of the Quirinial Palace, the royal residence of the King of Italy (Piazza del Quirinale - 00187 Roma (RM)). In Rome’s Roma Termini Station (Piazza dei Cinquecento - 00185 Rome), Adolf Hitler says goodbye to Benito Mussolini and Count Ciano before he boards the train heading for Florence and Germany. Adolf Hitler waves at crowd from train window.
Workers load supplies in Calcutta port in India during World War 2. A crane lowers stacks of boxes. Indian laborers roll artillery shells. A row of United States army trucks. Various materiel and military supplies, including rolls of chain link fencing and rolls of barbed wire. United States soldiers prepare a row of tanks for shipment. A transport boat on the Hooghly River in Calcutta, India (present day Kolkata, India). Sign on boat reads, "Rambari." Transport boat sets sail for the Brahmaputra River. A train begins to depart on the Bengal-Assam Railway. Indian worker transfers boxes to another train during a stop. Laborers repair train tracks damaged by monsoon rains. United States Army Douglas C-54 Skymaster planes in flight.
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