"City Pastorale" shows citizens of New York City hurrying about their business during workday on a street in New York City. Vehicular traffic and pedestrians. People riding on the subway. Views of workaday foot traffic along New York sidewalk in midtown Manhattan. Macy's department store. Racks of clothes being wheeled along the streets and sidewalks. Scenes of New Yorkers in hectic activity. In contrast, are shown peaceful scenic views of New York City. Penthouse gardens. Clothes drying on a rooftop line. People entering a number of different churches in Manhattan, New York. A woman in a garden. A man and a boy sit and read newspapers in the garden. The young boy looks at the "funny papers" (comic strips). A man walks with a child on a sidewalk. Cars parked. People chatting on the sidewalk of a New York city street. The Chrysler Building and nearby skyscrapers. People taking pictures with handheld cameras at a playground. Families with babies. Children playing in a park. Quiet streets. Car drives beneath an elevated train. Men walk on a ramp. People relax on beaches. Older women gathered together on the beach talking, while boys play in the sand at the edge of the surf. A huge crowd seated in a baseball stadium and watching a game between the New York Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers, including a shot of Giants pitcher, #36 ( Mickey McGowan ?), throwing from the mound and, in another scene, Giants #23 (Clint Hartung ?) batting and striking out. Views of the fans watching the baseball game, including some men in suits and boys sitting together in the bleachers watching the game and eating ice cream on a stick. Visitors stroll through the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
A documentary film depicts psychology and living habits of Japanese people during World War 2. Japanese men work in factories and operate machinery. A Japanese supervisor guides an employee before work in the factory. Both wear kokumin-fuku worker uniforms. A young Japanese man sweats while operating a machine. Japanese men welding armored cars in a war production arms factory. Indoctrination of Japanese children. A Japanese woman takes a young baby in her lap. A Japanese baby is fed from a small saucer. A baby is put to sleep on a small futon. A young Japanese woman with a child stands in front of the flowers. Japanese boys engage in rough play outdoors. A woman sings a lullaby as the baby sleeps in the cradle. Young Japanese boys sit with their family for dinner and are trained to sit traditionally. Japanese wife pours sake for her husband.
Infantile paralysis victim Fred B. Snite, Jr. in his mechanical respirator in Chicago, Illinois. He is taken to a railroad station. A mirror is attached to his iron lung. He is taken to the station in his customized trailer. People stand at the station. Polio victim Fred B. Snite, in his iron lung, is pushed up a ramp into his own railroad car. Traveling companions gather at the back of the railroad car as the train departs. Sign on back of railroad car reads, 'Dixie Limited'
The German Army in conflict with Russia in World War I. A map of Soviet Russia, showing cities of Kiev and Odessa. Snow covered roads in Russia. German army vehicles move along the snow covered roads. Scene from First World War, of German General Paul von Hindenburg and his deputy, General Erich Friedrich Wilhelm Ludendorff, leading procession of officials and officers across a railroad train platform. Lieutenant General Helmuth von Pannwitz, Cossack Cavalry Commander, on horseback in a public square. Lieutenant General Anton Denikin with Cossack troops in winter weather coats and hats, talking and laughing. German troops on the march. German commanders review troops occupying a city (Odessa, 1918?) What appears to be a baroque-style cathedral in background. Occupying German troops parade through streets of city. German soldiers on guard at a large building entrance. A sign on a building reads in German 'German Commander'.
Animated map shows shrinking area of Tsarist Russian control as Bolshevik influence from Russian Revolution moves across Russia, leaving central region around Moscow still politically contested. Russian troops run through a snowy rail yard, next to a flat car on which an automobile sits. Bolsheviks board another flat car. Mikhail Kalinin speaks forcefully to a crowd, and later, with a cigarette in his mouth, mingles with young people in the crowd. People receiving Bolshevik newspapers at a train depot. Newsmen conversing. Another speaker delivering an impassioned speech.
Communists march on Moscow street, carrying rifles.Russian military personnel load ammunition, and a French 75 artillery piece, on a flat bed railroad car. Russian woman talks on telephone, outdoors. View, from onboard open rail car, as it proceeds. Flanked by Communist flag, Vladimir Lenin gives a speech from balcony of a building. Flat bed rail car carrying French 75 artillery piece with Communist troops sitting around and on top of it. Point of view shot from atop moving railroad train cars filled with Communist troops. Communist leaders with large stars on their hats. Communist troops line up beside their rail cars at a depot. A band leads Communist marchers. Men ride horses.Crowds walk to assemble in Red Square. A band of muscians plays while holding sheet music in their hands. Vladimir Lenin converses, on podium, with another Communist leader dressed in leather. Russian women and boys read Communist flyer. Lenin speaks to crowd. Behind him is statue of figure in toga, with scroll over left arm while right arm holds aloft a palm branch.Communists parade in Red Square, as Lenin looks on. A momentary glimpse of Soviet Russian troops parading in Red Square some years later.
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