Views of the crowning ceremony at the Miss America beauty pageant in 1945, and winner Bess Meyerson on stage. Next scene shows Bess Myerson years later as Commissioner of Consumer Affairs for New York City enters a car, car on road on streets of Manhattan, New York City. View of New York City buildings from a moving car. Views of various consumer goods, with price tags on them, people buying. Views of manual cash registers ringing up totals. Views of consumers in markets, stores, and supermarkets. Views of Consumer rights protection office, men and women at work. Women and men on phone. Consumer protection officer at a store, checking different food items. Views of items in butcher or meat department. Interior of a laboratory, food items are tested. Officials working in an office. Commissioner of Consumer Affairs in her office, various items on her desk. View of many different grocery items moving on a checkout belt toward a store cash register. Store worker lifts paper grocery bag and hands it to shopper. Consumer Affairs Commissioner walking on streets of New York City and greeting a woman passing by.
Players playing the game of Lacrosse. History of lacrosse. Views of a stadium, one team is dressed in red and other one in yellow. Old pictures depicting the history of the game. Team members in rest room. Girls playing Lacrosse. Views of Astrodome stadium in Houston and scenes from collegiate National Championship game between the U.S. Naval Academy (Navy) and Johns Hopkins University. Crowd cheering.
Several passenger airplanes parked at John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) and views of passengers waiting inside the terminal building. People in early 1970s fashions. Views of an aircraft taking off. Exterior of the JFK airport, interior of a flight control room in the control tower with air traffic controllers at work Passengers in U.S. customs processing area. Terminal buildings of the JFK airport. Planes taking off and planes landing at the airport. TWA and Pan American airplanes seen among various aircraft. Passengers greeting family and friends with smiles. Sign boards (some electronic and some mechanical flipping signboards) show arrival and departure information.
Cornelius McGillicuddy, better known as "Connie Mack," was manager and co-owner of the Philadelphia Athletics baseball team for 50 years. He is seen here at age 84, sitting alone in the dugout at Shibe Park, making motions as if he were repositioning his fielders during an actual baseball game. In other scenes, he poses in the stadium with his sons Earle (in uniform) and Roy (in civvies), and his grandson, Connie Mack III (not the future U.S. Senator) also in uniform. (Note: There were two Connie Mack III's -- one was Roy Mack's grandson and the other was Connie Mack, Jr's son, the future Senator.)
Staff of a government entity, in the United States, consisting of several men and a woman, stand in a line facing a senior official who places packages of papers on a table. Interested persons stand about, awaiting permission to pick up the papers. They are all permitted to see the papers, at the same time. The senior official makes a formal statement about the information being released, speaking into a radio broadcast microphone.
Diego Rivera painting a mural on a scaffolding painting. Rivera carrying a color palette in one hand and painting brushes in the other. Mural is partially completed. Spectators are watching from balcony. Rivera is seen painting on canvas, sketching on wall. Rivera is coloring the mural, views of artist at work at the Detroit Institute of Arts.
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