United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt his wife Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt, and with with his newly appointed Cabinet and Admiral William Standley aboard the Cruiser USS Indianapolis (CA-35) to view U.S. Navy maneuvers. Views of U.S. battleships, the carrier USS Lexington (CV-2) and other ships in sea. Office holders like U.S. War Secretary George Dern, Secretary of Navy Josephus Daniels and others can be seen. Biplane aircraft in a flight formation over the naval fleet as it passes New York City. A gathering of people watches fleet; A U.S. flag can be seen. Views of New York City skyscrapers on Manhattan Island in the mid 1930s.
Views of Times Square, a major intersection in Manhattan, New York City of Broadway and Seventh Avenue and stretching from West 42nd Street to West 47th Streets. Sign on the post 'W 42nd Street, Time Square, Broadway'. 42nd Street and Broadway can be seen. Pedestrians and vehicular traffic at 42nd Street and 7th Avenue.
Views of Times Square, a major intersection in Manhattan, New York City at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue and stretching from West 42nd Street to West 47th Streets. Pedestrians and vehicular traffic at 43rd Street, 7th Avenue subway station on Time Squares. Times Square area looking north showing the Hotel Astor, the Bond Building and Loew's State.
Views of buildings and skyscrapers on Ellis Island, just outside New York City. Exterior of pilot house, pilot at wheel. View of the detention building for incoming immigrants. Deckhand tying up boat at slip.
Habib Bourguiba, President of Tunisia in a car in motorcade from Broadway to City Hall in New York. A huge gathering at the sides of road. Bourguiba waves at people in front of Chock Full o’ Nuts Café on Broadway. Crowd cheers the President Habib Bourguiba, and President also greets them back. President is then received by Mayor Robert Wagner and wife Susan Edwards at City Hall, New York City. Wife of Bourguiba, Mrs. Moufida Bourguiba, is also present.
A documentary titled 'Women and the Community'. Aerial view of city of Monroe New York. A railroad train runs on track carrying commuters. Closeup, from outside, of engineer seen through window of the train. Two men working as City Planners in an office. One is pointing at a region of Monroe on a wall map. Both are looking at the map on the wall. A sanitation worker man dumps garbage into a garbage truck. Postman making deliveries to houses in a neighborhood. Snow is on the ground but cleared from sidewalks and streets. At one house, the mailman knocks on the door and delivers the mail personally to a Mrs. Carter, the occupant. View of Mr. and Mrs. Carter at breakfast table with their two small daughters (depiction is classic family of 1950s with husband and his wife in homemaker or housewife role). Mr. Carter, a lawyer, is reading the morning paper, while Mrs. Carter opens the morning mail that includes a sample ballot for the upcoming local elections. She shares it with her husband. Their oldest girl in the family reaches for the ballot and knocks over her glass of milk, which Mrs. Carter quickly mops up. The postman is seen on his route into the shopping district, View of local grocer placing purchases of a customer in a paper bag. The mailman gives him his mail. He also gives a letter to a Mrs. Brown, who is in the store, shopping. The local dentist meets the mailman as he enters his office, and takes the mail from him. Inside his office, patients are waiting. He gives the mail to his secretary. A Mrs. Gates and her son accompany the dentist into his inner office. An elderly couple collect the mail from their rural outdoor mailbox. The mailman enters the local high school to deliver mail. Inside. students are seen using microscopes in a science lab class. Student, Mary Collins focuses her microscope. The science teacher checks the image in Mary's instrument .As the postman continues his rounds, a bus carrying voters lets them off at Fireman's hall, the local polling place, where they line up, outside. Mrs. Carter is seen in the queue, discussing her sample ballot with others.
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