Views of the streets of Manhattan, New York. High rise buildings that make up the skyline. The New York Stock Exchange at 18 Broad Street between Wall Street and Exchange Place. The Trinity church building at 79 Broadway. The busy Wall Street. Statue of George Washington in front of the Federal Hall National Memorial Building at 26 Wall Street. People and taxi cabs passing by.
Views of the courts of New York. The VII District Police Court and the XI Judicial District Court are shown. The busy streets have a number of cars running. 1937.
Robert Moses,controversial visionary urban planner of bridges, highways, and worlds fairs, inter alia, for New York City, from the 1920s through about the 1960s. He is seen at a desk in his office, wearing shirt and tie, but no jacket. A large map of Greater New York, including New Jersey and Long Island, is on the wall behind him. He makes and receives telephone calls. Scene shifts to another office, where he appears wearing a jacket. He reviews papers containing planning ideas including sketches. Mr. Moses annotates some of the documents.
Meeting of the Fusion Party, at the Manhattan Opera Center, during campaign to elect a Mayor of New York City. Their candidate for Mayor, Fiorello LaGuardia, is introduced to the crowd. The crowd welcomes him. 1934. The sequence is repeated several times and there is only a momentary bit of sound (when LaGuardia is introduced as the next Mayor of New York).
Promotional documentary titled 'By The Way of Panama - California The Golden'. Describes views of California to be seen on a cruise from New York, via Panama. The sea shores of California with rocks and sand. A passenger ship sailing in the harbor of San Diego. Views of the San Diego Harbor. The ship, called the "Pennsylvania" reaches harbor of Los Angeles. Various landmark buildings and busy streets of the city of Los Angeles. Filmmaking: A Hollywood movie studio (RCA studio) with shooting underway on film set. Luxury homes of LA. The ship moves on to San Francisco. The harbor of San Francisco including Alcatraz Island in background. Views of the surroundings from a high ridge in San Francisco.
Chinatown Chinese colony in San Francisco. Chinese woman with her child. Golden Gate Park with Japanese architecture and temples. Japanese women in traditional Japanese dresses. Mothers and their children in a garden during spring season with trees in full blossom. Beautiful natural scenes of valleys and mountains in northern California.
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