Documentary about buildings of New York. The buildings and skyscrapers along lower Broadway. A dirigible airship floats overhead. The busy street with vehicles, streetcars and crowds of people walking. The New York City Hall (City Hall Park, New York, NY 10007, United States), built over a hundred years ago. The high-rise Manhattan Municipal Building (1 Centre St, New York, NY 10007, United States). The James A. Farley Building housing the United States Postal Service (421 8th Ave, New York, NY 10001, United States) on Eighth Avenue. The Flatiron Building (175 5th Ave, New York, NY 10010, United States) stands on edge of busy crossroads.
Buildings of New York. Views of Fifth Avenue, the fashionable shopping street on lower Broadway. Roads and streets busy with traffic of cars, horse carts and pedestrians. The Public Library on Fifth Avenue at the Forty Second Street. The library cost of US $9,000,000 is one of the world's largest libraries.
Geography and buildings of New York City. Riverside Drive along the Hudson River. Cars and automobile traffic on the streets and roads. Buildings and pedestrians along the road. The Tomb of General Grant, on Riverside Drive. Visitors moving in and coming out of the tomb. A statue on top of the entrance written with words, 'Let us have peace'.
Documentary about geography, markets and culture of New York Americans of future in the congested lower East Side. A crowded tenement district with shops on both sides of street. Road busy with merchandise and sidewalks of these roads, completely packed with pedestrians. A busy market in crowded ghetto. Fruit and vegetable merchants in the market. Sign in background on storefront reads, "Bokschizky & Rotkowitz 252 Pharmacists and Chemists Women buying and bargaining for the merchandise. Children in the market. A public procession passing by on the streets. A large group of marchers carrying a giant American flag together, leads the parade.
United States Presidential elections of 1948. Women and girls feed a donkey, there parodying the democratic party, and they place a poster on it. The poster on donkey reads 'Our next President-Thomas Dewey'. A crowd of women stands near the donkey, at the railway station terminal in Junction City, Kansas. A train arrives and emerges Thomas Dewey, the Republican candidate for U.S. Presidential elections. Women pose the donkey in front of him. He addresses the crowd. Guards control the crowd. Men show placards to Dewey as he finishes his speech and move inside.
Circa-1990 aerial flyover of Disneyland, in Anaheim, California, followed by brief vintage footage of Walt Disney in an office in 1955, introducing Disneyland and showing a giant map of the theme park on his wall. Shots of July 1955 opening ceremony are presented along with shots of the Disneyland 35th anniversary celebration. Ronald Reagan is seen at both events. President Ronald Reagan in 1990 seen congratulating the park on it anniversary. Then a flashback shot to 1955, with Hollywood star actor Ronald Reagan leaning over a balcony of Main Street in Disneyland and talking about the opening celebration. Cutting back to 1990, Roy E. Disney is seen unveiling a plaque at the anniversary celebration. Scene shifts back to 1955, with Walt Disney welcoming visitors to Disneyland during its opening celebration, and a view of a plaque unveiled at the park's opening. In 1990 footage, Roy Disney notes that no one except Walt could have predicted the success of Disneyland. Views of visitors at contemporary Disneyland enjoying a teacup ride and on the Splash Mountain log flume ride, followed by scenes with colored confetti falling at the 35th anniversary celebration.
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