Film 'The city of David' depicts notable landmarks and people in Jerusalem, Palestine. Film begins showing the Islamic shrine, the Dome of the Rock on Temple Mount (Qubbat al-Sakhra in Arabic or Kippat ha-Sela in Hebrew) in Jerusalem, Palestine. Film focuses on the city walls and some of its gates. Palestinians are seen walking near the Damascus gate. The Citadel (Tower of David) atop the walls. Visitors in Western clothes are seen entering through the wide Jaffa Gate (Omar Ibn Katab, Jerusalem). Local people enter and leave through another gate to David Street. Scene shifts to narrow walkways filled with shops and pedestrians, within sight of city Wall in the background. Camera pans down from rooftop to the narrow lane of shops and pedestrians
Leon Trotsky, seated in an easy chair in a library, reading from notes, describes the relative ascendancy of the United States and Colonial powers, vis-a-vis Europe, which he sees in decline. He says: "Europe, in general, has ceased to be the center of the world. It is foolish to hope that Europe, as it is, will again occupy that position. The present terrific crisis, in spite of its devastating effects on the United States, will change the relation of forces still farther, not in favor of Europe, but in favor of the United States and the colonial countries."
The Republican National Convention, meeting in the Chicago Stadium, Chicago, Illinois, renominates President Herbert Hoover and Vice President Charles Curtis as their standard bearers in the next election. Flag-waving delegates celebrate. Hoover prepares to address the convention. Posters of President Hoover and Vice President Curtis are displayed prominently by the speaker's podium.
Germans streaming into the first Berlin Olympic Stadium or Deutsches Stadion (Deutsches Stadion, Olympischer Platz 3, 14053 Berlin) in Westend to attend a Nazi party rally. A Sturmabteilung (SA) band performs a concert. The band marches and plays. SA athletes display their prowess, running in formation around the stadium track; performing synchronized calisthenics; and running to form a giant swastika in the field. The rally continues into the night, with torchlight activities watched by Adolf Hitler, Joseph Goebbels, and Hermann Goering, from a balcony.
View of crowd of 200,000 supporters during Franklin Roosevelt’s presidential campaign in Newark, New Jersey, during the Great Depression. Crowds clapping as former New York Governor, Al Smith, endorses Franklin Roosevelt. “The best way to bring back prosperity, the election of Roosevelt, Garner and the entire Democratic ticket!” Smith concludes his endorsement to the roaring cheer of the crowd.
Train carrying New York Governor and Presidential candidate Franklin Roosevelt (FDR). Boston citizens gather to see Franklin Roosevelt. Sign saying “Our Next President Franklin Roosevelt”. Supporters wave American flags during Franklin Roosevelt’s speech onstage. New York citizens wait in line to vote outside polling station. Former New York Governor, Al Smith, and his wife, Catherine Ann Dunn, walk together to their polling station. Al Smith is seen wearing his famous “brown derby”. View of Franklin Roosevelt waiting for election returns. Crowd in Times Square waiting for election updates. Police patrols the crowd. People cheer all over New York City when Franklin Roosevelt wins the election. Franklin Roosevelt smiles. Franklin Roosevelt swims in pool to relax after election victory.