Large crowd gathers to celebrate the New Year, 1937, in Times Square, New York City, United States. People shouting and blowing horns. Neon signs advertise products such as "Coca-Cola." The Criterion movie theater (cinema) advertises a movie called "Great Guy" starring James Cagney. Loews State movie theater marquee announces the film "Love on the Run" starring Joan Crawford and Clark Gable.
French President of Council of Ministers of the Third French Republic Pierre Laval arrives in New York. French ocean liner SS Ile de France underway at sea. Pierre Laval disembarks from SS Ile de France with his daughter Mlle Josette. Laval is greeted by representatives of U.S. State Department, city officials and French Ambassador to the United States Paul Claudel. A tug sprays water in New York Harbor. The party boards the tug Macom and is landed at the battery and escorted up lower Broadway to City Hall where Mayor Jimmy Walker welcomes the diplomats on behalf of the metropolis.
A Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly underway. The Ambassador from the United States,Warren Austin, addressing the conference. The issue of the Israel-Palestine conflict is the matter under consideration. Austin speaks of the actions for the Security council to take to resolve the conflict, in light of the failure of the Jewish and Arab contingents in Palestine to resolve a partition peacefully.
Ceremonies to mark the 173rd anniversary of United States Marine Corps in North Carolina. 2nd Marine Division passes in inspection of Commandant of Marine Force General Clifton B. Cates. Tanks being driven as units march on field. Marines land on enemy beachheads during World War II. Smoke rises due to artillery fire on beach. Aircraft on flight line at an airfield. Aircraft and helicopters in flight.
The activities and joint demonstrations by the United States Readiness Command (USREDCOM), Brass Key II at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. Officers and guests gather in a large number to watch the demonstration. Fire power demonstration by the U.S. Army units. Several infantry weapons being fired and demonstrated. Soldiers fire rifles. They fire M-60 machine guns. Closeup view of belt-fed machine gun in operation. View of M-79 grenade launcher being fired. A simultaneous platoon fire being demonstrated. Anti tank weapons and flame thrower weapons being demonstrated. Gunners advance on the area under a smoke cover. Recoil-less rifle fired. M551 "Sheridan" AR/AAV light tank closeup views and it fires a guided MGM-51 Shillelagh missile. Point of view shot looking through main gun system of M551 tank at target before it fires a conventional 152mm shell. Soldier firing a shoulder-fired, infrared Redeye anti-aircraft missile. Beehive round being fired from 105 mm howitzer at a long string of balloon targets. Smoke arises due firing.
The activities and joint demonstrations by the United States Readiness Command (USREDCOM), Brass Key II at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. People gather in a large number to watch the demonstration. Fire power demonstration by the Air Force units. A U.S. Air Force McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II airplane in flight. Plane fires a television-guided AGN-65 Maverick missile at a target. Officers and guests watch the aircraft demonstrations through binoculars from a reviewing stand. Smoke from explosion on the target area. Demonstration of gunship operations. U.S. Air Force Lockheed AC-130 aircraft in flight. The AC-130 Gunship firing its 20mm cannons its 40mm cannons, and its 105mm howitzer. U.S. Air Force A-7 Corsair II airplanes in flight. Mark 82 low drag 500 pound Laser guided bombs being dropped from the airplanes. Smoke arising from an explosion. McDonnell RF-4C reconnaissance aircraft approaching in sky overhead, and delivering, via small parachute packages, its aerial photographs taken that day.
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