Views of Manhattan, Brooklyn and other areas of New York City. Tourists in a sight seeing boat in the Hudson river. Buildings and skyline of Manhattan as seen from the boat. A factory with cranes and hoists. Tourist boats in Hudson River pass under the Hell Gate Bridge. Tourists standing on the deck looking at the bridge and building. Crew members of the tourist boat.
Views of Manhattan, Brooklyn and other areas of New York City. Tourists in a sight seeing boat in the Hudson River. Buildings and houses along side the banks of the river. Successive bridges built on the river. Broad course of flow of the river. Wooded and steeply rising banks of the river.
Seventieth birth day of the Statue of Liberty marked by ceremonies in New York. An assembly of twelve hundred immigrants at the Liberty Island to celebrate the birthday of the Statue of Liberty. Interior Secretory Fred Seaton addresses the crowd. Candles lit on a cake. A plaque is unveiled proclaiming the name of the site changed from Bedloes Island to Liberty Island.
Lighting on the buildings, shops and streets of Manhattan. Montage mixes Times Square lights with scenes of people dancing, enjoying music in clubs. Door man hails taxi for couple at night. A musician puts his trombone into its case. The lights turn out exterior of apartment building. A police man twirls his night stick as he "walks the beat" at night. Lighted 'Port Authority of New York' sign. Trucks come off of ferry at night in New York City. Workers from country towns load fruits and vegetables in a truck. Truck carries milk cans before dawn. A milk tanker pulls up to dairy at night. An Esso fuel tanker truck pumping gasoline into gas station tanks at night. Bread is loaded into a bread truck at night. Flowers removed from green house loaded into truck at night. Commodities of daily requirement like newspaper, bread, building material transported by trucks in midnight. New cars transported on a car carrier truck at night. Man shoveling sand from dump truck at night.
Pilots General Francesco de Pinedo and James Mattern make last minute tests on their planes, at the Floyd Bennett Field, in New York, before their non stop flight attempt across the Atlantic, the Italian with Persia. Pilots sit in cockpit of their planes and take off for test flights before setting off for new 'round the world record' of 6200 miles. Insignia of an eagle on the nose and fuselage of a plane.
Aviator Douglas Corrigan at Floyd Bennett Air Field in Brooklyn, New York completes his transcontinental flight from Floyd Bennett Air Field to Ireland. Motorcade of Corrigan arrives as crowd watches. He stands on a stage and gets honored. At Camp Smith New York he shakes hand with U.S. Military officers and reviews as contingents of New York's Fighting Irish Regiment march. His plane which flew him during the historic flight arrives back to New York in a ship. A carrier drags the plane out of the dock.
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