Entertainment by the Music War Committee in World War II. Men seated around conference table discuss music. Fred Ahlert chairman of the committee ask to Volunteer to sing song, helpful in winning war. Bob Sour raises hand and ask to sing and for help in music. Ray Henderson speaks and plays piano. Sour sings "West of Tomorrow". Listeners clap in reaction. Plaque: Victor Herbert 1859-1924.
New York City celebrates the Armistice ending World War 1. View from above of crowds on 5th avenue, in Manhattan, New York city, gathered at Madison Square, around the Altar of Liberty designed by architect Thomas Hastings, to honor the homecoming troops from the World War. The crowd forms a sea of waving hats, hands, and flags. Scene shifts to George Washington Statue at Federal Hall, Wall Street, which has been draped with American flag and signs reading: "Liberty cannot die." A clergyman stands below the statue and paces back and forth like a cheerleader. Closeup of a bearded Jewish man, wrapped in a Yiddish newspaper announcing the end of the war. He is blowing a horn and has an American flag and a blue and white Jewish flag fastened to his back. Camera pans over young women dressed in costumes as: soldiers, nurses, drum majorettes, the statue of liberty, red cross workers, and Uncle Sam. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Little pocket billiard player Jean Balukas in New York. Jean strikes balls with stick. Her dad stands and watches. She pots balls one by one and finishes the game. Jean stands with cue stick and smiles.
Ringling Brothers Circus Show in Bellevue Hospital, New York. An elephant and a dog perform and work together, the ringmaster with them. Patients watch. Elephant lifts its trunk and stands on stool with its hind legs. Clowns in audience, they walk on wall of ring. Masked clowns. Dwarf clowns perform an act in ring. Audience watches.
The 1963 Belmont Stakes Derby in the New York Aqueduct Racetrack (110-00 Rockaway Blvd, Jamaica, NY 1142) of Queens, New York. Crowd watches. Horses including Chateaugay, Braulio Baeza, Willie Shoemaker, Bonjour, and Candy Spots run in the Kentucky Derby. Audience cheers them. Chateaugay wins the Belmont Stakes and 100,000$ price money. Candy Spots comes second.
The Atlantic Cat Club Competition in New York. Cats in the satin covered basket. Cats including Rosedear, Dresden Cotton Tom, Sir Boss of Khiva and Yum Yum on floor and their reflection on floor. Woman carries a cat on her shoulders, around her neck.
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