A construction site in New York City, United States. Men drill holes in a frame with the help of a drilling machine. Buildings in the background. Men at work on the construction site. A steel frame is hoisted by a crane. A man directs the movement of the frame. Concrete mix in a mixer. The mixture is passed over a conveyor belt. Cars on a street. The concrete is spread on the frame. Men work and level the mixture.
'Know Your Ally: Britain' - An Allied propaganda film to solidify Anglo-American solidarity within the ranks as well as to counter Nazi German propaganda aimed at weakening the alliance during World War II. Scenes in the United States of a college football game as a player makes a touchdown and a crowd erupts in loud cheering. Football team at blocking and tackling practice on a practice field. A World War 2 tank fires. British and American soldiers fire artillery and infantry forces running on a battlefield. Explosions occur and smoke rises. Views of soldiers of China, Russia, Britain and the United States. Allied troops march. Idaho, United States and Britain on a map showing population. Vehicular traffic and pedestrians on a road including cars and double-decker buses and pedestrians showing congested space in Britain. People talk to their neighbors. British policemen seen. British citizens emerge from underground transit system. Groups of British men, women and children in crowds are seen. Image of British Bobby police officer with hand up and narrator relates that British police do not carry a gun. Newspaper headlines about a strike, a catastrophe in Britain. Animated map of the Great Britain shows that it is surrounded by sea. Ships at sea. An old man and a boy sitting on a stoop with a model of a tall masted sailing ship. Brief views of cities in different parts of the world, including Sydney Australia; an unidentified South African port; an aerial view of the city of Wellington, New Zealand; parliament and government buildings in Ottawa, Canada; a large passenger ferry boat passing by with the skyscrapers of Manhattan New York City in the background.
Elevated views and busy street views of automobile and pedestrian traffic on streets of New York City in the late 1930s. A streetcar stopped in the street. A roadside news stand. Men in suits and women in dresses walking on sidewalks near office buildings and stores in New York City. Children of late primary school or middle school age walking to school. Children exiting a school bus to go to school Two boys wrestle as a group of boys gathers around and encourages them. Girls play a game like "London Bridge is falling down." Scene changes to a farm field with a farmer plowing a field with his tractor. A farmer cuts crops with a sickle. Brief view of the main street in a small town somewhere in the United States, likely east. Scene changes again to a neighborhood with nice homes and two girls play skipping rope at a house. A woman prepares toast in a electric toaster. Vegetables and food items seen on shelves of an open refrigerator in a home. Scene changes to dense urban tenements and scenes of relative poverty in New York City. Elevated view looking out over dense tenements and apartment homes. Two young women sit on sleeping cots on a rooftop 1930s cars parked on a narrow street among crowded city dwellings, and and people sit outside their houses. Kids playing "stoop ball" throwing a ball against steps of their dwelling on the lower east side of Manhattan. A movie promotion poster advertises "Yellow Jack" playing at the Loews Commodore Theatre . Children play.
The funeral ceremony of former New York City Mayor John Mitchel in New York City. The funeral procession on 5th Avenue, Manhattan, New York City shows United States Army soldiers and Navy sailors marching along the avenue and passing under triumphal arch of Washington Square (Washington Square, New York, NY 10012). A horse-drawn caisson followed by Theodore Roosevelt and other funeral participants along the avenue. A crowd lined up on sidewalks. Access to the street is blocked by parked street cars.
Aerial shot of New York's St. Patrick’s Cathedral (5th Ave, New York, NY 10022, United States) and cars driving on 5th Avenue in New York City. Lincoln- Mercury Coupe car displayed in new car showroom. Model displays features of new car including arm rest in back seat, large trunk, and electric windows. Front and back of car is displayed. Advertisement for Lincoln Mercury automobile.
The joint city state federal private project on rehabilitation at Manhattan, New York. Demolition crews at work during the rehabilitation program at a cluster of adjacent old-law tenements on East 5th Street (nos. 633–637) just south of Tompkins Square. They take out floors, walls, and windows of a run down building in the lower east side. The prefabricated ("prefab") kitchens and baths are lowered through the roof. Sign describes the project as "Instant Rehab. A demonstration of rapid rehabilitation." Former residents of the building are seen in front of the apartment building. Narrator says 11 families had lived in the tenement, and 15 apartments now are ready for their return. Group of officials including New York Mayor John Lindsay stand near the project. Keys of the new apartment building units are seen hung on a board. A woman enters one of the new apartments and opens a cabinet in the new kitchen.
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