St Valentine's fancy runs to specially designed nosegays, clusters and neck less of dainty blossoms for Milady's wardrobe at a hotel New Yorker fashion show in New York. Models seated in room wearing accessories made by flowers. Model seated with flower bouquet. Models wear flower heart on their sleeves, shoes, hair, neck. Models smoke cigarette. Model seated wearing flower necklace.
Exteriors of a new Army Post Office in New York City. Railroad train arriving at post office station. Mail bags are unloaded from the train. Thousands of Postal mail bags filled with Christmas packages, parcels, and letters are seen stacked inside the post office. Mails being sorted inside the post office. Packages and letters on a moving conveyor belt. Bags being moved by multi-car trolleys. Troops' mails being unloaded from a truck at the war front. Packages and letters being handed out to U.S. soldiers in World War II. Soldiers standing by a Christmas tree and receiving mail. A soldiers patrols on guard duty in front of a Christmas tree.
A widowed female hippopotamus gets a new partner at a zoo in New York. A hippopotamus plays in water at the zoo. Zookeeper feeds a group of hippopotamuses. A hippopotamus chewing. Two heavy-weight hippopotamuses move around in the cage. Rosa and Caliph the hippopotamuses face each other with bars separating them. Animated hearts surround the two hippos. Spectators watch the animals in the background. A hippopotamus comes close to the camera.
Film with highlights from game one of baseball's 1937 World Series between the New York Yankees and New York Giants. Shots of 60,000+ spectators attending the game at Yankee Stadium. In fifth inning, #23 Jimmy Ripple of the Giants singles. #6 Johnny McCarthy singles, sending Ripple to third. Yankees pitcher Lefty Gomez gets the Giants' Burgess Whitehead to hit into a double play but Ripple scores, giving Giants 1-0 lead. Shot of crowd standing. Yankee player hits single. Giants' pitcher Carl Hubbell winds up and throws. The Yankees' Joe DiMaggio slashes hit to center field with bases loaded; two runs score and DiMaggio slides safely into second. Former heavyweight boxing champion Jack Dempsey watches the game through mesh fence. Yankee hitter Bill Dickey takes a ball. Dickey hits a single, scoring a run and moving up other runners. Yankees' George Selkirk hits single, scoring two more runs. #10 Harry Gumbert now pitching for Giants. Ground ball by Tony Lazzeri scores another run for Yankees. Gumbert walks Red Rolfe with the bases loaded, giving the Yanks their seventh run of the inning. Giants finally get last out of the inning, walk off field. In eighth inning, Lazzeri comes to bat against Giants pitcher Al Smith. Lazzeri hits home run, trots around bases, shakes hand of batboy at home plate. Final score is 8-1 Yankees. Fans walk onto field at end of the game.
The Pulitzer Trophy Race at Mitchel Field in New York. A Curtiss R3C-1 in flight over Mitchel Field. The R3C-1 taxiing after landing. The number 43 painted on its fuselage. U.S. Army Lieutenant Cyrus Bettis in the cockpit of the R3C-1 after it stops. He climbs up and stands in the cockpit. Army airmen stand around him. Lieutenant Bettis sets a new record of 249 miles per hour.
Military recruitment and draft: Young men registering and answering questions at Flushing High School and Haaren High School in New York. Clerks filling out draft papers and issuing cards. Card being held by registrant. Men entering and leaving the High School. Sign above doorway "Registration for the Draft". One man pauses at a doorway to look at his new card.
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