The Long Island University team tops the Oregon team in a basketball game in New York. A basketball game between the two teams. A player baskets the ball. Both teams basket scores. The score on the board shows both the teams at equal score of 54-54.
Excerpts from the 1940 National Invitation Basketball Tournament Quarterfinal game already underway between Oklahoma Aggies and DePaul at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Numerous scoring scenes are shown in the course of the film, many of them involving long set shots. (Oklahoma won 23 to 22 and advanced to the Semifinals.)
Wounded American soldiers land at La Guardia airport in New York from Europe during World War II. Wounded soldiers lay on stretchers in a plane. Wounded being brought on stretchers and placed in a plane. Plane in flight. Relatives wait at the airport. Wounded being brought to ground. Relatives meet and embrace soldiers.
Girls and boys buy records at a record store in New York. A window display of the music store. Record albums named 'Hot Jazz' and 'On The Town' displayed in the window. The girls and boys look at the records at the shop. The girls play a phonograph and keep time to the rhythm of the music. One boy and girl try dancing the Lindy Hop. A tall man in a suit and hat keeps appearing, carrying records high above the kids, as he moves through the crowded store.
Formal Commissioning Ceremony for USS Saratoga at Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York. 'USS Saratoga (SVA-60)' written with an insignia. Robert Joseph Stroh, Captain of the ship, laughs and poses. Decorated deck of the ship. A sailor sits on a sofa inside a cabin aboard the ship. Many ride the huge elevator up to the flight deck. People seated at the ceremony. Formations of Navy aircraft fly over the ship.
German Zeppelin Hindenburg (D-LZ129) airship in flight over Manhattan Island, New York City. Swastika visible on tail of airship as it flies over Manhattan skyscrapers. Hindenburg Captain Ernst Lehmann and officers seen on bridge. Captain Lehmann speaking on radiophone. Hindenburg releases water ballast and descends to dock. She drops landing lines. Suddenly the Hindenburg crashes and in engulfed in flames. Rescuers run to the burning ship. Heavy dense smoke rises. Firefighters pour water on the burning wreck. Navy officers and ground crews surround the wreck in efforts to help survivors. Commentator calls this the worst disaster in aviation history.
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