Three thousand men walk and demonstrate outside the New York Shipbuilding company plant during a labor strike in Camden, New Jersey. Next scene shows a different group of striking workers as a dispute between police officers and strikers marks labor difficulties at the Worsted Mill in Cleveland, as police on horseback push back group of striking workers. Unrest in streets and workers running in streets. View of smokestacks of industrial factory with smoke coming out. Men entering factory and standing in line to punch their time cards at the start of a a work shift. Men at work inside automobile plants, assembling cars in Detroit, after U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt settled the dispute between laborers and manufactures in the motor industry.
Fashions in New York for overweight girls. New styles for overweight youngsters are shown. Girls aged 7 to 15 display specially designed and proportioned clothing for heavier weight girls. Plus size girls wearing designed, attractive and inexpensive dresses. The girls gather at the "No Calorie Bar" of the "Lane Bryant Chubby Shop" and drink beverages prepared by a boy working behind the counter.
New Year's celebration in Times Square, New York City, as 1937 begins. Neon signs dominate the scene. Examples read: "Planters Peanuts", "Coca-Cola", Camel Cigarettes, and others. The Criterion movie theater marquee reads: "Cagney." The Hotel Astor is seen. Celebrating crowd is shadowed, except for brief glimpse. Lighted advertisements for Chevrolet automobiles stream across the Times building. The advertisements are interrupted by a message reading: " The time is now 12:02."
Large crowd gathers to celebrate the New Year (1937) in Times Square, New York City. Illuminated signs on buildings. Many neon signs advertise products, such as 'Planters Peanuts and 'Coca-Cola' . Two large klieg lights illuminate the crowd for the camera.
U.S. troop transports bring soldiers to New York after World War II. The troop transports escorted by destroyers and navy blimps head for New York Harbor. U.S. troops aboard the transport ship.
The Rex parade during Mardi Gras in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. The parade shows various floats and a crowd marching through the narrow streets of New Orleans. Krewe participants from floats throw trinkets to spectators. Spectators catch Mardi Gras throws from passing floats. A crowd of tourists and floats move ahead. King Rex waving his scepter from his grand float.
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