Closeup view of a stop light as traffic light turns green. Menu of a restaurant on a window in Manhattan. African American woman wearing a green polka-dot bandana pauses and looks behind her. Pedestrians walk on sidewalk. A woman wearing a similar red bandana walks the opposite direction. African American construction worker having lunch on work site. People walking past storefronts, offices, and shops in Manhattan, New York City. Paper flowers and glazed stoneware on display in a store window. A man on the phone in a shop with sign "Computing Center" overhead. Large computer tape drive machines seen beneath the sign.
Early Edison film entitled "A Street Arab": A boy performs acrobatics on a street in New York City. The boy turns headsprings backward and forward. He walks the crab, does cartwheels and other feats including acrobatic head spins (precursor to modern breakdancing dance moves).
A train ride from Brooklyn to New York via the Brooklyn Bridge. View of the train ride as seen from the moving railroad train. The train crosses the Brooklyn Bridge.
View of community in South Bronx in New York City. The film gives details like the population size and the number of unemployed males. A plane in view. Aerial views of South Bronx New York show children playing on roofs of buildings. Aerial view of woman collecting clothes from clothes line on roof. Aerial view of pigeon coops and pigeons on roof. Boy flying kite from roof. Girl balancing on roof while boy hammers wood on roof. Aerial view of elevated train. Boys play basketball. POV sequence shows views of South Bronx and New York from a moving elevated train moving along Westchester Avenue near E. !56th Street, first through front of train and then through side. Short sequences cut in show boy swinging baseball bat, man smoking, youth choking another from behind.
Wounded soldiers of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) during World War 1 pose dockside before boarding a ship returning to to New Zealand. Soldiers stand beside the ship. They wave. Two New Zealand soldiers wear gas masks and pose. A wounded soldier with a cane stands and shows a German Iron Cross medal he is wearing around his neck (captured from a German soldier).
Demonstration of two new British guided missiles during the Cold War. The first is designed for anti-tank warfare. New British anti-tank missile is fired and its accuracy is proven as it goes through a small opening in a target cloth. Men at the controls. Next is seen a demonstration of Britain's new self-guided Thunderbird Missile, with 4 rocket boosters, used to attack other incoming missiles. Military personnel prepare and fire the missile during a demonstration.
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