Opening scene shows a group of drum majorettes marching in the 1964 Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. Camera views alternate between spectators lining sidewalks and the marchers. Some spectators hold young children up so they can see. Several clowns are seen in bright costumes. A huge balloon float flies overhead, tethered by marchers. A float from the Radio City Music Hall carries several women dressed in white costumes, who wave to the crowd. A huge Donald Duck balloon sails high above the street. A Humpty Dumpty float is seen. Children watch intently from sidelines. An elaborate special car (The Koach,created by Barris Kustom Industries) carries cast members Ed Gwynne (Herman) and Al Lewis (Grandpa) of the Munster family television show. Spectators holding balloons as they watch the parade. The climax of the parade is a huge float carrying Santa Claus past the Macy's flagship store, at 151 West 34th Street, where marching bands line both sides of the street in front of the store entrance, to greet Santa.
Japanese men board a bus. A medical van parked. Japanese women and children disembark from the Red Cross repatriation mercy ship "Gripsholm," and sick helped off the ship which provided safe diplomatic passage for interned civilians under exchange and repatriation agreements. The Gripsholm was of the Swedish American Line, under charter by the U.S. Government.
A girl in Manhattan elementary school paints picture of the tall buildings she is accustomed to in her surroundings. Other children are also seen working on their paintings. One picture shows a policeman directing traffic. Another shows a fire station. A teacher uses their pictures to help the children learn to read. To help them learn counting, the teacher has a girl bounce a ball in front of the class. The children gather together as the teacher reads to them from a book. She has one boy come from the back to sit closer to her. One boy makes a face, showing how a rabbit looks when eating. The other children do it too. (World War II period).
The U.S. Naval torpedo testing range in Montauk, Long Island. Torpedoes on the wings of U.S. Navy PBY Catalina. PBY in flight over the sea. The torpedoes being dropped. Men enter a boat. They hoist a torpedo to the PBY wing.
Invasion of Lae during WWII. Troops board troop transports from the beach. Convoy of landing craft in a line at sea. Smoke on the horizon obscures Lae with faint explosions visible. Troops from the Australian 9th Division massed on the beach as seen from the deck of a troop carrier.
Shows several aviation "firsts" accomplished by U.S. Army Air Service aviators in the period from 1918 through 1924. A close formation of biplanes in flight. President and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson chat with Major Fleet, Officer in charge, on the occasion of the first air mail flight, inaugurated on May 15,1918 between Washington DC and New York.The mail is loaded into the Curtis JN-4 aircraft. Pilot in the cockpit. The aircraft takes off and in flight. Air Service. Mention of aviators helping spot forest fires. Smoke rising from forest fires and mountain ranges. In 1920, U.S. Army Captain St. Clair Streett is seen with some of his Squadron who flew four De Havilland DH-4 aircraft 9,000 miles, from New York City to Nome, Alaska. Two of the men play with pet dogs. Their itinerary is painted on the side of one of the aircraft, along with the names of pilot and mechanic (C.E. Crumline and J.E. Long). In 1923 the first non stop coast-to-coast flight was made in the Fokker T-2 aircraft. . A sign on the aircraft reads 'Army Air Service non stop coast to coast'.First Lieutenants Oakley O.Kelly and John A. Macready board the aircraft, at Roosevelt Field, Long Island, New York, on May 2, 1923. Their Fokker T-2 in flight. Their arrival at Rockwell Field, on Coronado Island (San Diego) California. In 1924, Lt. Russell Maughan is seen boarding his P-1 Hawk airplane at Mitchel Field, on Long Island, New York, and taking off , bound for Crissy Field at the Presidio, San Francisco, California. His goal is the first dawn-to-dusk, coast-to-coast flight. Views of his P-1 Hawk airplane flying over Manhattan, New York City.
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