Views of Midtown Manhattan, in New York City, United States. A policeman standing in the middle of street, controlling traffic. Cars on road, people walking. People crossing at corners. Signs and entrances are seen at 34th Street Herald Square for Macy's Department Store and the Horn & Hardart Automat. Two sidewalk musicians playing saxophone and guitar. A tin cup hangs from the guitar neck into which pedestrians can put money. Man pushing a trolley containing hanging clothes, other men walk around it. Man in robe standing next to a dark flag, gathering signatures on some sort of petition. Women's fashions displayed in store window.
People pushing a flight to the track as the 10th Annual Soaring Contest gets underway in Elmira, New York. The motorless flight takes off. Flights tied with wire. Two flights flying in the sky. United States flag waves and a flight passing by.
Clip shows a merchant ship at dock in New York. It is idle, awaiting resolution from United States legislators, as the U.S. Senate filibusters President Wilson's call to arm merchant ships (against the U-boat threat from Germany in World War I, before America entered the war).
In New York Harbor, the United States passenger ship SS Manchuria (later the World War 1 troop transport ship USS Manchuria, ID-1633) being loaded with cargo including armament (artillery gun is partially seen). Crew members on the ship loading items from a smaller vessel. Smoke rises from the smokestack of a passenger steam ship as it passes the Statue of Liberty.
Crowd including United States Civil War and Spanish-American War veterans in uniform watch troops march on streets in New York. Large crowd gathers. U.S. flag at a building. Civil War veterans in uniform stand on side and cheer the troops. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Arthur Godfrey sits in Buick Wildcat being displayed at General Motor's Motorama at Hotel Waldorf Astoria in New York,United States. General Motors officials look on. Officials open the car's hood as they explain the design and parts.
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