Scenes of New York City night clubs, during the "Roaring 20's," beginning with the relatively sedate Versailles Club, on 50th Street, where Rudy Vallee and his musical group play for patrons dancing. Rudy Vallee is seen playing the saxophone. He was so popular, the club was renamed 'Villa Vallee'. Wealthy businessmen gathered at the night club. The views then shift rapidly, in a montage of scenes showing party goers, flappers, and increasingly wilder antics in night club and speakeasy locations throughout New York City. Champagne bottle being opened. (This was illegal. National prohibition was still in force.) A singer performs. A man smoking a cigar. An artist plays his trumpet. A band of musicians perform. A couple waves their hands at the performance. A girl artist performs a dance. A scantily clad girl comes from behind stage curtains and performs in a burlesque show. Girls perform dance in a follies type act and balloons thrown up in the air. Fast montage of wild partying and raucous behavior with streamers and balloons flying.
"City Pastorale" shows citizens of New York City hurrying about their business during workday on a street in New York City. Vehicular traffic and pedestrians. People riding on the subway. Views of workaday foot traffic along New York sidewalk in midtown Manhattan. Macy's department store. Racks of clothes being wheeled along the streets and sidewalks. Scenes of New Yorkers in hectic activity. In contrast, are shown peaceful scenic views of New York City. Penthouse gardens. Clothes drying on a rooftop line. People entering a number of different churches in Manhattan, New York. A woman in a garden. A man and a boy sit and read newspapers in the garden. The young boy looks at the "funny papers" (comic strips). A man walks with a child on a sidewalk. Cars parked. People chatting on the sidewalk of a New York city street. The Chrysler Building and nearby skyscrapers. People taking pictures with handheld cameras at a playground. Families with babies. Children playing in a park. Quiet streets. Car drives beneath an elevated train. Men walk on a ramp. People relax on beaches. Older women gathered together on the beach talking, while boys play in the sand at the edge of the surf. A huge crowd seated in a baseball stadium and watching a game between the New York Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers, including a shot of Giants pitcher, #36 ( Mickey McGowan ?), throwing from the mound and, in another scene, Giants #23 (Clint Hartung ?) batting and striking out. Views of the fans watching the baseball game, including some men in suits and boys sitting together in the bleachers watching the game and eating ice cream on a stick. Visitors stroll through the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd's Antarctic Expedition. Two cameramen (Willard Van der Veer and Joseph T. Rucker) accompany Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd and his team on the expedition. USS Leviathan escorts sailing vessel 'City Of New York' from the New York harbor. Smoke rises up from the smokestack. U.S. Navy Admiral Richard Evelyn and his team gather around a table aboard the vessel. A dog barks aboard the ship. High waves rise at the sea. The supply ship 'Eleanor Bolling' underway at sea. A dog sleeps aboard the ship. Iceberg and ice pack in the ocean. Ice barrier 'Ross Barrier'. Men aboard the vessel observe the ice barrier through binoculars. A control meter. The ship being anchored. The men and dogs walk on the ice.
Aviator Charles Lindbergh being acclaimed in Washington D.C., United States upon his return to the United States, following his historic solo transatlantic aircraft flight from New York to Paris. Charles Lindbergh disembarks from the U.S. Navy Cruiser, USS Memphis (CL-13). Avenue, Washington D.C. Lindbergh and his mother, in an open car, with military escort. Their car is surrounded by newsmen and photographers, and guarded by several U.S. Army soldiers. View of Pennsylvania Avenue looking towards the Capitol. A military color guard marches across the avenue. Spectators line the sidewalks. The Lindbergh car moves along Pennsylvania Avenue. Sign on building reads: "Colonial Ice Cream." Mounted cavalry follow the car. View from above of a huge crowd in an open area. Scenes from Lindbergh's arrival in New York City, on June 13, 1927. He rides in an open car, from the Battery, in downtown, Manhattan, escorted by mounted policemen. People rush all around his car and ticker tape and confetti fill the air in a ticker tape parade.
German dirigible Graf Zeppelin during its flight over New York, United States. Graf Zeppelin written on the nose seen during its flight. The cabin windows. Low winged single engine airplanes escort the dirigible. It sails over the Statue of Liberty. Crowd on streets and house tops wave greetings to the dirigible sailing overhead. Graf Zeppelin sails over New York buildings and the Manhattan bridge,
A map of United States of America. Greyhound passenger bus pasing through toll booth on highway between Boston and New York. Tourist bus arrives in New York, USA. View of tourists inside the bus. Buildings in New York City. View of the Statue of Liberty from a boat. Heavy traffic outside the New York Public Library. Tourist couples travels on busy streets sitting in open top level of a double decker bus. View of the Empire State building and Will's building. Tourist couple enjoys view of the city from rooftop of Empire State Building. A telescope on the rooftop. Wide, sweeping, elevated views of skyscrapers and buildings of Manhattan, New York City, as seen from atop the Empire State Building in the early 1940s.
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