Bar association meeting at the office of War department special service division music section, at 42 west, 44th street, in New York. Dignitaries in meeting include the Music Sub Committee of Joint Army and Navy Recreational Activities Committee. Left to right Chief Petty Officer Richard Stabile, Chief Band Master In Charge of music, 3rd Naval District; Lieutenant Marie E Larson, Special Service Division, music section; Colonel David S Barry, Officer in charge, Special Service Division, U.S. marine corps; Harry Fox; Lieutenant Colonel Howard C Bronson, Officer in charge of music; Captain Harry Salters, Music Section, Special Services Division, War Department; Colonel J Burt Webster, Chief Chaplains Branch , 2nd Service Command, Colonel Bronson and Commander Sharpe. Dignitaries discuss, they see the pamphlet and exchange papers. They listen and look talk to each other. (World War II period)
V disc records and albums displayed in New York. Albums of 'Musical America', 'Down Beat' etc. Albums and records displayed. Record No 93 Album and records display of Down Beat etc. Paper headline as 'Keyser, Others to Gives Records' etc. Albums displayed.
Entertainment by the Music War Committee in World War II. Men seated around conference table discuss music. Fred Ahlert chairman of the committee ask to Volunteer to sing song, helpful in winning war. Bob Sour raises hand and ask to sing and for help in music. Ray Henderson speaks and plays piano. Sour sings "West of Tomorrow". Listeners clap in reaction. Plaque: Victor Herbert 1859-1924.
New York City celebrates the Armistice ending World War 1. View from above of crowds on 5th avenue, in Manhattan, New York city, gathered at Madison Square, around the Altar of Liberty designed by architect Thomas Hastings, to honor the homecoming troops from the World War. The crowd forms a sea of waving hats, hands, and flags. Scene shifts to George Washington Statue at Federal Hall, Wall Street, which has been draped with American flag and signs reading: "Liberty cannot die." A clergyman stands below the statue and paces back and forth like a cheerleader. Closeup of a bearded Jewish man, wrapped in a Yiddish newspaper announcing the end of the war. He is blowing a horn and has an American flag and a blue and white Jewish flag fastened to his back. Camera pans over young women dressed in costumes as: soldiers, nurses, drum majorettes, the statue of liberty, red cross workers, and Uncle Sam. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Little pocket billiard player Jean Balukas in New York. Jean strikes balls with stick. Her dad stands and watches. She pots balls one by one and finishes the game. Jean stands with cue stick and smiles.
Ringling Brothers Circus Show in Bellevue Hospital, New York. An elephant and a dog perform and work together, the ringmaster with them. Patients watch. Elephant lifts its trunk and stands on stool with its hind legs. Clowns in audience, they walk on wall of ring. Masked clowns. Dwarf clowns perform an act in ring. Audience watches.
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