Venezuelan President Perez Jimenez dedicates new buildings in the nation's building program which includes housing projects and South America's largest, most modern hospital. Construction site shows finished buildings during building boom in Venezuela fueled by oil wealth. President Perez and other VIPs at the ceremony. President inaugurates.
Instant Rehabilitation housing renovation project by Housing and Urban Department in the lower east side of Manhattan, New York City, working on a cluster of adjacent old-law tenements on East 5th Street (nos. 633–637) just south of Tompkins Square. Mayor John Lindsay in a ceremony. Construction workers stand on fire escapes and watch the ceremony. A man gives speech. Public gathered to watch the ceremony. Renovated buildings seen.
A film titled 'Skyscrapers of New York City, from the North River'. Views from boat traveling South on the Hudson River toward the ocean. West shoreline and piers of lower Manhattan seen. Large modern ocean liner at pier. Docked boats seen. A tug with a "C" on the stack passes by. Several small steamboats come into view. The Pennsylvania Railroad piers and the Lehigh Valley Railroad piers seen with docked car floats. Several piers seen. Skyscrapers and shoreline seen. Trinity Church visible near Wall Street. Pennsylvania Railroad piers seen with barges docked. United Fruit Company occupies New Pier I. Views of New York City Aquarium and Castle Garden (Battery Park).
A film titled 'Panorama of Blackwell's Island, N.Y.'. Shore of Blackwell's Island seen, from boat . The lighthouse, at extreme Southern end of the island. Smoke from the Island's power plant stacks is visible. Sea wall built by inmates. Insane Asylum, including octagonal Lunatic asylum for women; Large Workhouse. Piers for construction of the Queensboro (59th street) Bridge. The Penetentiary Warden's home nearby; and the Penetentiary, itself. Finally, we see the Charity Hospital.
Relief activities of Quakers, American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) in postwar Germany (after World War 1). A dog helps his owner to pull cart loaded with milk cans, in Dresden, Germany. The Dog, "Sultan" is seen. Point of view (POV) shot from a moving railroad train, looking forward toward other train cars and the locomotive, as it carries AFSC food relief supplies to Southern Saxony Erzebirge village of Heidelberg-Seiffen. Group of thin, undernourished boys and girls walking on road in village where food is being delivered for hungry children. Views of the Village, (described in a slate as the town of Santa Claus due to all the toy makers living there) seen from a moving vehicle driving along a road. A bullock cart moves along the road. Boys run about, excited by the presence of cinematographer in their village. Children watch a toy maker working outside his home in Heidelberg-Seiffen.
Newsreel 'News in brief, Formosa'. Typhoon Ellen caused urban flooding in southern and central Formosa (Taiwan). Taiwanese civilians inspect damage and piles of debris from typhoon. Flooded areas and damaged buildings seen. Relief work and rescue work in progress. Native people seen. Several men wear local Taiwanese hats. Pedicabs seen on street.
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