A film titled 'Life in Harlem' about life of the African American people of Harlem in New York. Buildings in Harlem. A horse drawn carriage on road. People near their houses. A man pulls a loaded push cart. A boy comes out of a house for his work as a shoe shine boy. Policemen move out of a police headquarters building for their duty in the streets. A sweeper works on a subway. African American man wearing suit and hat eats a sandwich. A crowded sidewalk with pedestrians and a news stand. An address sign for West 145 Edgecombe Avenue. An apartment building. Views of more wealthy areas of Harlem and Schubert Hills. Women come out of a building. Awning for the Park Lincoln building with street address 309. A woman in elaborate fancy dress and hat walks under awning and enters a waiting car as a doorman holds open the door of the taxi cab for her. Two young women bicycle on road. People shopping at open air food market with vendors and push carts on upper 8th Avenue. A man reads newspaper as he sits and has his shoes shined by a shoe shine man. People at door ways of houses.
African American people of Harlem in New York City during the Great Depression. An African American man sits with two children on a bench. Women sit on a bench with a child in pram. A man reads a book. A sign reads 'W 110 Lenox Ave'. Buildings on Lenox avenue. Traffic of automobiles, trucks, and pedestrians on Lenox Avenue as seen from a moving vehicle. Cars parked alongside road. Men sit outside a building. One of the African American men has crutches. View of Father Divine's Peace Mission building, followed by a view of Father Divine (Reverend M. J. Divine or Reverend Major Jealous Divine) addressing his followers while seated at a luncheon event. Shops on street that follow Father Divine's movement including a Peace Shine shoe shine business, the Peace Tailor, and the Peace and Prosperity Barber Shop.
A film about life of the African American people of Harlem in New York City during the Great Depression. A band plays in a parade. African American residents of Harlem walk in parade on Lenox Avenue. Aerial view of the parade. People watch parade from terrace of a building. A traffic policeman at work directing traffic on 7th Street. Automobile traffic and buildings on Seventh Street. People walking by touch the stump of a good luck elm tree known as the "Tree of Hope", located on Seventh Avenue (later renamed Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd.), between 131st Street and 132nd Street in New York City. The tree was cut down in 1934 with expansion work on Seventh Avenue (also called the "Boulevard of Dreams"). People wait to cross road. Elevated views of office and business buildings on 125th street. A crowded and busy sidewalk of pedestrians on 125th street. Government housing development on banks of Harlem river for a restricted lower income group.
A refugee camp at the Czech-German border in Europe, around time of German occupation of Sudetenland. Refugee people including many Jewish refugees in front of tents at the refugee camp where they have fled from violence in Germany. Tent houses in a line. A man stands near a bicycle. A woman comes out of a tent house. Women talk in front of the tents. Tables and other articles kept on the ground. A bed outside a tent house. The women talk. Close up views of faces of some of the women refugees. Vegetation in the foreground. Newspaper headlines about Nazi violence against jews in Germany including Kristallnacht events.
Officials discuss in Czechoslovakia. A traffic policeman directs pedestrian traffic. Minister of Defense Frantisek Machnik talks over a telephone and works at a desk. He keeps down the telephone and continues to write on a document. He keeps papers on a table. Czechoslovak General Jan Syrovy enters a hall. Both men enter another hall. Major General Ludvik Krejci and Jan Syrovy discuss a map.
Officials discuss amongst themselves in Czechoslovakia. Czechoslovak General Jan Syrovy and Major General Ludvik Krejci enter hall. Officers discuss standing outside a building. Exteriors of Ministry of War. Exterior of Sudetan-Deutche headquarters. Exterior of House of Parliament with street traffic.