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.
Cuban President Osvaldo Dorticos addresses United Nations assembly. Name Plate of Cuba on table. Cuban President sits and speak from his place. Papers lay on table.
Cuban President Osvaldo Dorticos addresses United Nations meeting. He asks U.S. Ambassador Stevenson the political, moral and legal grounds of U.S. charter. He states the aggressive acts of U.S. on small states of Cuba and that U.S. has no positive ideas.
Armistice celebrations in New York City. Large smiling and jubilant crowd gathers on roads and sidewalks. Ticker tape and ribbons float in air down from skyscrapers and buildings. Cars and trucks on the road. The Flag of United States on a building. Happy, cheering, raucous crowd. Men in crowd tip their hats. Clock on road shows time as 35 minutes past 2. Cars on road. People stand beside roads and cheer.
The "Human Liberty Bell" composed from 25,000 Officers and men at Fort Dix, New Jersey during World War 1, by photographers Arthur Mole and John Thomas who took them from an 80 foot tower with a large format camera. The U.S. Government contracted Mole and Thomas to create a number of such photographs as a morale booster during world war 1. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
A pier made of bales of natural rubber on fire in Staten Island, United States. Flames of fire rise. Firefighters arrive on site. Firemen hamper water pressure to blow fire. Cloud of smoke arises from pier. A ship splashes water over fire. A helicopter in flight. Aerial view of burning pier.
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