Faculty members in discussions at the Brooklyn Technical High School, 28 Fort Greene Place, Brooklyn, New York City. Students (all boys) in Brooklyn Tech's architectural course, building a wood frame house and framing boats. The school print shop where boys learn to hand-set type, operate linotype machines, and run printing presses. A teacher in a science class, where.an oversize slide rule is mounted above the blackboard. A wire model of a molecule sits on a table. Scene shifts to a chemistry laboratory, where a student shakes liquid in an Erlenmeyer flask and places it on a Bunsen burner. Other students are using microscopes. A student holds a live frog. A teacher in a lab coat enters the room with several students. Several glass tanks and cages are seen holding live specimens. Next are shown boys and girls at work on sketches and sculpture in the New York City High School of Music and Art. Scene shifts away from specialized schools, to a library in a regular New York High School, where well worn edition of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy (Divina Commedia) is shown open. Teacher is shown in a typical classroom where arts and literature are being taught along with other topics in a balanced four-year curriculum.
The city of New Orleans in the United States. View of levees and homes. Rowboats in the New Basin Canal (the first canal in the city, running between Lake Pontchartrain and uptown New Orleans). Construction workers seen building the Industrial Canal between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain. A crane picks up beams, scaffolding and shoring on the side of an excavation. Boats at a dock. A sign reads 'Bienville Street landing'.
New York Governor Charles Seymour Whitman speaks to the Liberty Bond subscribers at Wall Street in New York during World War I. The subscribers of the Liberty Bond crowd in Wall Street. New York Governor Charles Seymour Whitman speaks to the subscribers. Other officials on a platform speak to the subscribers. The school children parade holding posters and U.S. flags. The poster reads 'Lend'. People on either side of the street view the parade. Alpine French soldiers getting ready to join the Liberty Loan campaign. The soldiers stand holding guns. An officer briefs the soldiers. The soldiers stand at attention.
The flooded areas after the Smith Paper Company dam has been opened in Manchester, New Hampshire. A bridge over the Merrimack River The top of a house floating under the bridge. A power plant surrounded by water. Two U.S. Army Air Corps Martin B-10s flying over New Hemisphere River and mountains. The crew aboard B-10. The B-10 dropping relief bundles to stranded flood refugees in New Hampshire.
The U.S. Olympic Figure Skating Team show their skating skills at Rockefeller Center in Manhattan, New York City. Olympic pair skaters, Yvonne Sherman and Robert Swenning, of the New York Figure Skating Club, demonstrate a pair lift and side-by-side spirals. Spectators watch them performing. Richard Button of the Philadelphia Skating Club and Humane Society performs 2 axels, and a flying camel spin into a back sit spin, changing into a forward scratch spin. (These are shown in slow motion to better show his movements.) New Yorker Eileen Seigh performs 4 split jumps, 3 axels and a forward sit spin into a final scratch spin. (Note: Eileen and Dick trained with Gus Lussi in Lake Placid. The pairs team, Yvonne Sherman and Robert Swenning were pupils of Pierre Brunet, a former French National champion, who , with his wife Andree, were World pair champions ).
Arrival of displaced persons and refugees of World War 2 in New York, after the war. Men, women, and children arriving at New York City on May 20, 1946 after a voyage that departed Bremerhaven Germany on May 11, 1946. People greet relatives at the dock in New York. Two young men and a girl stand together and show the concentration camp tattoos on their arms. The tattoo numbers are A9496 on the young man with the hat, A13889 on the girl, and B3073 on the young man without a hat. The young man with tattoo B3073 is Berel Gola (later called Bernard Gola) a 20 year old Jewish man from Poland. He had been imprisoned by the Nazis at Treblinka and at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp, where he received the tattoo. A woman and a man holding a young girl stand. Women holding children stand by. A man holding a young child. People debarking from the ship. People crowd at the dock. They meet their relatives. People stand behind a fence. A woman greets her relative. An emotional woman cries when reunited with relatives.
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