Newsreel quote saying, “Lusty and glamorous was the Theater of Yesterday, when every actor worth his salt was a hardened trouper”. Dramatization of a late 19th century vaudeville group disembark from a train. Train porters unload a huge luggage. A 1894 poster of Bessie Bonehill, an English vaudeville singer who toured widely in the United States, saying, “Bessie Bonehill: And they never came back Playmates”. Actors sitting together near a ticketing booth in a New York train station. Close up view of an elderly vaudeville actor. Vaudeville actors talking with each other. “Haines & Vidocqs Metropolitan stars!!”. Curtains rise inside a theater. Poster of vaudeville stars, Jimmy and Florence Plunket, saying, “The Plunkets Jimmy Florence Broadway to you”. Vaudeville stars Jimmy and Florence Plunket, the former wears a top hat and the latter in a sequined A-line dress, perform a tap dance onstage.
View of dock with yacht in a New England coastal town. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, on vacation from presidential campaign, waves at his supporters as he sits in the boat with his sons, probably James Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., and Elliott Roosevelt. Nautical flag, likely means “2”, is hoisted up the yacht before it sails. Franklin D. Roosevelt, wearing white fisherman’s hat, smiles and waves at supporters before he sails. Franklin D. Roosevelt waves to supporters as his yacht sails away from the dock. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s yacht sails away for a refreshing summer cruise. Franklin Roosevelt in swimming pool with daughter, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Dall Boettiger Halsted, and young granddaughter Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Seagraves (nee Dall). Franklin D. Roosevelt plays and cuddles with granddaughter, Eleanor, while in the swimming pool. Anna watches her father play with her daughter.
Police rush to contain a Communist demonstration in New York City near City Hall during the Great Depression. Communist demonstrators confront policemen and are shoved by a cop . Policeman clubbing demonstrators in crowd. Police on horse back amongst demonstrators. Policeman escorts a demonstrator after arresting him. Policemen accost a resisting demonstrator. Cavalry police confront communist demonstrators. Communist demonstrator lying on the ground, below policemen’s legs. Communist demonstrators disperse to avoid policeman.
Intertitle saying “1905”. View of Low Memorial Library inside the campus of Columbia University (535 West 116th Street New York, NY 10027). View of Alma Mater, Daniel Chester French’s sculpture on the steps of the Low Memorial Library. Suffragist demonstration with women suffrage movement participants (sometimes called suffragettes) surrounded by supporters on a busy street and then by themselves, wearing thick winter coats, posing and talking together.
A railway train passes by through an industrial in America during winter. The train roof and fields are covered in white snow. Snow covered coal barges being towed by a tug boat in New York harbor.
New Yorkers crowd the beach at Brighton Beach in Brooklyn NY. USA. Sunbathers in front of a building written with “Brighton Baths”. Two women, wearing black “Bathing dresses”, lying on the beach. People diving from a springboard and sliding from a water slide to a pool. Beachgoers taking a swim on the beach. Beachgoers swimming on choppy water. Two beachgoers securely hold on to a rope fence while waves crashing on the beach. A man waves his arms while sitting on another man’s shoulders before falling as waves crash on them and other rowdy beachgoers.
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