(With audio). American singer and Hollywood actor Frank Sinatra performs during a filming at the Walton High School Auditorium in the Bronx, New York City. Sinatra talks to the audience. He sings 'The Song is You'. Women's Reserve members (WAVES - Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) seated in the hall. A conductor conducts the Station Military and Dance Band. Sailors play various instruments like the double bass, trumpets, and clarinets. Women military WAVES members applaud after the performance. He acknowledges the applause.
Women military WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) seated in the Walton High School Auditorium in the Bronx, New York City. The Women's military reserve units await a performance by Frank Sinatra. WAVES applaud and cheer. A WAVES stands next to a board stating the night's performance by Frank Sinatra as well as the Station Military and Dance Band. WAVES seated inside the auditorium. They applaud.
Interior of NBC studios in New York City, United States. Marian Anderson singing "Let us break bread together", Franz Rupp at piano. Views of Marian singing. Radio technician on phone in booth.
U.S. First Lady Mrs Anna Eleanor Roosevelt and Princess Martha of Norway at a gala pageant in Madison Square Garden, New York City. Mrs Roosevelt and Princess Martha open a drive to collect funds for the Red Cross. Both of them on the stage. A huge gathering enjoys stage performances.
Scene at Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Port Newark, New Jersey, as the U.S. Destroyer Escort USS McConnell is launched. Shipyard workers aboard the deck and handling lines. U.S. Naval Ensign displayed at her bow and crew looking down. Mrs. Grace Otteson McConnell swings the bottle of champagne and the USS McConnell slides down the ways after christening. View from deck of the McConnell as she goes down the ways. View from water, as she enters, stern-first. Change of scene to high vantage point overlooking the shipyard, at change of shift, when those ending leave and those arriving enter the yard to start work. Workers leaving through guarded gate. Incoming workers punching in on the time clock.
French sailors at the dock. Salvage operation of ship SS Normandie at New York City. SS Normandie lays on her side in the dock following fire accident.
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