A basketball match between CCNY (City College of New York) and Oregon in New York. The match in progress. A record crowd of 16,386 basketball fans cheer and applaud. Players make three pointers. CCNY beats a the highly favored Oregon team 38-36.
U.S. Army Major General Hugh A Drum reviews cadets at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York. Cadets assemble for their first review of the season. They march on a path and on the inspection grounds. Major General Drum stands with other officers. He gives them the 'once over' as they march by in formation. The cadets in ranks.
Ice making chemicals tested in New York. Scientists make a new discovery - certain powders that absorb heat so quickly when mixed that they freeze water or other liquids instantly. This combination is called 'Quicold'. Two men at a table in a laboratory. One scientist mixes two powders and a liquid in a martini shaker to create the 'Quicold'. He then screws on the lid and gives it to the second man who mixes the three together. Fog on the shaker surface. A thermometer is used to check the temperature of the prepared fluid. The temperature drops rapidly. The man inserts three test tubes filled with water into a beaker full of the prepared fluid. On removal, the water in the test tubes is frozen. The man removes the ice and breaks it into pieces.
Soldiers bound for war: U.S. troops entrain at the New York port for transportation to the European Theater during World War II. Soldiers carrying full field packs and rifles assemble outside barracks and march forward from Camp Kilmer, New Jersey. Interior of a moving troop transport train. A soldier peels and eats an orange. Other soldiers sleep, rest and look out of a window of the railroad train. The soldiers get off the train with their bags in New York. The New York skyline in the background.
A Boarding ramp is seen extending to the docket Swedish ocean liner, M.S. Gripsholm, from a covered pier at Jersey City, New Jersey, during World War 2. A policeman and a ship's crewman carry a sick man aboard on a litter. At the base of the ramp, Japanese Nationals and Issei stand in group waiting to board. Two armed U.S. sailors guard the ramp. View switches to the Gripsholm's deck where passenger families are happily greeting one another. Many are family and friends who know each other. Camera pans along the ship's deck, where many passengers are seated and others continue to greet one another. View of several passengers seated outdoors, on deck. Two small children squat near the railing to look outside. The Manhattan, New York City skyline is seen in fog, in the background. On the main deck, girl walks with a very small child. Two little girls descend a stairs to a lower deck. Several little boys stand by a railing to look out on the Hudson River. A mother brings a very small child up the gang plank.
Canadian and American parcels loaded onto Red Cross Gripsholm ship in New York during World War II. Parcels are intended for delivery to Allied prisoners of war in Japanese prison camps. A female American officer checks the parcels.
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