An Army-Navy football match in Philadelphia. Army cadet making touch down. Army kicking for point and missing. Navy team makes a touch down and gains extra points by a kick. Crowds jam the stands, and cheer for the Navy. Score board reads Navy 7, Army 12. Crowds come down from stands on the grounds. Middies sitting in stands. Army Band parading on the field, cadets follow. The band and cadets in the field. The Annapolis Middies seated in the stands.
Activities aboard a ship docked at Philadelphia Naval Base in Philadelphia. Ships in Reserve Fleet Basin. USS Brooklyn (CL-40) light cruiser in the foreground. Stern view of USS Brooklyn and USS Nashville (CL-43). Camera pans over ships, including the heavy cruisers USS Louisville CA 28, USS Augusta CA 31, and USS Portland CA 33, in the Philadelphia Navy Yard. United States and Chile Naval officials with State Department representatives on deck of USS Brooklyn. Navy band plays. American flag lowered and the Chilean Flag is raised aboard the USS Brooklyn. Chilean flag raised aboard the USS Nashville. United States Navy Rear Admiral Roscoe E Schuirmann hands ships papers to Chilean Ambassador Felix Nieto Del Rio. Chilean flag fly at masts of the USS Nashville and USS Brooklyn. Chilean officers inspect. Ambassador Del Rio and Vice Admiral of the Chilean Navy, Immanuel Holger come up gangway of USS Brooklyn. Rear Admiral Schuirmann greets them. Yni Louis Rivas Voisin and Yoeman Felix Labbe of the Chilean Navy raise flag aboard USS Brooklyn.
City of Philadelphia hails patriot Haym Salomon who helped finance the Continental Army in the American Revolution against Britain. People march on a street with the American flag. Officials place wreath at plaque honoring Haym Salomon in Mikveh Israel Cemetery. They then salute. One elderly Civil War veteran is among them. A man reads from a piece of paper in hand. Inscription on the plaque honoring Haym Salomon is shown up close.
People gather at the Fairmount Park in Philadelphia, United States. It was reported that children saw a vision of Virgin Mary in the bushes of the park. The bush is converted into a shrine, hung with many rosaries and medals. People watch the bush and pray.
Officers and soldiers of the 108th National Guard Field Artillery. They practice firing with .22 caliber rifles. Men talking on the radio. Special control device facilitates practicing the effectiveness of the 'real McCoy'. Officers discussing amongst themselves and planning strategies. (World War II period).
Dignitaries at the Republican National Convention, Philadelphia. Board outside the building reads: 'Headquarters, Republican National Convention, June 24th'. Republican leaders and delegates from all over the United States arrive to nominate a Presidential candidate. Thomas Dewey, Senator Robert Taft and Wendell Willkie lead the list of nominees. Governor Stassen of Minnesota delivers the keynote address. A large crowd seated inside the hall as per the seating arrangements. They cheer and applaud.