The film titled 'Child of the Ghetto' depicts sorrows faced by a woman in the United States. Mix of dramatized scenes and actual footage. A woman weeps as she looks at her mother's dead body. A man consoles her. The woman sits in a chair in her house. Another woman comes and tells her to go out to work. At approximately 1 minute into the clip is seen footage of Rivington Street, in the lower east side of Manhattan, New York City, with immigrants crowding the sidewalks and push cart vendors and their carts jamming the curbs. She seeks work but is rejected several times. She finally gets piece work at a garment factory and takes a pile of clothes to her house. She sews clothes and goes to the factory to deliver the garments and get paid. The factory owner's son steals money from his father and accuses the woman of it. The woman runs from the factory and arrives at her house. A policeman arrives at her house. The woman runs from her house and hides in the country. A farmer sees her and takes her to his house. She started living at the farmer's house. The policeman comes to fish near the farmer's house. He sees the woman and recognizes her. She asks the policeman to believe she is innocent. He does, and goes back to fishing. The farmer and the girl are happy.
The wedding of Frime Chaye Rivke, daughter of Rabbi Chaim Elazar, of Munkács, to Baruch Rabinovich, on March 15, 1933. Jewish men ride decorated bicycles along a street. They wear sashes containing Jewish blessings. They are surrounded by crowds and followed by other men on bicycles. A horse-drawn carriage moves through the crowd, carrying Jewish Rabbis, and elders and escorted by walking policemen and followed by men carrying banners in Yiddish. The procession and crowd goes toward a wedding pavillion set up in courtyard of the Synagogue. Policemen work to control the crowd. Rabbi Chaim Elazar speaks to the crowd, in Yiddish, exhorting Jews in America to keep the Sabbath. The crowd mills around as several persons make their way through the gates of the courtyard, being protected by police.The wedding party proceeds through Synagogue grounds to the wedding canopy, where Cantor Mordekhai Salomon sings and a Klezmer band plays. Reportedly, over 20,000 guests attended the wedding from all over Europe and the U.S.
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain makes a speech at Heston Airport in London, England after returning from a meeting with Adolf Hitler in Berchtesgarden, Bavaria. A Lockheed aircraft with Prime Minister Chamberlain on board taxis at Heston Airport. News cameramen await the arrival of the Prime Minister. Chamberlain steps from the aircraft and shakes hands with British Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax. His aircraft is surrounded by officials, well wishers, and members of the press. He struggles through the crowd intermingled with English Bobbies (police) and speaks to the crowd. Police then escort him to a waiting car. The car is soon surrounded by people. It drives away past well wishers who line the roadway. Police control the onlookers.
The Walt Disney Studios (500 S Buena Vista St, Burbank, CA 91521, USA) in Burbank, California. Walt Disney Production building. People walking in the compound of the building. A sign on corner of Mickey Avenue. A Coast Guard policeman at the gate. Navy personnel and women entering and leaving the gate. The brassard around the policeman's arm reads 'Coast Guard Police' (during World War 2.)
Aviator Charles Lindbergh arrives in New York, United States after his solo non stop Trans Atlantic flight. Ships and boats fill New York harbor and fire boats discharge plumes of water in salute. Charles Lindbergh enters an open car, at battery park, in lower Manhattan, and proceeds with mounted police and motorcycle escort, in a tickertape parade up Broadway. Charles Lindbergh rides in a convertible surrounded by mounted police. Police foot patrolmen struggle to keep spectators on sidewalks. The sky is whitened by falling confetti and tickertape. Crowd is packed elbow-to-elbow in front of New York City Hall, as Mayor James J. Walker greets Colonel Lindbergh. Charles Lindbergh speaks to the assemblage. Crowds line the sidewalks as the Lindbergh party travels by car along the streets of New York City. View of Charles Lindbergh in open cockpit of an airplane.
African civilians protest in Sharpeville, South Africa. Civilians gather on a street outside a police station. They demonstrate against government apartheid laws and against policies which require the civilians to carry passes all the time. People holding boards and placards. A sign reads: 'Freedom in our lifetime'. Police fire at the demonstrators. Many people are killed and injured in the police action which became known as the Sharpeville massacre. Dead bodies and wounded men lying on the street.
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