New York City, Jersey City, NJ

With no splice between this sequence and the one recorded at Phillips Academy in Andover, MA (see item Phillips Academy), one might make a case that this visit to New York and New Jersey occurred around the time—January 14, 1939—that Ross had a speaking engagement at the Foreign Policy Association, at New York’s Hotel Astor.¹ On the other hand, though, the footage is of a kind with the phantom rides Ross made during the first weeks after his arrival—see items New York City 2, New York City 3, and New York City 4. Moreover, as the Ross’s brought more than one camera along, each camera may have contained sequences of places widely apart. With no other disambiguating signs—trees with or without foliage, for example—a precise time frame for this footage cannot be established.

Combining the New York and Jersey City footage is a function of this brief piece of footage, which almost exclusively consists of phantom ride shots taken from a car and from a train that connects the two cities.

Incidentally, the factories shot from the train were adduced as evidence of Ross’s alleged spy activities (see also: Lobbyist for a foreign government 2).