Preparations for 1956 Democratic Convention

Title card: "Paramount News Issue No 104" / title "Convention - Democrats in Chicago" superimposed over CU donkey sculpture / aerial pan Chicago / pan down Conrad Hilton Hotel to busy streets / awning reading The Conrad Hilton, people underneath on sidewalk / CU sign "Democratic National Convention Headquarters" in hallway / various shots switchboard operators working / CU sign out from door "Transportation Rene Painter" / CU sign "Committee on Rules and Order of Business" / sign "Parliamentarian Rep. Clarence Cannon" / sign "Materials Distribution Paul G. Willis Director" / men working mimeograph machine / CU machine spitting out pages / women maybe counting Adlai Stevenson posters / picture of Stevenson with words "Stevenson For President" / people walking by flags and Stevenson picture / awning over entrance "Sheraton Blackstone," cars pass in fg / CU sign "Democratic Platform and Resolutions Committee In Session" / committee meeting / MS Chairman Rep. John McCormack pounding gavel calling meeting to order, others on sides and behind him / meeting members / pan members / exterior entrance International Amphitheatre, cars in front / Wide Angle Pan interior empty hall except for workers setting up / men working, ladder on floor / worker using saw / worker using hammer / men working on lights / men working on spotlight / working on telephones / man working on air conditioning unit under speaker's stand / CU unit built into stand / WS hall / various shots state signs on poles / traveling shot past policemen in silhouette up in balcony to convention underway with wall to wall people