African American Women's Army Corps of U.S. Army undergo military training in Astoria, New York during World War II. Interiors of building show African American dentists at work on patients. African American women of U.S. WACs (Women's Army Corps) perform a close order drill and drive jeeps.
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of India visits United States for better understanding and friendship between the two countries. Street view of Carlyle Hotel (35 E 76th St, New York, NY 10021, United States) in New York City, and, inside, ceremony on August 1 where Indira Gandhi receives prestigious U Thant Peace award. Selection Committee Chairman presents speech. Indira Gandhi delivers a speech about culture, traditional values, and philosophy. Photographers take photos. Street view of Waldorf Astoria Hotel (301 Park Avenue Manhattan, New York City) in New York with traffic passing by. Inside, she addresses the Foreign Policy Association. She talks about the Green revolution, Balance of payment, Gross Domestic Product, and nuclear weapons. Association members seated at a table. Rajiv Gandhi, elder son of Indira Gandhi, is seen seated at table with association members.
A man checks baskets and take out pigeons from one. He hand them over to a lady who releases them. The gathered crowd cheers and release more pigeons. Thousands of pigeons are seen flying in the sky. People release pigeons from other boxes too. Decoys lure pigeons to rival coops. Buildings are seen in the background. A man examines a pigeon.
Film starts showing President Franklin D. Roosevelt at a polling place during the 1938 U.S. National Elections. Next, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, the President's wife is also seen there with him. Glimpse of an unidentified politician. Another unidentified politician shaking hands with people in a crowd. New York Democratic Governor, Herbert H. Lehman, stands with his wife and family on the occasion of his re-election. Brief closeup of Governor Lehman himself. Scene shifts to the Republican candidate for New York Governor, New York County District Attorney (Manhattan), Thomas E. Dewey, who is being interviewed. (He lost the election to Governor Lehman, but only by 1.4%.) Closeup of Thomas Dewey, smiling. Two unidentified men are seen sitting by a radio. One is recording election results on a tally sheet.
The college basketball team from City College of New York (CCNY) wins a basketball game in New York City against the University of Oregon. Teams of CCNY and Oregon playing the basketball game; various plays shown. Spectators watch the match and cheer for the players. The team from CCNY wins the game. Some ambient sound of the crowd cheering is heard.
Film notes 35th anniversary of Wright Brothers' first flight and reviews history of transportation and advances in transportation brought about by railroad and aircraft. An animated map of the United states before the advent of mechanized transport methods. It illustrates the difficult and long overland journey to travel from the East Coast to the West Coast. Travel by horse and wagon over the Santa Fe Trail in 1849 is recreated in a brief film clip. Next, a locomotive is shown pulling a passenger train at high speed along a railroad at the base of a mountain. Animated map charts fairly direct path from Coast to Coast, taking only 4 days by railroad. Next a nearly straight course is traced across the map illustrating the path of an airplane taking only seven and a half hours for the journey. Change of scene shows aerial view of Howard Hughes' Lockheed 14 Super Electra Special, Model 14-N2 ( NX18973), christened "New York World's Fair 1939," in flight over New York harbor with the skyline of Manhattan, New York City in the background. Camera follows the plane as it passes over lower Manhattan. The Empire State building is seen prominently with other skyscrapers below the aircraft. This was filmed, on July 14, 1938, as Hughes and his crew were returning from Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Floyd Bennett Field, on Long Island, at the conclusion of their around-the-world flight (circling the Northern Hemisphere) from July 10 - July 14, 1938.
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