A film titled 'The World Power Conference September 7 to 12, 1936 Washington DC' on U.S. electric power resources. Four study tours precede and follow the conference. They are: mineral sources of power, hydraulic sources of power, metropolitan gas and electric utilities and railway transportation.
Frido W. Kessler and his rocket-propelled mail plane. (Allegedly, the first scheduled mail-delivery rocket flight) Kessler is seen in his workshop with his test stand and apparatus. Launch of Kessler's first winged liquid-fueled (liquid oxygen and Kerosene) mail rocket plane on frozen Greenwood Lake, New York, February 23,1936. Launch team opens the nose to insert mail into the rocket-propelled glider plane (reportedly designed by German rocket pioneer Dr. Willy Ley). Kessler poses with a little girl, Gloria Schleich Quackenbush, for whom the plane is named. She holds a silver cup of snow. They are surrounded by a cluster of men. Photographic equipment is set up next to them. The girl, Gloria, empties the cup of snow onto the tail of the rocket plane, to Christen it "Gloria (I)." Launch team fueling the rocket from containers. A technician in fireproof protective suit lights fuel at tail of the plane. It flares up in flames and then settles down with normal rocket burn, and leaves the launch stand. (A second rocket plane is seen sitting on the ice near the launch stand.) The rocket glider only goes about 20 feet before falling onto the ice. Team members look over the stand and prepare to try again with Kessler's second plane, the "Gloria (II)." They load the mail (6000 letters and postcards) into the nose and set the plane on the launch stand. It launches very nose high, and strikes the ice near the stand. But the rocket motor continues to propel it across the ice until it takes off again and continues, a way in the air until flipping over and crashing on the ice. View of people surrounding the broken plane on the ice. (Note: The second attempt carried the Gloria II and its mail, about 2000 feet, far enough to cross the border from New York into New Jersey, constituting an interstate mail delivery, and making the letters and post cards worthy mementos of the event.)
United States Army trainees in California, United States visiting local landmarks on their day off. The trainees move towards Scotty's Castle, a two-story Mission Revival mansion named for gold prospector Walter E. Scott, at the edge of Death Valley in California. Road sign showing the direction to Scotty’s Castle (123 Scotty's Castle Rd, California, United States). View of plaque at castle gate noting it as an entry point for the 49ers seeking gold during the gold rush of 1849. View of sand and rock formations and wide view of arid desert landscape on edge of Death Valley California. View of Scotty's Castle.
American Olympians return from the Berlin Olympics. They are welcomed in New York, United States. Filmed from a building high above the street, people look down from windows at a ticker tape parade in New York City. Motorcade moves past a large crowd on side walks. People look down from balcony of a building. A highly crowded street during the parade. Road construction in center of street restricts path for vehicles.A campaign banner for Republican Presidential candidate Alf Landon is stretched high above and across the street, between tall buildings.
Church choir seen entering St. Thomas' Parish Episcopal Church (1772 Church Street, NW, Washington, D.C.) President Franklin Roosevelt and and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt arrive in the President's 1937 Packard seven-passenger parade touring car, accompanied Secret Service agents. Views of citizens gathered on streets and sidewalks nearby to see the President arrive. Police monitor the scene. President's motorcade arrives under side awning of stone church. Scene from after service when President Roosevelt stands on church steps together with Rev. Howard S. Wilkinson (Rector of St. Thomas as of 1936) and Reverend Allen O. Miller, Assistant to the rector. . Mrs. Roosevelt is seen behind in a fur coat. The President uses a cane to steady himself. Presidential car departs (bearing license plate with number 101). It is followed by another car carrying Secret Service agents, with license plate "USSS" for U.S. Secret Service. United States President Franklin D Roosevelt attends church service in the United States. Choir members in white robes enter the church from the sidewalk. Men and women watch from the fenced area. President Franklin D Roosevelt arrives in a 1937 Packard 12 convertible automobile. Secret Service accompany him and ride in other cars. After the service, Eleanor Roosevelt stands behind the President. as he speaks with clergymen at the door of the church.
Franciscan monks at Mission Santa Barbara in Santa Barbara, California. A red map of the United States. Exterior view of the Santa Barbara Mission at Santa Barbara in California, USA. A Franciscan monk walking in a covered walkway of the Mission (Misión de Santa Bárbara 2201 Laguna St. Santa Barbara, California 93105). Greyhound tourist bus travels through a tunnel and on a highway. Exterior views of the greyhound bus, and interior point of view shot of highway and approaching tunnel from inside the bus. Silhouette of the passenger bus driver, driving on the highway.
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