Aerial view from airplane flying low over a dairy pasture outside San Jacinto, California, shows cars and people below, gathered around a parked Soviet Tupolev ANT-25 aircraft that landed there on July 14, 1937, after a nonstop flight over the North Pole, from Moscow, Russia. Closeup of local people standing in roped off area, looking at the airplane. Scene changes to Soviet pilot, Mikhail Gromov; Co-pilot, Sergei Danilin, and Navigator, Andrei Yumashev, meeting the Press, 20 miles away, on veranda at March Army Air Field Officers Club. Back at the landing site, local people walk under the aircraft wings and examine it closely. Letters "25ND25" are stenciled under the left wing. Back at March Field, American Air Corps officers shake hands with the Soviet flyers.
The first Albatross birds from Midway Island land in San Francisco, California after a 4000 miles flight. Two men take the birds out of a cage. A Pan American Clipper aircrfat parked in the background. A man feeds the birds inside a cage at the Fleischacker Zoo.
American students take an angling course during a summer camp in Eugene, Oregon. Girls practice with rods and reels in hands. Trainers teach the girls to hold and operate the fishing rods. One of the girls wearing boots stands in water. A group of girls catches mountain trout fish.
The High Hat Competition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Men and women wearing headgears of unique designs. A woman with a fruit basket hat. A man lights his cigarette from a candle on a woman's hat. The woman wearing a rock garden hat with a fountain wins the High Hat Competition.
An air show at Miami Municipal Airport in Miami, Florida. A huge crowd gathered to watch the show. Flags of various countries on poles. The 11th All American Air Maneuvers performs different stunts with aircraft. A fleet of service airplanes fly in formation. Three aircraft fly leave trails of smoke to form designs in the sky.
City of Philadelphia hails patriot Haym Salomon who helped finance the Continental Army in the American Revolution against Britain. People march on a street with the American flag. Officials place wreath at plaque honoring Haym Salomon in Mikveh Israel Cemetery. They then salute. One elderly Civil War veteran is among them. A man reads from a piece of paper in hand. Inscription on the plaque honoring Haym Salomon is shown up close.
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