The Sacramento Valley covered with flood waters. Evansville in Indiana and Henderson in Kentucky are invaded by high water as ice melts in the river. Chunks of ice in rivers. People stand on the beaches at higher area.
Sacramento River and snow covered Mount Shasta in California are seen. Building material for the Central Valley Project Shasta Dam being transported with the help of the world's largest conveyor built; a Good Year rubber belt for hauling materials for constructing the dam. Railroad of rubber stretching from Redding California to the dam site, being used to transport building materials at Shasta Dam construction site.
Two paddle wheel steamboats in a race. Smoke pours from the stacks of the boats in Sacramento, California. Captain of one of the boats is seen in bridge window. Large number of people on both of the boats cheer. Views of the stern paddle wheel at the end of a boat. Flags wave on the boats. Port of Stockton steam boat wins the race.
Boys practice before their little league baseball game in Sacramento, California. Children wearing Dodgers uniform. Max Baer, former heavyweight champ as umpire with Jean Ray. Baseball game goes on with Baer as the umpire.
Japanese billiard player Masako Katsuro in Sacramento, California. She is married to American Air Force Sergeant. She demonstrates her skills to Air Force men. She hits balls on the billiards table. Men applaud.
American aviator and businessman Howard Hughes having lunch at a restaurant in Chicago on May 14, 1936. Other people sitting and standing behind him. Hughes stands up from his seat. View of propeller on his Northrop Gamma 2G airplane being started. Hughes has his goggles on his head and takes off toward California. View of Union Air Terminal (2627 N Hollywood Way, Burbank, CA 91505, United States) in Burbank, California. Hughes steps out of plane in Los Angeles after 8 hours flight. In next scene, aviator Amy Johnson, CBE, wife of Jim Mollison, emerges from her Percival Gull Sixplane. G-ADZO, in Cape Town, South Africa on May 7, 1936 after a record-setting four day and sixteen hours flight from London. A large crowd waits to see her. People greet her with flowers. Johnson is seen among the large crowd and smiling and waving to the crowd. Scenes in clip are from a 1961 newsreel recounting events roughly 25 years prior.
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