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Aviator Howard Hughes lands Northrop Gamma 2G in Burbank, California, setting flight speed record from Chicago to Los Angeles

Northrop Gamma 2G (NR13761) aircraft in final approach and landing at airstrip of Union Air Terminal in Burbank California. It is arriving from its record setting speed flight from Chicago to Los Angeles, piloted by Howard Hughes. Aviator Howard Hughes emerges from cockpit and greets crew who approach plane as it taxis to a stop near terminal buildings. Howard Hughes walks away with several associates. He had flown from Chicago, Illinois to Los Angeles, California at a top speed of 215 mph, arriving in 8 hours and 10 minutes.

Date: 1936, May 14
Duration: 1 min 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070378
Cattle graze grass on grass lands in the Great Plains in the United States.

A film "Plow that broke the plains" depicts the Great Plains in the United States. Animated map of the Great Plains. Grasslands seen. A man on a horse climbs up the rocky land. Cattle graze grass on the grasslands. Wide sweeping view of American Great Plains. A farmer or rancher man watches them. Farmers enter into the plain land area with their belongings on horse carts. A plow is used and it breaks the plain land. A man takes soil in his hands and throws it back. A man with farm machinery.

Date: 1936
Duration: 7 min 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070600
Wheat crop is harvested by large mule-drawn combines

Wheat harvesting in the Great Plains, United States. Wheat growing in field. Large teams of horses drive combines to harvest wheat. View of harvested grain as it pours out of the harvester into the hands of a farmer on board. Steam train runs along a track in the distance, with smoke and steam pouring into the air from the locomotive.

Date: 1936
Duration: 1 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070601
Farm machinery is used and postwar (WWI) decline of the wheat market results in overproduction in the Great Plains in the U.S.

A homestead on a farm in the U.S. Great Plains. Horse carts break the plains. A woman sweeps stairs. A man and a child stand on the plains near a plow. The homesteaders look towards the sky in hope of rain. An explosion on the land. News headlines: 'England declares war on Germany, Belgium invaded, French win at sea' and 'War news tumbles securities, Stock Exchange Closed, Wheat Prices Soar'. A man drives a tractor with a plow on a plain land and dust cloud rises. The plow breaks the plains. News headlines: 'Wilson proclaims war, Spy ring arrested, German ships seized' and 'War sends wheat soaring, Grain up 13 points, Pit in Pandemonium'. The postwar (WWI) decline of the wheat market results in overproduction and spurs dust bowl conditions: Farm machinery is used to sow the land. Wheat grains are poured into a thresher. A steamer at a sea. Tractors are driven and plows break the plains. A dust storm in the foreground. Overproduction of wheat shown. Farmers celebrate the production of wheat. Tractors driven in the Great Plains.

Date: 1936
Duration: 5 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070602
A notice of 'Farms for Sale in lower prices' and farm machinery used for wheat production in the Great Plains of the U.S.

A homestead on a farm in the Great Plains of the United States. Wheat grown on farms. Farm machinery is used with plows in farms. A notice of 'Farms for Sale in lower prices'. Farm machinery used on the farms. The sun rises in the background. A notice of 'Own a farm away from home'. Overproduction of wheat is shown. Smoke from a chimney. Farm equipment used. An orchestra plays musical instruments.

Date: 1936
Duration: 3 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070603
Wrecked farm equipment at a damaged farm during the Dust Bowl era in the United States.

From the story of a plow that breaks plains in the Great Plains, United States. Farm machinery and a useless farm. Wrecked farm equipment. A boundary of barbed wires on farms. A wind mill, damaged electricity lines and a homesteader. Rugged terrain and useless farms. A dust storm renders a farm useless.

Date: 1936
Duration: 3 min 49 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070604