Newsreel titled 'Opera Stars Sing Xmas Music for Settlement Kids.' Metropolitan Opera stars Lauritz Melchior and Elizabeth Rethberg, Amy Ellerman and Enzio Pinza stage a performance on Christmas for the small poor children of Henry Street Settlement in New York. Pianist accompanies the opera stars as they sing "Oh Come All Ye Faithful." Children enjoy and clap as the singers finish.
Evacuation of Czech Jews fleeing Nazi German persecution in Czechoslovakia early during World War 2. They board a Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij or KLM (Dutch Airlines) airplane. Most passengers are women and small children. A woman, from the plane waves to her relatives standing at the airport terminal building. A large crowd gathered outside the terminal building and ticketing office. Boys and girls wave and smile as they enter the tarmac area and approach the parked aircraft. The Pilot of the plane looks from the cockpit. The same plane brought such a group to Croydon Airport (Airport House, Purley Way, Croydon CR0 0XZ, United Kingdom), London, United Kingdom, in January 1939.
Development of first airplane by Wright brothers. Wilbur Wright flies in his plane with a passenger, in France. Headlines of a newspaper state his record. Wilbur Wright and a passenger sit on a plane. Plane catapulted in an open field. Plane flies over men in field. Two men sit in plane.
Development of first airplane by Wright brothers. Wilbur Wright flies in his plane at record breaking altitude, in France. Snowy mountain range as seen from the Wright Flyer.
Development of airplane by Wright brothers. Wilbur Wright demonstrates his plane before King of Italy and Italian Government. Wilbur and two other passengers sit in a plane and plane launches. A group of officers watch the plane in flight. Ruins of old Italian buildings as seen from a plane.
Development of early airplane. The most successful competitor of Wright brothers Henry Farmen and his airplane, in 1908. Men working on it. Farmen fills gas tank of hi s plane while other persons on ground watch. Farmen flying machine takes off in a ground.
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