Hermann Goering stands in an open car and reviews SA-Regiment Feldherrnhalle Stormtroopers,of which he has been made honorary Commander, as they march in Munich, Germany. The unit's band plays. The Storm troopers goosestep as they parade and pass in review. Hermann Goring gives Nazi salute as the elite unit parades past his reviewing position.
Aviator Charles Lindbergh acclaimed by French crowd at night, in Paris, after his solo non stop Trans Atlantic flight. Crowd of Parisians estimated at more than a hundred thousand turn out to greet him at Le Bourget Air Field. Part of the crowd begins to run to an illuminated building where Lindbergh appears on a on a window sill and waves at the crowd. The next day, French President Gaston Doumergue stands with Lindbergh on a balcony, where they wave the French tricolor. They converse, framed by American flags (one of which, almost falls from the balcony). Lindbergh holds and waves both the American flag and the French tricolor. Charles Lindbergh stands precariously on a window ledge and waves to French crowds.
Charles A. Lindbergh posing in front of his airplane, "The Spirit of St. Louis." The Spirit of St. Louis landing at an airfield in the United States. People gathered around the Spirit of St. Louis, with its engine running.Lindbergh climbing aboard his airplane at Roosevelt Field on May 20, 1927, and taking off on his historic solo transatlantic flight to Paris. View of Lindbergh climbing steeply in the Spirit of St. Louis during his flight from Paris to Brussels, in 1927, Nightime scenes of crowds running to see Lindbergh upon his arrival at Le Bourget airfield in Paris on May 21, 1927. French President Gaston Doumergue stands with Lindbergh on a balcony, where they wave the French tricolor. They converse, framed by American flags (one of which, almost falls from the balcony). Lindbergh holds and waves both the American flag and the French tricolor. The French President presents the Honor Legion Medal to Charles Lindbergh. Tug boats and fire boats fill New York Harbor to welcome Charles A. Lindbergh upon his arrival in that city. New York fetes Lindbergh with tickertape parade.
Early historic aviation footage focusing on French aviation pioneers like Gabriel Voisin and Alberto Santos-Dumont. An early French float plane taking off and landing. Multiwing box-like aircraft. Two early French monoplanes. Early aircraft that set performance records. 1919 picture of Raymonde de Laroche, Baroness de la Rouche, world's first woman flyer. Additional scenes of historical French aircraft and a scene with American pilot Glenn Curtiss.
Reenactment shows a meeting of Head of American Physics Department George Pegram and Dr. Vannevar Bush in the United States concerning atomic bomb during World War II. Dr. Pegram and Dr. Bush talks at dinner. Pregram, just returned from Britain, reports to Bush that the Germans are working on an atomic bomb. He says that the British scientists are of the opinion that a uranium bomb is practicable but big industrial output necessary makes it imperative. Therefore work must be done in America. Bush says he is to see the President the next day, and he is confident they will get all the help they need.
Stork Night Club of New York, United States. Interiors of Stork Club show diners at tables in Cub Room. A firl selling cigarettes walks among the diners. Waiters serve diners. Owner of Stork Club, Sherman Billingsley joins two of his friends at a table. In final sequence, Entertainer Ed Wynn is seen at a table with two women.While conversing with them, he puts his finger through a an empty lense in his glasses. He removes his glasses and begins to clean them with a handkerchief, by pulling it through both empty lense holes in their frames. . One of the women tries them on. Later, while wearing them, he puts two fingers through the empty frames and wiggles them.
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