American aviator Howard Hughes testing his H-1 Racer plane, Los Angeles. Hughes stands by his H-1 Racer plane. Crowd and hangar in background. Hughes boards his plane. Hughes H-1 Racer taxis on runway. Plane lands after short test flight.
Olga Celeste, a woman large cat trainer, celebrates a birthday in Los Angeles, California. She puts a cake on a table in front of her. The gate of the cage in the background. She lights the candle on the cake. She is joined at the table by four leopards. She feeds the leopards scraps of meat from a plate. The animals eat and fight with each other. Olga smiles.
A football match held between the teams of University of California (Trojans) and University of Stanford (Indians) in Los Angeles, California. A huge crowd of 90,000 people seated in the spectator area. The crowd cheers. Match in progress. Players at line of scrimmage. Stanford wins over California, thirteen to zero.
A doctor examines George Bocklet as a strange disease takes inches off George's height, while it increases the size of his skull, Los Angeles, California. Doctor measures George's head. George wears a hat. (NOTE: George Bocklet's condition was later diagnosed as Paget's Disease.)
Staff train two 400-pound lions trained to tow a cart at a zoo of the California Zoological Society in Los Angeles, California. Lions seen towing the cart, carrying a driver and some boxes of food. They stop in front of the cage of black bear while a staff member throws food to a bear in the cage. Lions roar while towing. The lions run away, wrecking the cart. Three men wielding sticks try to get control of the running lions. View of the lions laying down relaxing beside the crashed cart. From UN newsreel 25-year retrospective, dated October 27, 1960.
A massive wildfire fire breaks out around Los Angeles, California including the Malibu Beach area. A large blaze of wildfire. Smoke rises from houses. CCC workers as firemen fight the fires. Firefighters try to control the blaze. A burning house. A boy runs away from wildfire. From a November 14, 1960 newsreel recounting events in the Great Depression 25 years earlier.