Scenes of Amelia Earhart taxiing her Lockheed Vega 5B airplane to the ramp, at Oakland Airport, on January 12, 1935, having left Wheeler Field, Honolulu the day before. This completed her solo flight from Honolulu, Hawaii (the first person to successfully accomplish such a transpacific flight). Crowds her airplane as she taxis in, and parks near a hangar of the U.S. Naval Air Station. Amelia stands in the cockpit of her airplane, holding a bouquet of flowers, as crowds mill about on the ramp beneath. Change of scene shows Amelia standing on a steel platform, of the airport tower, with her husband, George Putnam. Closeups of Amelia.
A huge ticker tape parade welcomes Earhart back to New York. Thousands of New Yorkers gather on streets and join the parade. Ticket tapes being showered on the parade. Earhart with New York Mayor Jimmy Walker. Holding flowers she christens a car.
Shows swimsuit girls playing a game of horseshoes at Elk Lake in Oregon,United States. Girls pitch wooden horseshoes at a target in the lake.
Steeplechase Park stages its annual bathing Beauty contest for grandmothers at Coney Island in New York. Grandmothers in swimsuits participate in the contests. Judges mark the contestants. Mrs. Theresa Caffrey, aged 81, wins the contest.
Scenes from America's annual harness racing event, the Hambletonian being held at Goshen in New York. Shows trotters racing and spectators cheering for their favorites from the stands.
Surrounded by press, public and photographers U.S. aviatrix Amelia Earhart Putnam gives an interview at an airfield in United States. She leaves with some officials.
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