Automobiles passing the Angel's Flight funicular at 3rd and Hill Streets. The funicular cars pass one another. Countless numbers of cars closely packed into outdoor parking lot. People fill benches and crowds of pedestrians walk in a park. Car pulls up to drive-in restaurant and driver hands something to man who comes to the car from inside the restaurant. Views of concrete flood channels built by Corps of Engineers for Los Angeles river. Angel's Filght funicular car ascending hill. Car driving down the hill.
The Hollywood Vedanta Temple (1946 Vedanta Pl, Los Angeles, CA 90068, United States) founded by the Vedanta Society of Southern California in Los Angeles, California. Dome of the building in view. Li Po Chinese restaurant in the plaza of New Chinatown in Los Angeles. A 1950 Ford Coupe. Unbroken stream of automobiles traps pedestrians trying to cross. Another road lined with Palm trees and filled with moving automobiles. Scene of accident involving a streetcar or trolley, and a van.
Working of motion pictures is explained. Close up of film projector running. A montage shows varied film events, including dancers in Hawaii, a smoking volcano, biplane aircraft flying over the pyramids in Egypt, Coronation crowning of King George VI in England, United Kindgom; the Hindenburg disaster, World War I era tanks driving over hills, Franklin Delano Roosevelt at a baseball game cheering from the stands, iron smelting, a woman talking to a grocery man, and zoom in on AC generators at Hoover dam. A family watches projection of a home movie. The home movie shows a boy playing with his dog. Devices demonstrating optical illusion include a bird in the cage illusion. Demonstration of a Mutoscope-Kinetoscope flip-card projector. Thomas Edison shown in a flip card moving image. A cartoon animator at work, showing his character move as he flips pages. Parts of a movie projector are shown in detail, including lens, shutter, and exciter lamp. A cameraman operating a 35mm motion picture camera. Film being perforated during manufacture. Production of an optical sound track is explained, showing the narrator at his microphone and sound mixer using sound board and loading audio mag recorders. Animated diagrams show the functioning of a photoelectric cell in producing a variable intensity sound track. Wide shot of Hollywood movie film set and an action stunt scene being filmed. Lead actor might be James Cagney. Hollywood premiere of movie showing flood lights, cinema theater marquee, and people buying tickets at the movie theater box office. Close-up shots of faces of men and women audience members in movie theater reacting to fight scene in movie and then applauding and smiling. Scene with many hands applauding. Demonstration of the creation of 16mm film shows size comparison between 35mm and 16mm motion picture film. Montage shows many film projectors running at the same time.
United States former President Calvin Coolidge dedicates a dam named in his honor on the Native American Indian San Carlos Apache Reservation in Arizona. View of the dam and Gila river. Mountains in the background. Many people on the dam. Lunch tables arranged on the dam. President Coolidge eats lunch on top of structure across Gila River. President Coolidge smokes a peace pipe with the Native American Indian tribal people. Leaders of the Pima and Apache Indian tribes are seen.
Nineteen year old aviatrix Elinor Smith prepares for a flight at Roosevelt Field in New York. The aircraft takes off. View of land below. Woman pilot sets a new altitude record for a female flyer. Aviator Elinor Smith breaks woman's altitude record by reaching height of 32,000 feet in airplane.
A record Golden wedding anniversary party celebrated in Marysville in California. Fifty-two couples celebrate half century of married life. The couples seated on chairs. A large cake kept on a table in the center. An old man dances. A man presents a bouquet to one of the couples. The couple kisses each other.
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