Astronauts trained in Ohio. A civilian reporter and spacemen on a zero gravity test flight. Clouds seen below. They float in mid air. The men suspend their bodies in air.
The 31st Academy Awards night held at RKO Pantages Theater (6233 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028, United States) in Hollywood, California. Huge crowd cheers. Famous actress Ingrid Bergman walks on the Red Carpet. Hollywood couple Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis attends the ceremony. Celebrities and movie stars present for the Oscars. Presenters James Cagney and Kim Novak announces the “Best Actress” award won by Susan Hayward as Barbara Graham in the movie “I Want to Live!”. Irene Dunne announces the winner of the “Best Actor” award. The “Best Actor” award is won by David Niven for his role as Major David Angus Pollock in “Separate Tables”.
USS nuclear powered submarine 'Skate' returns back after visit to Arctic. Families and friends gather to receive the crew in Connecticut. They carry banners reading 'Welcome home, North Pole sitters'. Skate's Captain Commander Joames F Calvert and other members of the crew disembark. Cameramen take pictures.
Fashion piracy in Germany. Fashion pirates employ tricks like observing through a periscope to copy exclusive new designs. Models display new fashion creations in a room including fur coats and dresses. A pirate trying to steal dress designs looks through a keyhole in the room. Man reveals a hidden camera under his coat lapel, used to capture designs of famous designers. A woman shows a hidden camera attached to her leg. Another woman traces a design on a man's back and then it is shown that he had carbon paper under his coat to capture an image of the stolen design.
Teachers in Chicago protest pay injustice during the Great Depression, as they had not been paid for 11 months. 5,000 instructors joined by students and parents in a march and protest as they also complained about cuts in school services. Scenes from other labor strikes across United States in 1934 including shipyard and auto industry strikes. Striking workers marching. President Roosevelt intervenes in an automobile strike. President Roosevelt on Vincent Astor's yacht for a brief fishing holiday. Men in a factory or manufacturing facility punching timecards in time clocks. New automobile cars seen in production and rolling off assembly lines. Working men eat lunch beside their posts in an assembly line factory, during a break.
A newly devised non-skid tire is shown in France, 1934. The tire is shown up close and a machine is seen cutting grooves in the tire to aid with traction in all weather conditions. The non-skid tires tested on wet streets. Traffic on the streets. A woman is seen pushing a baby pram in front of a moving vehicle on rainy, wet streets. The car with older tires skids in the rain and hits the woman and baby carriage. Narrator indicates that it was a fatal accident.
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