View from boat on White Nile River in Africa. Palm trees and buildings on White Nile River banks. Mountains in the background. Native people of Fashoda (also named Kodok) at river banks. Close-ups of native men and their hair styles and clothing.
President Calvin Coolidge prepares to ride a horse in Black Hills, South Dakota. President Coolidge, wearing a wide brimmed western cowboy hat, and other men ride horses through Black Hills. Sculptor Gutzon Borglum receives drills from President Coolidge for use in carving Mount Rushmore figures. Men in the background. Mount Rushmore where figures of four Presidents will be carved. An American flag flies atop the mountain where the carving will begin for the new national monument featuring the faces of Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt, and Lincoln.
Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh is welcomed with parade at end of three month tour in his airplane 'Spirit of Saint Louis', in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Men wave flags. Large crowd. Charles Lindbergh arrives at speaker's stand. His last tour stop is Mitchel Field, New York (he embarked on that flight leg on October 23, 1927).
Officials and crowd assembled at Long Island's Mitchel Field to welcome Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Colonel Lindbergh's airplane 'Spirit of St Louis' pushed by men at airfield. Charles Lindbergh poses with an officer. Cameramen take pictures while Colonel Lindbergh gets into car.
Sikorsky S-36 amphibious aircraft parked at beach in Maine. Crowd surrounds aircraft named "Dawn". Aircraft in flight over Atlantic Ocean after take off from beach. Sikorsky S-36 amphibian aircraft the "Dawn" then seen returning and landing on water back again at Old Orchard after shortened 500 mile flight due to weather. Men on beach direct aircraft. Female pilot Frances Wilson Grayson (niece of President Woodrow Wilson) exits aircraft after bad weather forces the aviatrix to abandon her third attempt to fly to Denmark. Close up view of Frances Grayson. (Grayson was flying together with pilot Wilmer Stultz and navigator Brice Goldsborough.)
Interiors of Red Cross Disaster Relief Shelter shows workers helping flood victims get homes, jobs, food and clothing. A woman worker at desk writes. Various victims at desks converse with workers. Overhead sign reads 'Seventh-Day Adventists Emergency Services'. Volunteers sort donated clothing and issue them to victims.
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