Annual straw race in Chicago, Illinois. Straw race starts. Frosh (First year college students) and older students run with straw sacks. Freshmen and upper classmen fight with each other for straw sacks. They tear their shirts off while grabbing for straw. Young men pour straw out of sacks and throw sacks over a fence. Captains of the opposing teams shake hands at the end of the match.
Motor boat racing in Albany, New York. Motor boat race starts. Motor boats underway at the Hudson River for race. Bridge in the background. Officer watches through binoculars. The boats underway on 133 mile course for race. Other boats in the river. Kenneth Mackenzie, the winner, breaks speed mark and comes out from the boat. He is greeted by a woman.
A U.S. New Orleans class cruiser underway with a task force in the Pacific, during World War 2. Upper of two 3x8 gun turrets seen (lower out of sight). Both the bow and the stern of ship are awash periodically. Three Navy TBF Avenger aircraft are seen in formation, flying slowly at low altitude overhead, all with landing gear extended.
U.S. military personnel gather around the door of a Navy R4D (Navy DC-3) parked on marsden matting ramp at an airbase in the Aleutian Islands (possibly Adak) during World War 2. Camera shifts attention to U.S. Army P-47E aircraft parked near the runway. Tents are pitched nearby and mountains are in the background. The P-40s display the characteristic yellow propeller spinners of the 11th Pursuit Squadron, “Aleutian Tigers,” but do not display more elaborate tiger markings. Back at the R4D, one of the Navy crew is checking passenger names as they board the aircraft. Next, the R4D transport plane is seen starting number 1 engine (#2 is already running). It takes off raising considerable dust as it gains speed. Its identification number, 4-R-107 is visible below the cockpit. After takeoff, it flies past a nearby mountain and circles back and buzzes the field, flying over the runway at about a thousand feet, as it proceeds on its way
This was filmed from the battleship USS Indiana, BB-58.in World War 2. Film begins with the USS Indiana making way into a port (red channel marker on her starboard side). Vought OS2U Kingfisher scout observation floatplanes parked on her stern. Numerous barrage balloons seen aloft. Change of scene to open sea. Time 01:06 to 01:18 shows the fleet oiler USS Cimarron, AO-22 fueling the USS Indiana and a destroyer. Time 01:19 to 01:25 the destroyer USS Fanning, DD-385, moving past the Indiana. Time 1:26-01:52 shows the destroyer screen, with a battleship on the horizon, covering the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga, CV-3, while a formation of Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers patrols overhead.
The entire ship's company is seen assembling on the deck of a South Dakota class battleship (possibly the USS Indiana) during World War 2. Her 16-inch guns,in a triple turret,loom over the assemblage. (The gun barrels appear to have bronze collars around their bases.) A variety of other vessels, including U.S. warships, are anchored in the background. The location is somewhere in the Pacific. The Navy Captain, assuming command of the ship, and an Admiral step upon a platform, followed by the Captain,being relieved of command, who salutes the Admiral, and steps back. The Admiral addresses the assemblage. Then the Captain assuming command, reads his orders. A cloud of black smoke appears momentarily in the background. Camera pans to Gun turret and ship's superstructure above heads of the sailors. The Admiral and two Captains join the ship's company in saluting (perhaps as national anthem is played). Scene shifts to two Navy officers wearing garrison caps, posing on the ship, and shaking hands. Waters of a bay and hills are in background. Camera then shows the new ship's Captain and the Admiral walking past some of the ship's officers, as the ceremony is ended.
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