Crew of a U.S. Air Force WB-50D Hurricane Hunter aircraft stand by their aircraft (Tail number 50-4040) on the ramp at Kindley Air Force Base, Bermuda. They are all wearing back-pack parachutes. The Aircraft Commander checks each crew members chute. Closeup of the Aircraft Commander (Captain). The aircraft and crew are of the 59th Weather Reconnaissance Flight.
Views from WB-50D aircraft flying above altocumulus clouds and below high cloud, in the vicinity of Kindley Air Force Base, Bermuda. Aerial view of a WB-50 aircraft in flight. Successively closer views as the camera aircraft draws nearer.. Tail number is seen as 50-9769. Cloud conditions are mixed. Some cumulus rising above the aircraft altitude in background. The aircraft flying in stratiform conditions.
A WB-50D Weather aircraft from the USAF 59th Reconnaissance Flight (Hurricane Hunters) takes off from Kindley Air Force Base, Bermuda.It's landing gear is still down as it approaches the camera at end of the runway, But it raises as it passes overhead. The sequence is seen again from a different camera. In both sequences, the aircraft is seen to crab to the left, compensating for a slight crosswind, as it tracks along the runway after airborne.
Opening newsreel slate reads: "Roosevelt inspects GA. Farm Colony." President Franklin D. Roosevelt is seen driving his 1931 Plymouth Phaeton car with hand controls, along a rural road on the way to visit the Pine Valley Farm Colony established by the Works Projects Administration of Georgia. In change of scene, camera shows a poultry farm with the farmer walking through broadcasting grain to feed the chickens. Another scene shows three farmers walking through and examining their crop of cabbages. Next, cattle are seen in a field. Scene changes again to focus on the President's car driving onto the the Pine Valley farms. A large number of the community are crowded around to greet him. Closeups of serious-looking school children watching the President. Closeups of unsmiling men in the group. Closeup of President Roosevelt at the controls of the car, with his personal secretary, Marguerite Alice "Missy" LeHand sharing the front seat. Two unidentified men occupy the rear seat. View of large number of somber community resident spectators, packed together near trees with whitewash partway up their trunks. Roosevelt maneuvers his car to the right, where spectators stand behind a rope line.
U.S. President Franklin D Roosevelt addresses the nation. Roosevelt seated at a desk in his office in the United States. He states that democracy has disappeared in many nations because of the unemployment, insecurity and government weakness and confusion. He further states that the democratic institutions can be preserved in the U.S.
U.S. Army General Dwight D Eisenhower visits the Chamber of Deputies of France during World War II. General Eisenhower arrives in a car. Eisenhower leaves the Foreign Office and visits the Chamber of Deputies. Soldiers standing. He arrives at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier with entourage including General Omar Bradley. Eisenhower and officials and soldiers salute. Eisenhower places a wreath on the tomb. A plaque at the base of the monument.
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