Lieutenant W C Kennedy of Rockwell Aviation Field inspecting an English Spad at De Mille Field in Hollywood on Air Memorial Day. He notes a "Catnip" wild cat symbol on the plane. Captain T. Wilson, aerial gunnery instructor, is also shown inspecting an S.E.5 airplane. Airplanes seen with elaborate painted decorations. A plane takes off from De Mille Field in Hollywood.
Men holding Service flag in honor of members of the USA Air Service at De Mille Field in Hollywood, California on Air Memorial Day. Soldiers marching. Planes on field. Mary Pickford gives Service flag to Colonel H. A. Arnold. Hoisting flag. Ovation from the audience. Shakes hand with officers. Navy sailors marching.
Lieutenant S. H. Sharp and H. T. McLean see each other at De Mille Field in Hollywood, California on Air Memorial Day. Five Hispano Suiza Curtiss planes in low battle formation.
A ship in the sea. Secretary of State Henry L Stimson arrives with other peace ambassadors on the ship. Day wide view of New York City skyline and tall buildings and skyscrapers as seen from ship. A parade to welcome Stimson and others in New York City after their return from London. People on the streets to watch the parade. Stimson delivers the signed London Naval Treaty agreement to U.S. President Herbert Hoover.
Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) soldiers and officers march in New York for Memorial Day parade, together with veterans of World War 1 and other American conflicts. Elevated view of Soldiers and Sailors Monument in Riverside Park on Manhattan Island, decorated in patriotic bunting. Hudson River visible in background. View changes to parade route immediately beside the monument in Riverside Park. Marchers carry U.S. flags in hands. Ground level shot captures boots and lower legs only marching along. Veterans of World War 1, some missing limbs and using crutches, march in the parade. Also seen are National Guard units in uniform. Elderly veterans of the American Civil War are seen in the reviewing stands. An honor guard in German Army uniforms passes with three uniformed German soldiers carrying the French flag, American flag, and Imperial German War flag (Reichskriegsflagge or Empire War Flag, flown by some German nationalists in the 1920s and 1930s in protest of the Weimar Republic). They might be members of Friends of New Germany, which preceded the German American Bund. American Civil War veterans seen marching together in the parade, arms linked.
Film begins showing view from an airplane flying over a forest fire burning in the Los Padres National forest, near Santa Barbara, in California. Next, the aerial view is repeated 10 days later when men and equipment of the U.S. Forest Service have gained access to the burned out area. Scene shifts to an airfield, where a Twin Beechcraft model 18 aircraft is being loaded with a special grass seed mixture to be broadcast over the denuded area to provide protection against floods. The Twin Beech aircraft is seen taking off. Aerial view of the aircraft flying over California hills. Glimpse of the pilot at the controls in the cockpit. His nose and mouth are covered with a mask (to protect from the seed dust inside the plane). More aerial views of the plane in flight and then spraying grass seed over the damaged area.
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