View of a Campbell Model F airplane from rear, at Bolling Field in Washington DC. It is a pusher propeller "flivver" airplane, costing $1500, with tricycle landing gear and twin tail design, powered by a stock Ford V8 engine, with single ignition. View of engine running and long transverse central elevator, as well as side being moved. View of steerable nose gear. Pilot and inventor Hayden Campbell in the cockpit. Aircraft taxis out and takes off (view of Capitol dome in distance). Views of the airplane's Ford V8 engine, with one spark plug for each cylinder. Removing and replacing the engine cowling. Interior of cockpit, with ignition key, conventional yoke flight controls, basic instruments in panel and long push-pull throttle control.
Men examine a dead beached whale. View of dead whale from different angles. Cameraman wades through water. Crowd around dead whale. A boy stands on whale. Men look at tail fins of whale. Man poses near dead whale.
Edward (formerly King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom), the Duke of Windsor and Governor of the Bahamas, and Wallis Simpson, the Duchess of Windsor, arriving in Miami where the Duchess will undergo dental surgery. A bay and palm trees as seen from a veranda of building in Miami, United States. Railings in foreground. Exteriors of a building. A ship enters the bay and harbor pulled by a tugboat and is backed to a dock. United States Coast guardsman on dock. The Duke of Windsor talks with men aboard ship. Passengers embark on ship. Crowd wave from behind fences on dock. Duke and Duchess of Windsor at microphones. Local policemen and ship's crew in background. Edward VIII makes a statement. Crowd breaks up and leaves the pier. The ship moves away from the dock.
During final year of passenger operations, a narrow gauge railroad train of the Denver and Rio Grande begins its journey through Black Canyon, at Gunnison, Colorado. Sign on top of a building reads 'Gunnison'. Smoke comes out of a chimney. Engine of the train emits smoke.Engineer oils numerous places on locomotive drive mechanisms.The train conductor,standing, in front of a Rio Grande box car, waves at a crossing guard, standing at a level crossing with a flag. His dog stands beside him. He waves his flag to stop any vehicular traffic on the road. The conductor waves at the engineer and climbs aboard a passenger car.The engineer turns in his cab and sounds the steam whistle. The fireman shovels coal into the locomotive engine firebox, from which flames emerge as door is opened. The locomotive slowly begins to move. Train is seen speeding across a railroad bridge over the Gunnison River. Two men who are fishing in the river, watch as the train crosses the bridge. View of train track, from train. This is a Rocky Mountain Railroad Club sponsored trip on the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad dated May 29, 1949 to be the last passenger train through the Black Canyon from Gunnison to Cimarron Colorado and return. The engineer seen oiling the 361's running gear and operating the consolidation is my late grandfather Mr. C L Braswell while I be leave the fireman to be Tom Doyle and the conductor Shorty Dean. My name is Richard Lehman and as a thirteen year old my mother, grandmother and I went down to the Gunnison depot to see my granddad take the last passenger train down through the Black Canyon in many years. Both my mother and grandmother can be seen in a view shot from on top of an; adjacent coal car. At the time I was unaware of what the Rocky Mountain Railroad Club was nor what the special train was for. My granddad told me to get on in the baggage car and so I was privileged to be able to take the last train through the Black Canyon before abandonment and to get acquainted with the Rocky Club
Senator Walter F. George, of Georgia, records a broadcast favoring enactment of lend lease bill (which he calls lease-lend bill). He says this is a challenge to labor and industry to unite to give full aid to countries whose defense is vital to ours. Further he speaks about using American industrial power against aggression.
Recording of remarks by Senator Burton K. Wheeler, of Montana, who objects to the Roosevelt administration's lend lease bill. He says: 'The administration wanted battle but they lost the war, now Americans know that Lend Lease bill not only gave dictatorial powers to the President but also gave him right to carry on an undeclared war all over the world.'
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