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Major Ulmstead led plane sets a record at Floyd Bennett Field, and Army Air Corps tries out a miniature plane in Dayton, Ohio.

A new 22 ton flying fortress plane in flight. The plane lands at Floyd Bennett Field, New York. Plane sets a record as it flies from California to New York in 9 hours and 14 ½ minutes. Major Ulmstead talks with people, standing near plane. Army Air Corps tries out a miniature plane in Dayton, Ohio. Model aircraft launched from a catapult. Plane controlled by radio from ground. A parachute brings it to earth safely.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1939, August 2
Duration: 1 min 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055167
Admiral Stark sworn in as new Naval Chief and Francis Sayre appointed new commissioner to the Philippines in Washington DC.

Admiral Harold R Stark takes over the post of Chief of Naval operations, succeeding Admiral William D Leahy, newly appointed Governor General of Puerto Rico in Washington DC. Former Secretary of State Francis B Sayre, new commissioner to the Philippines, leaves the White House with ex-commissioner Paul V McNutt, after a conference with President Roosevelt.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1939, August 2
Duration: 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055169
W C Bailey, on trip to Chicago in Elgin, Illinois.

W C Bailey of Underhill, Vermont poses with his bicycle during his trip to Chicago in Elgin, Illinois. He rides a bicycle.

Location: Elgin Illinois USA
Date: 1939, August 2
Duration: 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055170
People take their possessions out of devastated houses due to a tornado in Metropolis, Illinois.

Devastated buildings due to a tornado 25 years back in Metropolis, Illinois. Debris of devastated building on car. Wooden planks. Devastated houses. People take their possessions out of houses.

Location: Metropolis Illinois USA
Date: 1935, March 28
Duration: 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055175
A 1960 newsreel retrospective shows 1935 demonstration of a combination police revolver and movie camera.

Combination revolver and miniature movie camera invented by O.W. Atkins of Los Angeles. 1935 film opens showing a policeman holding a revolver (unloaded) pointed directly at the camera. A small camera is attached under the gun barrel. A side view of the revolver shows a cutaway of the movie camera attached underneath. The camera's mechanism moves the film. Next, a police officer is seen standing and pointing the gun-camera. Then in an enactment, a round camera view, ostensibly from the gun-camera, shows a man running toward the officer and being shot down by him. Next, a man in civilian clothes examines a strip of motion picture film from the gun-camera.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1935
Duration: 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055177
Boy triggers fire alarm and manacle affixes to his arm; fire fighters respond to alarm

As a prank, a teenage boy maliciously convinces a younger boy to trigger a fire alarm. The younger boy reaches into a fire alarm box on a street corner and he triggers the alarm, but a manacle is affixed to his arm as he withdraws it, to mark him as the one who sounded the alarm. Fire fighters respond to the alarm. The manacle device was being employed to discourage false alarms.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1935
Duration: 17 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055178
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