Opening scene shows women gathering for a bridge club party. They each drive to the party in their own cars and park in front of the house. While waiting for the last club member to arrive, they relax on the front porch of the hostess's home. They wear the fashions of the period, including Cloche hats, and some like flappers. The last woman to arrive drives a new Ford sedan, which attracts immediate attention from all the other women, who leave the porch and admire her car. Scene shifts to the next gathering of the bridge club, when all the womens' cars parked in front of the house, are new Fords.
The U.S. Army Air Corps Alaska expedition flight of 1934. YB-10 aircraft of the Alaska Flight are parked at an airport in Fairbanks, Alaska. Hangars are seen in background. One of the aircraft is starting its right engine. Camera pans the grass field where YB-10 are parked (and a dog stands in the center of the field). The Pan American Airways logo is painted on front of a hangar and "Pacific Alaska Airways" below it. A wind sock is atop the hangar. Scene shifts to Lieutenant Colonel Henry "Hap" Arnold, standing with his aviators in front of a YB-10 airplane. He is receiving a large symbolic "Key to the City," from Fairbanks Mayor, Ernest B. Collins. They shake hands, and Mayor Collins takes his hat off to Colonel Arnold and his fliers. Arnold and Collins pose for a closeup. Camera pans across the Alaska Flight airplanes parked on the field
A film 'The Story of Hoover Dam' shows how proposal of the dam is passed in the United States. A sign reads 'A Modern Civil Engineering Wonder of The United States'. Aerial view of the Hoover Dam. Automobile traffic across the top of the dam. Architecture of the dam. People enter onto dam to see reclamation project and listen to the story of Hoover Dam. View of Black Canyon. Animated map of geographical climate of the Colorado River. Views of mountains and flooded water. Dried crops and bare trees due to raging waters of the river. A wind mill seen. Proposal of construction of Hoover Dam comes in the House of Representatives of U.S. Capitol for Congressional approval to regulate and control the Colorado River, in 1928. View of President Calvin Coolidge addressing Congress in the U.S. Capitol in 1928. President Herbert Hoover in his office in the White House in 1930, signs the bill of appropriation for construction of the dam.
Sign reads “FBI Academy Gun Vault”. Submachine guns, rifles, shotguns, handcuffs, and revolvers neatly arranged in a gun racks and cabinets. An instructor teaches FBI Academy trainees how to disassemble M1928 Thompson Submachine guns. A student disassembles his Tommy gun. Parts of an M1928 Thompson Submachine displayed on a table. Hand shooting a hand gun pistol. FBI trainees shooting at targets at the FBI training academy gun range in Quantico.
Landscape and natural terrain views of Alaska, areas of South Eastern Alaska and Tongass National Forest where native indigenous indian totem poles are made are shown. View of glaciers across water. Two women walk away from a small PanAm passenger airplane on an airfield in Alaska. Aerial views of snow covered mountains, and wooded mountains and lakes in Alaska. Harvested wood timber floating in large pens in waterways of Alaska. Fishing boat and hauling in a large catch of salmon fish by net. View of waterfall. Mountain and lake scene at sunset.
The U.S. Army Air Corps (USAAC) Alaska Flight of 1934 departing Fairbanks Alaska on flight back to Washington, DC. Their YB-10 aircraft are seen in a line on the airfield. Spectators are at the edge of the field to see them off. Next, the aircraft are seen taxiing out for takeoff, with their Commander, Lieutenant Colonel Henry Arnold, piloting the lead aircraft, the "City of Fairbanks." Other aircraft follow in succession. Colonel Arnold's airplane takes off and proceeds in a shallow climb. Slate tells first leg is 640 miles to Juneau in 3 hours and 55 minutes. Map shows North America with outbound course to Alaska from Washington, DC, traversing the Great Lakes, Edmonton, Prince George, and White Horse, to Fairbanks. But a moving arrow shows return route via Juneau. Snow-covered mountains seen from a YB-10 on this return leg. Aerial shots of several YB-10s in formation. Slate announces next leg as 940 miles and 5 hours and 40 minutes to Seattle, Washington State. Aircraft and crews of the returning Alaska Flight, seen on a grass field in Seattle. Lieutenant Colonel Henry Arnold, expedition commander, leads his fliers across the field. Slate states remaining distance to Washington, DC, as 2700 miles and 14 hours. More shots of YB-10s in formation aloft. Shot of a YB-10 with farmland below. Ten YB-10s seen in formation, and the animated map completes the journey to Washington, DC. Aerial view from above of several YB-10s below, flying over the Potomac River, in Washington, DC, with the Lincoln Memorial, and Arlington Memorial bridge visible below. The formation of 10 planes barely visible above the Capitol building. The YB-10 named Juneau, taxiing across Bolling Field, after landing. (This segment of film is reversed, so the name and Alaska Flight logo are mirror-reversed.) The last of the 10 aircraft pulls into position on the flightline. Lieutenant Colonel Henry (Hap) Arnold stands in front of his fliers who hold a large totem pole souvenir. Secretary of War, George H. Dern, greets the returning aviators and poses next to Colonel Arnold.
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