Newsreel depicts the visit of former British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden to the United States. Anthony Eden gets into a limousine at Union Station. The U.S. Capitol can be seen at a distance. The cars move towards the White House. Women wave goodbye to the cars. Eden and other officials visit George Washington's tomb and home, Mount Vernon, in Alexandria, Virginia. Views of Mount Vernon. Views of Eden's wife accompanying him.
A film titled 'Lieutenant Foulois and Orville Wright make the first cross country flight. Fort Myer to Alexandria, Virginia and return'. Orville Wright along with Lieutenant Benjamin Foulois prepares to make first cross country flight. They climb into the seat of the plane. Men aboard plane.
A view of streets in vicinity of Arlington and Alexandria, Virginia. A car travels along highway towards Washington National Airport. . Cars parked in front of the Washington National Airport Terminal. Parking area of the building. Pedestrians cross the road. A view of the street past the parking area. Traffic moves along airport road. Passenger aircraft comes in for landing. Jet liner in flight over Potomac River and over runway. Three engine Jet liner aircraft. Eastern Airlines passenger jet liner comes in for landing. Allegheny Airlines passenger jet flying low as it comes in for landing. Jet liner touches down. Jet aircraft landing at National airport. A Jet on the ground and another Eastern Airline Jet taxis. A United Airlines airplane lands. A view of red runway lights and smoke from jets.
Outbreak of World War I as a consequence of Archduke of Austria-Este Francis Ferdinand's assassination in Sarajevo. Troops gather in Germany on the bidding of Kaiser Wilhelm II. Soldiers leave Berlin. Soldiers of the Alexandria Regiment march. Family members bid farewell as new recruit soldiers board a railroad train and leave for a war front. Smiling soldiers. A huge crowd at a platform to bid farewell to the soldiers. The train carrying the soldiers pulls away.
People suffer due to various disasters in the year 1949. Destruction in Ecuador due to the 1949 Ambato earthquake. A house falling apart during an earthquake. Rubble of houses, buildings, and churches in the Tungurahua Province. People clear the rubble and take out the dead bodies. Damage caused to livestock due to blizzard in the western plains of the United States. Dead cattle lie in the snow. A calf staggers in heavy snow. Airplanes drop fodder down to cattle for food. People gather at airplane crash site for Eastern Airlines flight 537 on November 1, 1949, after the passenger airplane, bound for a landing at Washington National Airport, had a mid-air collision with a military Lockheed P-38, and crashed beside the west bank of the Potomac River. Crash site of the Eastern Air Lines Douglas DC-4 (N88727) at Alexandria, Virginia. People moving dead bodies of passengers on stretchers. The steamer SS Noronic destroyed due to fire in Toronto harbor. View of the wrecked, smoking passenger ship. Dead bodies of the passengers being moved. People cry and mourn.
Methods and machines used by Germans and Italians in maritime sabotage operations. Some methods used as sneak craft are human torpedoes, midget submarines, explosive boats and torpedo boats, aka Schnellboots or S-boats. Allied ships destroyed by sneak craft. Meditaranean naval sites seen include the harbors at Alexandria and Algiers. Rock of Gibraltar. Dramatization: a swimmer used for sneaking. A man wears tight suit and breathing apparatus. The swimmer in water. The swimmer can remain underwater for half an hour. (World War II period).
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