Pastor Argudin y Pedroso's paintings displayed in an exhibition at the Harmon Foundation, 140 Nassau Street, Manhattan, New York City. Mrs. William E. Harmon and others at exhibition of Spanish African American art. Viewers include Arturo (Arthur) Alfonso Schomburg. Artist Richmond Barthe is seen among the crowd, and possibly also Beauford Delaney.
Views of aircraft in flight at 10th Annual All-American Air Maneuvers. Airplanes in different flight formations and acrobatic exercises. A huge crowd witness the exhibition in Miami, Florida.
Female American pilot Jacqueline Cochran tests a fighter airplane. An aircraft lands at an airfield. Jacqueline Cochran smiles and waves from the cockpit. Crowds gathered under the control tower to watch Cochran’s flight. Cochran performs aerial stunts taking off from a platform on top of a moving car. A man on the ground demonstrates a wingsuit with flaps on his arms like wings. A parachutist jumps off from an airplane. Two white parachutes open in midair. Parachutist lands on the ground.
Police paddy wagon pulls up to a building and policemen unload donated toys. View inside a workshop where police volunteers repair and repaint toys to make them ready as gifts for poor children at Christmas during the Great Depression. Several boys and girls watch the men at work and view tables piled high with toys. Scene changes to streets of New York City filled with pedestrians, shoppers, and automobile traffic during busy holiday shopping season. View inside a large multi-level department store filled with crowds of busy shoppers looking at items in display cases, walking through, and riding escalators to other levels.
Santa Claus on water skis is towed behind a boat as he arrives at Miami Beach, Florida. A group of young women in swimsuits greet Santa Claus at the dock. Santa Clause presents stuffed toys and dolls to the women from his bag.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt cuts his vacation short and returns to the mainland United States to visit a dentist. President Roosevelt on board ship USS Potomac (AG-25) sailing to Miami, Florida. President Roosevelt standing holding the arm of his son (likely James or Elliott). President Roosevelt and entourage in a car in motorcade, crowd at the side of road waving to him. President at railway station, surrounded by a huge gathering in Miami, as train pulls away from station.
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