United States engineers at Chanute Field, Illinois. Engineers and war production workers building and assembling aircraft engines and airplanes inside an aircraft factory, early in World War 2, before America's entry into the war. Americans build equipment to aid allies and prepare for defense as war accelerates in Europe during World War II. Banks of spark plugs being tested, men assembling engines and propellers for airplanes. Man testing gear for lowering landing wheels on aircraft.
South American heavyweight, Arturo Godoy in Carmel, New York. Arturo Godoy practices for a boxing Championship. Arturo on a field with a trainer. He practices boxing on punching bag.
Clip opens with Gilded Age scenes near the turn of the century in the United States, circa late 1890s. Busy sidewalk scene in a city with men and women in suits, dresses, and hats of the era walking and in conversation. Wealthy people moving about. Group of women ascends steps toward a building. Reunion game of baseball between old men formerly from the Orange 'Y' team and the 'Bears' in Newark, New Jersey. Elderly players pose for a photograph in front of a team banner that says 1885. Elderly baseball players play on a field as fans young and old in the stands watch the game. Young spectators cheer a play by the senior citizen players. A player hits a grounder and another player comes in from 3rd base toward what looks to be a slide at home plate, but he ends up sitting down on the plate.
Painter Alex Lockhart paints the highest span at Royal Gorge bridge in Colorado. He swings perilously 1053 feet above the Arkansas River from the girders of the highest bridge. Alex Lockhart swings on a rope as he paints the bridge.
Workers raise 20-ton Bourdon bell, the world's largest tuned carillon bell, 400 feet to Riverside Church (490 Riverside Dr, New York, NY 10027, United States) tower in New York City. The Bourdon bell was funded by John D. Rockefeller, a parishioner at the church. Man stands next to the large bell. The 20-ton bell being raised to be put on the Riverside Church tower. The church is in Harlem between Riverside Drive and Claremont Ave (between 120th Street and 122nd Street).
Success of 'Hanging Eye' by the United States Army Air Service in Newport News, Virginia. Demonstrations of direct bombing over enemy targets with the help of a dirigible hidden in a cloud. Lieuts, Paul and McCracken are lowered in a tiny Hanging Eye to blimp and telephone to craft above. Aviators seated in a little car with fields on ground in the background.
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