A Special Ambassador stands near a plane and addresses during Michigan air tour by universal envoy in Newark, New Jersey. He takes out a paper from his pocket. Plane taxis and takes off.
Golden Gloves Boxing match between Jerome Allemby and Lawrence Price in New York City at Madison Square Garden. Lawrence Price wins by a TKO. Ray Patterson wins Golden Gloves title in the Heavyweight Open Class defeating Jim Howard. View of Patterson's brother, famous boxer Floyd Patterson, seated ring side cheering for his brother, and congratulating his brother at the end of the match won by Patterson on points. Gene Tunney sits among spectators.
1936: A fashion show at Stork Club, in New York City. Models on the ramp. Spectators sitting on side of the ramp see the show.
Universal Pictures building in New York City. Martin Quigley, Junior presents Fame Award for Achievement to Milton Rackmil, President of Universal Pictures. People clap.
Preparation for launch of the Light Cruiser ship, USS Houston (CL-81) at Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company of Newport News, Virginia. Shipyard worker spreads grease on ways. He uses a wooden stick. Dock in the background.
US Army Air Force training film on the A-N Gun Camera - Scoring of Gun Sight Aiming Point Film. Army Air Forces AT-6 aircraft towing a target sleeve as other AT-6s shoot at it. AT-6 training aircraft in flight with gun camera installed in the aircraft. Pilot seen in cockpit. The aircraft, parked on ramp. Pilot climbs out of cockpit, wearing seatpack parachute. An armorer removes the film magazine and then completes a scoring data form. The film is taken to a laboratory to be developed and scored. A Lieutenant explains gun camera scoring to a group of Air Force personnel, in an auditorium. He winds the film on a 100 foot reel, removing any damaged or unused film and splicing a leader on to it. He writes pilot and mission information on the film leader. Lecturer then illustrates scoring process, using a blackboard, and demonstrating with a scoring device adapted from a 16mm motion picture projector. Finally he displays charts dealing with trajectories of 30 caliber ammunition and relationships of range, span of target, and image size. He performs arithmetic calculations on the blackboard. Animated diagrams illustrate points being discussed. A Lieutenant in the audience asks about ground targets, and the instructor discusses that and also responds to several other questions from the audience. (World War 2 period.)
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