Formation of B-6A bombers flying over Southern Long Island, New York, above Jones Beach and South shore residential estates. They head northward where Long Island Sound and the North Shore of Long Island can be seen. In one aircraft, a West Point cadet is seen , sitting next to the pilot, in open cockpit of bomber, looking at map. The formation proceeds towards the Hudson River and over a dam, reservoir, and water aeration plant providing water to New York City..
The American Interplanetary Society's first liquid fuel rocket is launched from Staten Island in New York, United States in 1933. George Edward Pendray of the AIS, and his associate preparing for the launch. The 7 1/2 foot rocket is placed on a stand. Other men look on. The rocket, fueled with gasoline and liquid oxygen, takes off. Its fuel tank overheats and explodes moments after takeoff and the rocket crashes to the beach below. (From a November 10, 1958 newsreel recounting events 25 years earlier. The world's first successful liquid fuel rocket was launched by Robert Goddard in Auburn, Massachusetts, on 16 March 1926. This film records the first such attempt under auspices of the American Interplanetary Society, in 1933. )
A wall clock hanging on top of a window. Camera shows American inventor Thomas Alva Edison’s laboratory. Glass laboratory bottles and tubes on display. Footage circa 1920 of Thomas Alva Edison showing early lightbulbs to colleagues. A carbon filament light bulb lights up. Camera moves closer to show the glowing carbon filament inside the lamp. Early filmmaking in the United States. A man cranks a Kinetograph, the first movie camera invented by Edison. A belly dancer performs in one of Edison’s early films. A film rolling. A boxing match filmed by Thomas Edison. A cameraman records the boxing match inside Edison’s Black Maria film studio in West Orange, New Jersey. Exteriors of the Black Maria studio showing the turntable and wheels underneath. 19th century women wearing summer dresses strolling in film captured by Edison. Cameramen sent by Edison films people on the beach and in amusement park rides. Edison having lunch with other inventors Henry Ford Sr., Harvey Firestone Sr., and Alexander Graham Bell. View of Edison’s study. A light bulb is turned off.
Ben Hogan wins the Goodall Palm Beach Round-Robin Tournament at the Fresh Meadows Club in Flushing, New York. Players make the strokes. Ben Hogan and Sam Snead stroke the ball during the match. An audience watches the game. Ben Hogan gets the championship trophy. He poses.
United States Military Academy air indoctrination at Eglin Air Force base in United States. U.S. aircraft B-29 in flight. Parachute attachment and A-3 lifeboat dropped from the plane. Coastline in the background. Two parachutists jump in water from C-47 aircraft. Trees and houses on coast. Men aboard a lifeboat. Men swim out to men who are in rubber life raft. SA-16 approaches for landing. It lands on water and taxis. Pier in view. Men in rubber raft. Cadets walk towards trees on coast. Military dependants bathe on beach. Rubber life raft loads in water. Flare smoke arising from boat. Motor launch underway at sea. Two parachutists descend.
Location is the Ellipse, south of the White House, in Washington, DC. The occasion is the dedication of a temporary Zero milestone in ceremonies at the start of the U.S. Army Motor Transport Corps'so-called "Truck Train," a convoy of military vehicles that is to travel the "Lincoln Highway" across the United States, to San Francisco, California. The ceremony begins with a flag raising, where all stand and uniformed Army officers salute. Congressman Julius Kahn, of California, salutes with his hat over his heart. The temporary marker is covered with white cloth and two wreaths, which officials remove and Secretary of War Newton D. Baker, begins his speech accepting the temporary marker. (A permanent marker needed an act of Congress for approval. So a temporary one was approved to allow the launch of the Army cross-country convoy.) The Washington Monument is visible in the background, as Mr. Baker delivers his remarks.
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