An anti-gambling campaign is launched by Mayor Fiorello La Guardia in New York City. Mayor LaGuardia uses a sledgehammer to break and destroy slot machines. Views of a pile of smashed slot machines. People smash slot machines and carry them away. Mayor La Guardia and then others on a boat throw the smashed machines into the Long Island Sound. Part of a "25 years ago today" UN newsreel story issued September 24, 1959.
Automotive progress notes feature a steam powered truck and a collision-proof car. A man fills coal into the hopper of a steam-powered truck and starts the truck. The truck is driven on the roads of a stone quarry in West Virginia. The truck was imported from the UK and has written on the door, "The Sentinel Waggon Works Ltd. Shrewsbury England". Smoke from the steam truck as it drives up a hill. Scene shifts to demonstration of a collision-proof car made with stainless steel mesh and plaster of paris. It was invented by a San Diego man. The car is driven on rugged terrain. After going over a large bump the drivers door flys open. Part of a "25 years ago today" UN newsreel story issued September 24, 1959.
Wright brothers being honored after 31 years of the invention of an airplane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. U.S. planes go aloft on anniversary. An Army airship in flight over the Wright Brothers Memorial at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina and a wreath being dropped from the airship. Two wreaths at the front of the Wright Memorial. The engraved name plate "Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright" on side of memorial. Orville Wright standing beside the memorial. Several men turn an early Wright pusher aircraft to the left. Wright pusher aircraft engine, running. Wright pusher aircraft takes off and flies. Formation of P-12s in flight over New York City. P-26s in flight. The first three aircraft peel off. A formation of P-l2s in flight to the right in the background. Formation of P-l2s in flight.
National Geographic Society sponsors a balloon flight in Washington, United States. Major William E. Kepner, an army pilot and ballooner and Captain Albert W. Stevens, U.S. Army Air Corps geographic expert stand in front of a diagram which shows a 26-story office building, the shape of the balloon at the time of the launch and after it has reached the 15 mile mark. Captain Stevens explains the diagram.
31st anniversary celebration of a Wright aircraft at Kitty Hawk in North Carolina. Several men push an early Wright aircraft. Mr. Orville Wright stands and smiles. Several men pull a rope which lifts a weight in a tower in order to launch the Wright aircraft. The aircraft is in the background. Several men push the Wright aircraft and turn it around near a launch track. Two men turn the propellers on an early Wright Pusher. The launch of the Wright aircraft. The aircraft in flight low over the ground. A tug tows a Sikorsky S-42 flying boat on a road. Water on either side of the road. Hangars and buildings in the background. The S-42 takes off from water surface. The copilot of the camera aircraft. Seven P3Y Catalina in a step-down formation. A Boeing 247 in flight. 306 and 600 lb bombs drop from United States Army Air Corps B-3As and explode on the ground. Bomb-pitted earth. A civilian inspects a bomb crater.
Coast Guard flying officers, in dress blues, pose in front of a Douglas RD "Dolphin" amphibian aircraft, near hangar number 7, at Floyd Bennett Airfield in New York, United States.
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