President Franklin D. Roosevelt and members of his party, bidding farewell as they prepare to depart Honolulu, Hawaii, on the USS Houston. The President waves his hat to the gathered crowd. Song of Aloha is heard. Wake of the vessel underway, as viewed from the stern.
American First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt goes Christmas shopping in the United States. The First Lady at a shop. Toys at display. She looks at the toys. A man dressed as Santa Claus shows her the toys. She buys them for her grandchildren. From a December 14, 1959 newsreel recounting events 25 years earlier.
Workers in a brewery in the United States clean away cobwebs and ready equipment at a beer factory to resume beer production after the end of Prohibition. They remove dust and cobwebs from the bottling and brewing equipment. Two workers polish a large brewing tank. A number of dusty beer bottles on a bottling stand. Barrels being loaded on horse carts. A worker brushes the barrels and the horses too.
A film titled 'Sky Fleets of the Navy' on maneuvers of U.S. ships. A U.S. fleet underway at sea in the United States. The bow of a battleship cuts the water. Battle ships steaming in a battle formation. USS Lexington underway in the background. A line of cruisers and battleships in formation underway at sea. USS Utah, radio control ship for target practice during bombing by U.S. Navy aircraft carrier squadron. Officers talk. They salute each other. One of the officer talks to a bugler who blows a bugle. Men of USS Utah leave the ship so that it may be used as a bombing target. The ship under radio control. An officer on the control ship uses equipment and instruments to operate the ship by radio control.
A film on maneuvers of U.S. sky scouts in the United States. US Navy airship USS Macon in flight. A U.S. Navy O3U Corsair aircraft on catapult in the foreground. The control car of USS Macon shows admirals during fleet maneuvers.
German carpenter Bruno Richard Hauptmann arrested in United States. Hauptmann suspected of the kidnapping of the son of American aviator Charles Lindbergh. A trail of marked ransom bills leads to his arrest. Exterior of a house. Men inspecting the ransom bills and other proofs and evidence.
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