Baby Contest for the babies who have fathers serving in the Military of the United States. The babies in the baby beauty contest ride together on a small merry go round carousel. Several babies can be seen crying. One baby is poking at the face of another baby who is upset and crying.
A biplane in flight. Plane seen flying close to the ground. A biplane stunting over large crowd in Panama Pacific Exposition. Lincoln Beachey the first stunt man adjusts his helmet. A stunt man stands on right wing of a biplane grabs curved rod under wing. He leaves the first plane, throws leg through metal loop and hangs in mid-air during actual transfer from one plane to other.
In Los Angeles the first electronically controlled all-automatic factory with a production line of machine tools doing precision air craft work under control of an electronic computer. View of computer controlled production automation system developed by Hughes Aircraft Company. A label reads "Hughes Production'. A woman is seen working on a keyboard. A man is seen encoding instructions to the computer and threading a punch tape onto a tape reader of the early computer system.
Late 20th century clip shows montage of still images from late 19th century dealing with borax. A view of Death Valley desert in United States. Deposits of borax found in the valley. Picture of San Francisco business man William T. Coleman. William Coleman invested in the borax. Mules seen carrying the cargo of borax. Twenty mule teams used to carry borax out of Death Valley, in operations by William Coleman's Company. Pictures showing the mule teams are seen.
Speed runs by 'Budweiser' SOS (Speed Of Sound) rocket powered car. The car is driven by Mr. Stan Barrett at Edwards Air Force Base. Speed is 246 miles per hour, recorded from camera number 743. The vehicle and background buildings, aircraft, hangers, and such, are reflected in surface beneath the car. Lines from a drag chute appear behind the car, but chute, itself, is not visible when it stops.
Speed runs by 'Budweiser' SOS (Speed Of Sound) rocket powered car. The car is driven by Mr. Stan Barrett at U.S. Air Force Flight Test Center, Edwards Air Force Base. Speed on this run is 246 miles per hour, and event is recorded on camera number 747, The vehicle image and background objects are reflected in the road bed. Hangars, airplanes and other aspects of the Air Base are seen behind the rocket car as it passes. Drag chute deploys, but only lines from it are seen behind the vehicle, after the run.
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