Members of a winter swimming club enjoy swimming, Chicago. Woman skipping rope on a snowfield. Women and old age men get into ice-strewn water. Men and women swim and play in water.
A group of young lions at Gay's Lion Farm, El Monte. Lions cut their teeth on rings formed by automobile tires hanging above the reach of the brutes. The lions derive amusement from the arrangement.
Japanese Emperor Hirohito inspects his troops in Japan. The Emperor and other Japanese officers on horseback. The Emperor reviews his troops on a large open field. Japanese soldiers on horseback pass in review. Japanese officers arrive on a stand and the Emperor salutes from the stand.
The Orient Express passenger train in Europe. The Orient Express passenger train at a railroad station. Seen in the station is steam locomotive with running number: 01 089, which was built by the Bossig Company of Germany, in 1930. The locomotive belches steam and makes noises as a dispatcher on the platform signals for it to depart. It gradually moves away with a roar, and gains speed. Passenger cars comprising the train, are seen as it leaves the station. A white uniformed train attendant is seen standing above train steps of a car, as train pulls away.
Aviation thrills during the Thompson Trophy Race of National Air Races in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. Aircraft take off from an air base. Colonel Roscoe Turner is forced out because of a burning engine. Harold Neuman wins the race. The aircraft land. People gather at the air base to greet the pilots. Pilot Harold Neumann seen smiling. From a 1960 newsreel describing the event 25 years prior.
A Russian science fiction film depicting the history of early rocket club experiments in Russia. Scientists watch equipment on which pictures related to the space appear. Three men are sent into the space in a rocket.