An artist creates pictures using colored salt in Buffalo, New York. The artist creates upside down, pouring colored salt to create a picture of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery building. He then tips the picture up and the salt pours to the ground, destroying the picture. He then creates a picture of the Universal Newsreel Globe, and puts the letters ' Universal Newsreel with Graham Mcnamee' on the globe. This, too, is destroyed when it is lifted by the artist.
U.S. Navy Curtiss airplanes are released for the Allies in Buffalo, New York during World War II. The airplanes parked at an airbase. Men working on the airplanes. An aircraft takes off and in flight overhead.
Two pilots stand in front of a P-40 airplane at the Curtiss Aircraft Company in Buffalo, NY. The pilots are H. Lloyd Child, Curtiss’ chief test pilot (at left) and apparently a USAAF major (at right). They are performing acceptance flight tests on new planes during World War II. Another pilot is in the cockpit of the plane behind them. A P-40 is seen taxiing rapidly on the ramp near the Curtiss hangars at the Buffalo Airport. A shiny P-40 being taxied. The first P-40 takes off and climbs out with landing gear extended. The shiny one does likewise. The first P-40 is seen circling high overhead, with landing gear still extended. Next, it is seen over the runway on final approach, about to land. Curtiss employees move aircraft parts in an open stake truck, next to a building, in the foreground.
A wresting match in Buffalo. Wresting match in progress. Wrestling match between Polish wrestler Talun and Danno O'Mahoney. Polish wrestler downs Danno O'Mahoney to win the contest.
Audience enters the Town Hall in New York to hear a recital by Marian Anderson on December 30, 1935. Curtains are opened. Marian Anderson stands beside a pianist on the stage. Audience applauds. She sings while the pianist plays. Marian Anderson bows to the audience. Curtains are closed. Two assistants help Marian sit in a chair because she has been performing with a broken ankle. View of the streets in the District of South Philadelphia., Marian's native hometown. Marian's mother Mrs Anna Anderson at her home. Shots of members of the Union Baptist Church passing an offering plate to raise money to aid Marian Anderson. Marian Anderson talks with manager Sol Hurok in dressing room. Marian Sings during another concert. Crowd applauds as she finishes. View of the New York Times showing name of Marian Anderson in the roster list of great American artists. Montage shows Marian's concerts cards, awards received by Marian from city foundations, the Philadelphia Bach Award of 10,000 dollars in 1941. Marian performs outside at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC, USA on Easter Sunday April 9, 1939. Thousands in attendance at the concert as she sings My Country Tis of Thee.
Pilots test fly a P-40 airplane at a Curtiss Company facility at Buffalo, NY (the Buffalo municipal airport) during World War II. Curtiss company employees giving a final cleanup and polish to a shiny P-40 airplane. parked on the ramp. Two pilots are suited up to fly: H. Lloyd Child, Curtiss’ chief test pilot (at left), and a U.S. Army Air Force major (at right), are dressed in flight suits, helmets, goggles, and wearing seat-pack parachutes. They stand beside a well-worn P-40 airplane that has a pilot/technician in its cockpit, checking controls. H. Lloyd Child (at left), points to a clipboard on his leg with information on it and discusses it with another pilot (the USAAF major). Next, a pilot is seen taxiing the shiny P-40 at fairly high speed, with the canopy open. He taxis past parked aircraft in front of a hangar, including a Curtiss SBC Helldiver; a Stinson Gullwing; and a Spartan Executive airplane. The P-40 taxis out to the runway where the pilot makes a long takeoff roll before breaking ground. Then he pulls the P-40 into a fairly steep climb, leveling off at about traffic pattern altitude, without retracting his landing gear.
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