Hollywood actor Ronald Reagan, President of the Screen Actors Guild, is sworn in and testifies before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC).
The House Committee of Un-American Activities (HUAC) hears testimony from Hollywood Studio Heads, Louis B. Mayer of MGM Studios and Jack L. Warner of Warner Brothers Studios. . Cameramen shoot with cameras. Men work with recording machines. Louis B. Mayer poses, alone and then with attorney Paul V. McNutt, representing the Motion Picture Association of America. (MPAA). Members of the committee J. Parnell Thomas,Chairman, Richard B. Vail , John S. Wood and Richard Nixon sit while hearing. Committee chief investigator John E. Stripling questions witnesses. Three unidentified witnesses are seen briefly. Louis B. Mayer and attorney Paul V. McNutt prepare to testify. Jack L Warner , accompanied by Paul V. McNutt is sworn in as a witness. Eric Johnston, President of MPAA, is seen.
King of Siam, Prajadhipok and his Queen Ramphaiphanni at Scarborough, Briarcliff Manor in New York. Train passes station. Cars parked outside the station. Officers gather to welcome the King. The King and Queen in a balcony. The Queen holds a bouquet and the King tips his hat and waves.
A famous Polar bitch (canine) named 'Maggie' in Washington DC. The bitch sits with her pups. She holds one of her pups in mouth. Puppy dogs hung in woolen socks. A woman feeds them with bottle. The pups sleep in socks.
Circus clowns learn leaping in Marietta, Georgia. Men jump from raised wooden platform. Three elephants stand in middle. A man jumps from a springboard and leaps over a group of elephants standing shoulder to shoulder, then lands on a pad on the other side. Men show acrobatics while jumping. Spectators watch them.
Bandleader-Aviator, Roger Wolfe Kahn, son of multimillionaire banker, Otto Kahn, sits in a 1930 Bellanca CH-400 Skyrocket airplane. He taxis and takes off, flying from New York to Norfolk Virginia, where he makes a daring low altitude test of system for in-flight pickup of mail. He swoops to within a few yards of the pickup point, and snags a mail satchel suspended atop a building only 102 feet high, The mail pouch is delivered by air drop in a field, where it is picked up by a man who places it in a car and drives away. (Note: This actual airplane, Bellanca NC 7084, is being restored by its owner, Dan Cullman of Kent, Washington.)
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