Daytime view of Chicago landmarks, including Buckingham Fountain in Grant Park in Chicago. Exterior view of Chicago Sun Times and Chicago Daily News newspaper building. Cars, traffic, and pedestrians on sidewalks along streets of Chicago, including Michigan Avenue, with Prudential Building rising in background. Democratic National Convention of 1968: Democratic representatives from all states descend from a parked United passenger airplane at airport outside Chicago. They greet and shake hands with each other. Cars on roads approaching city of Chicago. Posters in the city welcoming the democrats including one on a highway overpass that reads, "Welcome Delegates. Democratic National convention." Another, smaller fountain in a city park of Chicago and view of buildings along street. Convention attendees inside International Amphitheater hallways, moving from room to room and registering. An African American boy wearing a hat with a "McGovern" sticker hands out stickers endorsing George McGovern. The boy shakes hands with a delegate and smiles. Delegates in conversation together. Staff assisting delegates, man typing at typewriter, monitoring television feeds. Men journalists in a room working at typewriters (has appearance of a newspaper or journalist news room also.) Several African American women typing.
American aviator Howard Hughes at an airfield in Chicago Illinois. Hughes poses in front of his parked, rented Northrop Gamma 2G (NR13761), as he prepares to set a new flight speed record from Chicago, Illinois to Los Angeles, California. Men stand nearby. Airport terminal buildings in the background. Hughes boards the airplane. Hughes in the cockpit of the Northrop Gamma 2G aircraft. Several men stand near the airplane. The airplane taxis and takes off and in flight overhead. It reached Los Angeles in 8 hours and 10 minutes, setting a new speed record for east-to-west flight between Chicago and Los Angeles.
The airborne "City of Chicago" airplane circling the Sky Harbor Airport, at Northbrook, Illinois, setting a new flight endurance record. A large number of people gathered at the airport looking skywards. Stinson SM-1 aircraft, known as "Big Ben," flown by their brothers Albert and Walter, refuels City of Chicago in mid air. After refueling is complete, the hose is seen to drop free from the "City of Chicago." One of the Hunter brothers on the nose of "City of Chicago" as he inspects an engine. Civilians look at the sky.
Industrial factory production in the late 1960s United States. Factory machine prints sheets of can labels. Canned goods emerge from a large machine. Glass bottles and toilet paper rolls move along conveyor belt inside a factory. A machine producing and releasing a newly created yellow plastic bottle into a pile of yellow plastic bottles. Packaged food machine manufactures crust and pies for packs of Sara Lee frozen pies. View of the Marina City building (300 N State St, Chicago, IL 60654, United States) in downtown Chicago, Illinois USA.
U.S. President John Kennedy attends the first ballgame played at the new $20 million District of Columbia Stadium, or DC Stadium, in April 1962. 45,000 spectators in stands for the opening of the stadium and the Major League Baseball season. Glimpse of the new DC Stadium in Washington, DC, filled with baseball fans. President John F. Kennedy enters the ballpark, accompanied by David Francis Powers, and proceeds toward seats bearing the Presidential seal. Spectators in nearby seats stand to greet the President, and several shake his hand. Scene shifts to players and newsmen on the field all focused on President Kennedy. News photographers are busy photographing him. Camera shifts to President Kennedy making a long throw followed by the ballplayers scrambling for it on the ballfield. View of the President smiling after his throw, with Illinois Republican Senator Everett Dirksen standing to his left, and slightly behind him, and David Powers to his right. Senator George Smathers of Florida is laughing behind them. The President bends down momentarily revealing Senator Mike Mansfield of Montana, directly behind him and Special Assistant to the President Lawrence “Larry” O’Brien, at Mansfield's right. Associate Press Secretary Andrew Hatcher, wearing sun glasses is behind and to left of Dirksen. Closeup of Home plate umpire Charlie Berry shouting "Play Ball!" after brief rain delay. Lights are on during daytime as game is played. Washington Senators player hits single to left field. Senators go on to beat the visiting Detroit Tigers 4-1. (Note: The stadium was later renamed Robert F. Kennedy Stadium, or RFK Stadium, in 1969).
Film opens showing people in an American city (possibly Chicago) celebrating the Allied victory over Japan on VJ Day, August 15th, 1945. Scene shifts abruptly to Chicago, Illinois, where French General Charles de Gaulle is seen saluting in a reviewing stand at Victory Plaza near Lasalle Street entrance to City Hall. (On August 24th, he had accepted an invitation from Mayor Edward Kelly to stop in Chicago on August 27-28, 1945, during his visit to the U.S. and Canada.) Next, general de Gaulle and Mayor Kelly are seen in an open car in a motorcade amidst crowds of well-wishers. Enthusiastic spectators run along side their car. Glimpse of a dense crowd of people, including a contingent of sailors in dress whites. Final scene shows General de Gaulle speaking with reporters and photographers near a sign reading "W-G-N." (A Chicago radio station). (World War II period).
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