Christening ceremony of SS President Hoover. Bow of ship shows letters 'President Hoover San Francisco'. Mrs Herbert Hoover christens the SS President Hoover. Crowd assembled for the ceremony. Ship is launched and it goes into water. SS President Hoover underway at sea.
Crowd gathered outside offices of the Zeppelin Transport Company at a building in Lakehurst Naval Air Station, upon arrival of the German zeppelin dirigible, Hindenburg (LZ-129) following its flight from Germany. A commercial bus is parked ready to transport passengers from the Hindenburg. A photographer sits on the bus roof. Crowd listens to Dr. Hugo Eckener, of the Zeppelin Company, who just arrived on the Hindenburg. After speaking, Dr. Eckener struggles through the crowd to enter the office. Sign overhead reads, among other things, 'German Zeppelin Transport Co' and 'American Airlines Inc'. Arriving passengers leave the office and make their way, through the throng, to the bus. Several speak to reporters on their way. The name: "Pulion and Shirla Bus Company, Inc." is painted on the siide of bus, as well as lists of places it stops, including:Lakewood, Point Pleasant, and Madison Square Garden.
Steam locomotive pulls long passenger train up to dirigible hangar at Lakehurst Naval Air Station.Visitors crowded aroung outside the hangar to see the German dirigible, LZ 129, Hindenburg, parked inside the hangar. Crowd enters the gate of the building. Sign overhead reads 'No Packages or Cameras allowed inside hangar'. The visitors are monitored by U.S. Marines and U.S. Navy personnel, as they enter the hangar.
Front view of LZ 129 Hindenburg approaching airfield for landing. LZ 129 Hindenburg overhead descending. Men await landing of Hindenburg on airfield.The Hindenburg makes several passes above airfield. Ground crew sets off smoke to show wind conditions. Tail fins of airship show Nazi swastika emblem on them. Ground crew near mooring tower at airfield.The Hindenburg descends to make landing.
LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin airship in flight. Crew members peer through open windows and open door. Name "Graf Zeppelin" painted on side of the airship. Ground crew sailors look up at LZ-127 in the air above Lakehurst. Ground crewmen surround the control bridge and cabin of the LZ-127, to stabilize and maneuver it on the ground. Views of Graf Zeppelin in flight over Lakehurst. It passes by a hangar.
U.S. Military Officers march across the snowy campus of Yale University, to an auditorium, to witness the award of Yale's Howland Memorial Prize to British Field Marshal Sir John Dill. U.S. Chief of Naval operations, Admiral King, and U.S. Army Chief of Staff , General George C. Marshall, take part in academic procession with Sir John Dill, and are seated on the stage during the presentation. Sir John speaks, followed by General Marshall, who remarks about the accord between American and British Forces.
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