Aaron Douglas is shown working on a painting. Aaron Douglas (May 26, 1898 - February 3, 1979) was an American painter and a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance.
Aaron Douglas is shown working on a large painting. He interacts with a lady and a man in a museum in New York City. African American painter, Aaron Douglas (May 26, 1898 - February 3, 1979), was an American painter and a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance.
History of aviation. A balloon in flight. Historic glider such as that which interested U.S. War Department as early as 1898. In 1903, a crew of men moving a Wright Flyer into position. Two men turn over propellers on a Wright Flyer, and the engine starts. View of the Wright-designed water-cooled engine. View of Orville Wright. The famous first powered flight, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, with Orville Wright at controls. Animation shows that 120 foot flight juxtaposed against a B-36 wing. Wilbur Wright in Europe, in 1908, gesturing as he converses with interested parties. A gallery of spectators including the President of France, King of England, King of Spain, and King of Italy. Wilbur Wright places a wheel under the right wing of a Wright Flyer and lashes it to the strut. A team of horses pulls the plane across the field. Men maneuver the plane onto a monorail on the ground. Men pull on a heavy rope to raise a weight in a tower, for a catapult. Two men spin the propellers and the Wright Brothers airplane motor starts. Wilbur Wright and his passenger, a French journalist, board the plane. The catapult weight drops, launching the aircraft which flies low over the field. U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, on a podium. War department issues specifications for a heavier-than-air craft. Reenactment of a Wright brother signing a bid contract. A Wright Flyer airborne at Fort Myer, Virginia, as the Wrights meet the Army specifications and sell, U.S. Army airplane number 1, to the War Department, in 1908. Gold Aviator wings being pinned on the uniform of a U.S. Army pilot. Photograph of Army Air Forces Chief, General Henry (Hap) Arnold, wearing his original aviator wings on his service uniform. A Glenn Curtis training airplane starting up and taking off. View of a DH-4 airplane and a Wright Flyer taking off together.
Subcommittee of House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) holds hearing in Los Angeles, California, United States. Johannes (Hanns) Eisler, musician, composer and film maker, is being questioned. He is questioned about his associations with the Communist Party and the Soviet Union. The witness spells his full name for the Committee, and states that he was born July 5, 1898, in Leipsig, Germany. He states his occupation, as composer and that he studied in Vienna and was a student of Arnold Schonberg. In response to questions, he recalls visiting the Soviet Union several times in the early 1930s, for film making and musical publishing. He denies ever receiving any monies from the Soviet Government.
Filipino President Manuel Luis Quezon passes away in the United States. The funeral ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. Procession over the Memorial Bridge into Arlington Cemetery. Artillery is fired to honor the late President. The casket on a caisson. The caisson moves through entrance of the cemetery. Officers and dignitaries walking. The casket is carried into the USS Maine Memorial, a tribute to officers and men who lost their lives on USS Maine on 15 February, 1898. Dignitaries pay tribute to the late President. Soldiers fire rifles in salute. (World War II period).
John Charles Daly, standing in the Hall of Heroes at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, speaks about recipients of the Medal of Honor during the Civil War and Indian Campaigns. Excerpts from films about those events are then shown. A newspaper headline reads 'Southern States withdraw from Union'. Dramatized scenes: Men fire artillery during the American Civil War in 1861. Soldiers mounted on horseback advance on a battlefield. A montage of current day scenes show battlefield at Gettysburg and various memorial statues commemorating Union soldiers of the Civil War. . Mr. Daly points at names of Civil War Union heroes (1861-1865) and heroes of Native American Indian Campaigns (1861-1898) in the Hall of Heroes at the Pentagon in Virginia.