Traditional Mardi Gras in the French Quarter of New Orleans. A colorful carnival parade passes through the streets. Krewe participants in floats throw beads, doubloons, necklaces, and trinkets to spectators. The spectators on both sides of road, raise both hands to catch the Mardi Gras throws from passing floats. Pretty girls and grotesque floats on the roads in daytime and at night as well.
Five Hot air balloons preparing for a race from Catalina Island, to the mainland, California. Views of gas tanks and flames that create the hot air for the balloons. Participant, Barbara R. Keith,a 42 year old grandmother, from Hartford, Connecticut, seen wearing an inflatable life jacket and donning her helmet. She boards her balloon and tucks her goodluck mascot (a stuffed toy dog) into the gondola. she is seen rising in her balloon. Brief view of the ground and sightseers from a balloon about 50 feet in the air. Famed balloonist, Donald Louis Piccard, is seen igniting his heater and leaving the ground aboard his balloon. (Note: This was an ill fated venture. Only one balloonist successfully reached the mainland, California. The rest had to be rescued from the water. Mrs. Keith lost her life and her body was recovered days later.)
An Eichler X-100 experimental house with modernistic features displayed for public in San Francisco. A couple arrives to visit the house. They observe the new concepts. Innovative applications of glass and plastics seen in the house. Domed skylights seen. Gardens inside and out, with an Asian influence. Modern kitchen with dining table that opens in the middle to reveal a stovetop.
American college football game between Oklahoma Sooners and the Irish of Notre Dame at South Bend in Indiana. Glimpses of football game underway with players on the move and huge crowd of spectators cheering for their respective teams. Oklahoma Sooners wins the game by forty points to nil.
Richest horse race, the Garden State Stakes at Camden in New Jersey. Horse race begins with nineteen colts and a huge crowd of spectators cheer. A horse Barbizon accelerates at last moment to win the $ 320,000 race, just by a difference of its nose with the runner up.
Texas Rangers switch from horses to cars for performing their duty. An officer rides his horse loaded with all his equipment. Officers stand near the fifty seven cars alloted to them. Rangers pack weapons and arsenal in one of the cars. An officer takes a horse inside a carrier attached with a car and drives away for patrol.
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