Historic early aviation and flight, and man's quest for flight: A man tries to glide with ornithopter type wings attached to his arms and back. He runs and is also helped by several men who pull on a rope attached to him. He falls and his aircraft wings collapse.
Jersey Ringel, aerial wing-walker and acrobat, stands on wing of a Curtis JN-4 airplane and then jumps to the wing of another, while inflight. He swings from a ring under the wing of the second JN-4. His name: "Jersey" Ringel, is displayed on fuselage of the airplane.
Replica of an early airplane, reminiscent of the Wright Brothers era, is pushed across the tarmac at an airport in the United States. Several newer model aircraft are parked at edge of the ramp.
A film titled 'The Message' on technological advancements in the United States. An Indian runs through woods. Different forms of signaling are used for short distance communication. Native American Indian sends smoke signals. Three sailors send signals with semaphore flags from the top of a building. Mail delivery system. Mailmen in horse-drawn sleighs. Actor portraying Benjamin Franklin looks out of a window at lightning. He discovered electricity. He stands in an open field with a kite and a key. Other great inventors utilize electricity to develop telegraph, telephone, wireless and the like. A ticker tape, a telephone switchboard and a radio in operation.
A film on technological advancements in the United States. Use of belts to convey messages from an operating table to a central point. Women operate a multiplex system. They put a messages on a belt. Telegrams are routed by use of pigeon holes. The telegrams are dropped down a chute and are pigeon holed by a woman. Time is stamped on all the telegrams with an electric clock. A woman stamps the telegrams. Women put the routed telegrams in a carrier. The transmission of a message.
A film on technological advancements in the United States. Use of fast stock ticker tape machine for sending New York quotations on a long distance circuit. A man operates a ticker machine. A fast stock wire sends stock quotations. Men look and work at a ticker tape. A woman operate a piano keyboard type ticker.