Charles A Lindbergh (Lindy) and wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, in Nome, Alaska on their survey flight over the Great Circle route from New York to Tokyo, for use by commercial airlines. The Lindberghs pose in front of their Lockheed Sirius airplane, parked in the water behind them. (It is equipped with pontoons as a float plane.) Citizens of Nome are turned out to greet them. The Lindberghs cleaning up their aircraft. The couple is seen mingling among a large group of native Inuit eskimo men, women, and children, in indigenous dress, who turned out to see the famous aviator. Next, Lindbergh stands behind his wife, as she sits in the seat of a sled hitched to a team of dogs. The Lindberghs ride with the Inuit sled driver as the team of dogs pulls the sled over the frozen tundra grass. Later, they pose with three women dressed in furs. They also pose with several Inuit Eskimo women.
Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi meeting with Prime Minister Hussein Ala at Sa’adabad Palace (Tehran Province, Tehran, District 1, Taheri St, RC8F+FJ7, Iran), in northern Tehran, Iran. Large garden by Palace and Alborz mountains in background. The Shah of Iran seats himself in a chair, at a desk. The Prime Minister sits and converses with him. Shah of Iran reads several official documents and annotates one. A paper on the desk is labeled: "US News Report."
In live fire practice,during World War 1, two French soldiers walk forward and hurl hand grenades, as several others watch from behind protective barricades. The grenade throwers hit the ground as soon as they release them. Others duck down behind their barricades. New scene from atop a building in a town, an artillery shell is seen bursting and smoke rising near a building by a distant road. Two shell explosions are seen on a hillside and one releasing white smoke (possibly gas). French soldiers busy themselves at their fortified positions on high ground above a plain, while an officer slowly rotates a large finned mortar shell on its shaft, vertically. (WWI; WW1)
General Douglas MacArthur gives his speech to Allied Control Council in Tokyo. He praises the new Japanese Constitution. Men sitting in the hall listen to his speech. Several cameramen take photographs. A cameraman sets his camera for recording.
A crowd of men standing at the shore in Portmarnock in Ireland. The plane of Australian aviator Charles T. P. Ulm sunk in soft sand. Three men injured while trying to raise it from soft sand for the preparation of his take off across Atlantic to New York.
To prevent sun-tan without sunburn blistered backs girls try out a new 'Beach-bag' which is transparent and serves as a partial sunscreen. Covered from foot to neck in transparent bags the girls take sun bath on the beach at Del Monte in California.
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