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Pilot Howard Hughes in cockpit of Northrop Gamma 2G, departing Chicago, bound for Los Angeles to set speed record

Howard Hughes in the cockpit of Northrop Gamma 2G, NR13761, preparing to depart Chicago and attempting a speed record from Chicago Illinois to Los Angeles, California. Men standing near the parked airplane. The aircraft starts and taxis. Hughes pilot in the cockpit. Airport buildings in the background including an American Airlines terminal.

Date: 1936, May 14
Duration: 1 min 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070374
American aviator Howard Robard Hughes flying Northrop Gamma 2G (NR-13761) from Chicago to Los Angeles

American aviator Howard Hughes at an airfield in Chicago Illinois. Hughes poses in front of his parked, rented Northrop Gamma 2G (NR13761), as he prepares to set a new flight speed record from Chicago, Illinois to Los Angeles, California. Men stand nearby. Airport terminal buildings in the background. Hughes boards the airplane. Hughes in the cockpit of the Northrop Gamma 2G aircraft. Several men stand near the airplane. The airplane taxis and takes off and in flight overhead. It reached Los Angeles in 8 hours and 10 minutes, setting a new speed record for east-to-west flight between Chicago and Los Angeles.

Date: 1936, May 14
Duration: 3 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070375
American aviator Howard Hughes arriving at Union Air Terminal in Burbank California after setting speed record from Chicago to Los Angeles

Exterior view of terminal and tower of airport called Union Air Terminal in Burbank, California. View of Northrop Gamma 2G (NR13761) aircraft, piloted by aviator Howard Hughes, as it lands in Burbank, having set a speed record for flight from Chicago to Los Angeles. View of the Northrop Gamma 2G aircraft as it taxis and stops near airport terminal buildings. Howard Hughes is greeted by crew and supporters. He removes flight goggles, stands, and exits the aircraft. Hughes in his Northrop Gamma 2G had flown from Chicago to Los Angeles in 8 hours and 10 minutes, traveling at 215 miles per hour.

Date: 1936, May 14
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070377
Aviator Howard Hughes lands Northrop Gamma 2G in Burbank, California, setting flight speed record from Chicago to Los Angeles

Northrop Gamma 2G (NR13761) aircraft in final approach and landing at airstrip of Union Air Terminal in Burbank California. It is arriving from its record setting speed flight from Chicago to Los Angeles, piloted by Howard Hughes. Aviator Howard Hughes emerges from cockpit and greets crew who approach plane as it taxis to a stop near terminal buildings. Howard Hughes walks away with several associates. He had flown from Chicago, Illinois to Los Angeles, California at a top speed of 215 mph, arriving in 8 hours and 10 minutes.

Date: 1936, May 14
Duration: 1 min 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070378
Cattle graze grass on grass lands in the Great Plains in the United States.

A film "Plow that broke the plains" depicts the Great Plains in the United States. Animated map of the Great Plains. Grasslands seen. A man on a horse climbs up the rocky land. Cattle graze grass on the grasslands. Wide sweeping view of American Great Plains. A farmer or rancher man watches them. Farmers enter into the plain land area with their belongings on horse carts. A plow is used and it breaks the plain land. A man takes soil in his hands and throws it back. A man with farm machinery.

Date: 1936
Duration: 7 min 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070600
Wheat crop is harvested by large mule-drawn combines

Wheat harvesting in the Great Plains, United States. Wheat growing in field. Large teams of horses drive combines to harvest wheat. View of harvested grain as it pours out of the harvester into the hands of a farmer on board. Steam train runs along a track in the distance, with smoke and steam pouring into the air from the locomotive.

Date: 1936
Duration: 1 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070601