Intertitle saying “1912”. United States Presidential candidate Woodrow Wilson delivers a campaign speech. Woodrow Wilson’s opponent, former United States President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a speech. Intertitle saying “1913”. Outgoing United States President William Howard Taft shakes hands with United States President-elect Woodrow Wilson. United States President Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration at the United States Capitol.
Two American officials brief the press as a number of original manuscript files are displayed, with "Joulia" and the year 1911 written on them. Others display the year 1913. Journalists take down notes. The officials also display copies of newspaper articles which include a political cartoon above an article entitled "Entre Policiers." Another article is headlined " ENORME." A man breaks the seal of a wooden box labeled "HWL" number 5, as the two officials along with a girl stand next to him. They take out some files from the box and look at them. One of the official looks at some photographs, including one that appears to be of an individual involved with the manuscripts (perhaps the author)..The setting appears to be a university or archive.
Major Phillipe who flew from Villacoubay to Eastchurch, England in three stops. De Moulinet who flew 1450 kilometers. Pegoud, pilot for the Bleriot firm, shown making flight tests with arresting gear. Scenes of first live parachute jump over France made by Adolphe Pegoud. Aerial maneuvers piloted by Pegoud in 1913. Views of jubilant crowd who watched the flight and race to meet Pegoud after landing, then carry him on shoulders and celebrate.
Pilot Roland Garros first man to cross the Mediterranean 1913. Pegoud taking off--first man to make successful loop in a bi-plane, shown making loops. Landing of bi-plane. View of flyer Clement Ader. Scenes of famous flyers superimposed atop take offs, landings, and aerials to show the progress from 1890 to 1945. View of Alberto Santos-Dumont. View of Bleriot. Views of aircraft flown in WW I. French aces Capt. Georges Guynemer, Lt. Charles Nungesser, Capt. Rene' Fonck. Views of practice bombing. Views of formation flying and two flights super-imposed over each other. World War 2 era bomber shown at end.
Twenty millionth car manufactured by Ford in Tennessee. The band and a crowd around a monument in Lebanon, Tennessee. Police escort the twenty millionth Ford, a black Town Sedan, during a parade. An elderly man in uniform and others in front of the twenty millionth Ford. A group pose in front of the twenty millionth Ford at Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Men in front of the car, one of them signs the logbook at Franklin, Tennessee. Spectators watch the motorcade and band pass by at Columbia, Tennessee. A sign over an old car at the roadside reads 'Welcome 20,000,000 Ford my number is 602765, I was born in 1913'. The band play in front of the Ford car. The drum major twirls the baton.
Film showing early history of flight with many early unsuccessful flying machines. As Igor Sikorsky speaks, in the background, about such earlier failures, the first scene shows a early 1900s seven wing airplane, with its propeller turning, being pushed by several men. Suddenly the the entire thing collapses into a heap, as the men run to safety. They quickly return to check on the occupant. Next, an experimental four-rotor helicopter is seen lifting above the ground, successfully, but not otherwise controllable. Then a contraption (labeled "Sky Car") employs a pulsating umbrella. It jumps up and down but does not accomplish anything else. A tricycle gear contraption, using an array of sails, and displaying the number, 691, moves along under power, but does not ever leave the ground. A helicopter of sorts, with several different size rotors falls sideways, as the pilot is adjusting it. He steps away to safety. Another glimpse of the "Sky Car." A wing-flapping contraption that does nothing else. Aviation pioneer, Lawrence Sperry, moves his early biplane up to a gasoline pump to refuel. He holds the fuel hose to his gas tank while another man pumps the fuel. Next, his airplane taxis along a public road, followed by a motorcyclist. The aircraft takes off. Sperry piloting his small single-place bi-plane "Messenger" aircraft, is seen flying above the U.S. Capitol dome, on March 22, 1922. Next, he lands on the Capitol Plaza and quickly turns the aircraft so it actually ascends several Capitol steps, before rolling back to park. Sperry climbs from the cockpit and is greeted by policemen and officials who surround him and congratulate him. (Sperry perished flying across the English Channel in 1924.) View of the Great Dome on Building 10 at the campus of MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Dr. Jerome Hunsaker, pioneer aeronautical engineer and educator, is seen in a laboratory. He speaks of beginning the aeronautical engineering education program at MIT in 1913, with Donald Douglas as an assistant.
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