Transcontinental Air Transport (TAT) company's coast-to-coast passengers proceed on their flight legs from Saint Louis, Missouri to Waynoka, Oklahoma. TAT employee closes door on Ford 5-AT-B tri-motor passenger airplane, at St. Louis airport. Ground crewman plugs in compressed air hose to assist start of engine number three. TAT logo seen on side of the airplane. Next, the airplane taxis and takes off on plowed runway of snow-covered field. Animated map shows airplane heading to Kansas City, Missouri. View of cockpit as co-pilot shows weather report to pilot. Shift to a TAT weather station where meteorologists launch a weather balloon to check winds aloft. Closeup of the pilot's weather report being prepared. TAT officer serving lunch food to passengers in the aircraft. View from airplane of Kansas City, and then aerial view as it descends to Wichita, Kansas. Pilots in cockpit. Copilot radios Wichita. View of TAT radio operator responding and saying they should lookout for Lindbergh who is flying the route today. Next, Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh is seen flying past the Ford Tri-motor in his Curtiss Falcon biplane. Passengers look out to see him. View from the passenger plane descending over the city of Wichita, Kansas. Animated map shows next stop as Waynoka, Oklahoma. View from the air of numerous oil derricks in Oklahoma. Passengers leaving the airplane and boarding a trailer-bus at Waynoka. Closeup of flowers and sign on restaurant table, reading, "TAT, Reserved for TAT travelers." Passengers dining.
A photoshoot featuring the Spring 1954 collection French designer Jacques Fath takes place at a castle near The Hague in the Netherlands. Models in dresses with rounded hiplines and wasp waist sit on chairs and walk around. Cameramen admire the models. Film maker records the event and is seen filming from behind his motion picture film camera. Woman takes off her bolero. A woman wears an Ottoman coat and an organdy dress. Women model in walking dress, cocktail dress, and organza cocktail dress. A model in an evening gown by the designer on the castle's balcony.
A snow covered drill field at a French Army barracks during World War 1. The words, "Viva la France," appearing to have been stamped out in large letters in the snow. Troops marching next to barracks buildings in far background. Suddenly, the "letters" in the snow get up and one realizes they were soldiers lying in the snow to spell out the battle cry. The soldiers quickly form up ready to march off the field. (WWI. WW1)
The British unveil a vehicle called the Stalwart that can navigate the toughest terrain as well as move in water. The vehicle is a huge six wheel drive military transport with individually sprung drive wheels to give it traction in all situations. It is for military or farm use. The vehicle is shown moving on varied terrain areas with ease. It moves in deep water operating like a partially submerged boat and then boards a ship at sea by floating up to its opened ramp and driving up onto the ship. Showing another British vehicle innovation, men stand near a "Gadabout" car in a snow covered area. It has twin engines -- a motor in the front and the rear. Each engine has an independent gear lever. Driver is shown engaging 2nd gear lever to use additional engine in helping it move in the snow.
The British Government relocates the Chinese boat dwellers or Tanka people in Hong Kong. Sampan boat houses crowd in Aberdeen Harbor. The British colonial government provides one room for each family in this large-scale housing project. Vehicles on the beachhead carry the boat dwellers to the British Crown colony. The boats are destroyed.
Distant view of the steamer ,the Prescott arriving at docks in Ontario Canada. Young sailors line up and pose for camera. The Captain of Prescott emerges out and is greeted by officials. Two sailors point at logo 'Prescott' marked on ship. A lady with an official opens up champaign bottle to celebrate ship's departure. Spectators farewell the many aboard. 1941.
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