Aviator Charles Lindbergh prepares to fly to Mexico as a goodwill ambassador. A gale blowing. An officer with Lindbergh near his plane 'Spirit of Saint Louis'. They shake hands and Lindbergh climb into the cockpit. Two officers near the plane. Me push the plane onto the runway. People watch as the plane taxis and takes off.
U.S. Army soldiers arrive at a training encampment by train. Soldiers in training each firing a pistol at targets on an open field. Groups of soldiers prone in a line firing rifles, then running across a field. The troops mount a wall obstacle. Again they lie prone and fire across a field. The troops are in training for mission to Veracruz Mexico following the Tampico Affair.
U.S. Cavalry troopers pack their horses and are inspected. Cavalry forces receive rifles and inspect them. Led by General Frederick Funston, they depart Galveston, Texas, for Mexico, to quell raids by Mexican leader, Pancho Villa, during the Punitive Expedition
Ford Rouge plant in Dearborn, United States. The final assembly line in the plant in Ford Rouge in Dearborn. Workmen at work along the assembly line. The spectators move in a queue and watch the vehicles in the assembly line from behind a barrier. Men, women and children view the vehicles. The President-elect of Mexico Pascual Ortiz Rubio along with Edsel Ford, President of the Ford Motor Company. Edsel Ford points out something to the President-elect Rubio. The men talking. Several men and women watching the vehicles in the assembly line. The vehicles are rolled out of the assembly line. A group of men stand and talk beside the line. The vehicles are rolled by the workmen one after the other out of the assembly line. Spectators standing in a line. Men, women and children come out of the plant. The vehicles driven out of the plant one behind the other. Other vehicles in the background.
Players of Latin America win U.S. National Singles Championship of tennis in Forest Hills, New York. Rafael Herrera Osuna of Mexico plays tennis match with his opponent, Frank Froehling. Rafael Herrera Osuna wins the U.S. National Men's Singles Championship. Spectators watch the match. Maria Ester Audion Bueno, of Brazil, receives standing ovation of audience. Maria Bueno plays and wins the U.S. National Women's Singles Championship from Margaret Court. Rafael Osuna and Maria Bueno hold trophies and smile.
View of a full moon. View of rotating white satellite dish at night-time. Station staff working on Kauai Hawaii tracking station, one of the telemetry stations for the Mercury-Atlas 6 network. A Filipino telemetry communicator turns his head to speak to a colleague as they monitor the Friendship 7’s journey. View of a full moon in blue. View of the at Guaymas, Mexico tracking station at dawn. View of door with notice in English and Spanish saying, “Keep the doors closed critical air conditioning”, “Favor de cerrar la Puerta debemos mantener temperature constante” and “aviso- notice”. A portly Mexican scientist enters the computer room where his colleagues are working on telemetry for Friendship 7. The portly Mexican scientist gives his American colleague a reassuring tap on the shoulders. “M-A-O-T-N, status green, preceding with free-pass calibrations…” the American telemetry communicator radios. View of moon with blue hue. View of the Mercury-Atlas 6 telemetry station in Port Arguello, California. Two telemetry communicators on their computer working as they wait out the long countdown for Friendship 7’s take-off. A telemetry communicator opens a thermous, puts on a pair of headphones, and speaks. Three telemetry communicators in a computer room working. View of the Mercury-Atlas 6 telemetry station in Corpus Christi, Texas. Telemetry communicator, wearing headphones, speaking, says "roger, all systems, would you please commence pre-flight calibrations at this time since the countdown is progressing normally...." Two telemetry communicators on their desks, preparing for preflight calibration.