The Dewey Commission, an independent body set up to examine the truth of the accusations made against Leon Trotsky in the Moscow Trials, meets to examine Trotsky at a house in Coyoacan, Mexico City, Mexico. Various guests and dignitaries on a porch (one woman in the group shot is possibly Frida Kahlo, wife of Diego Rivera). Bolshevik revolutionary Leon Trotsky greets guests including Commission Chairman, American philosopher John Dewey (with white hair and moustache). Commission members seated at the table interact with Trotsky.
Panning view of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, DC. Numerous cars are parked but a fairly open space is preserved near the Capitol building. A Kellett KD-1 autogiro lands in the open space. Pilot Lou Leavitt seen in the rear cockpit (front cockpit empty).The autogiro takes off. A chart contrasts Federal expenditures of 485 million dollars for airplane development with only 485 thousand dollars for autogiro development, with result that 96 companies are engaged in airplane work but only 2 in autogiro work. The chart depicts other relative data impacting negatively on autogiro development.
Slate tells of Soviet airplane heading to the North Pole. Russian aviators and ground crew surround a parked Twin Engine Tupolev ANT-4 aircraft at an airport in Moscow. A fuel truck is parked under the left wing and a man stands on the left engine putting fuel into its gas tank from a hose. Closeup shows a triangular pennant with an anchor displayed on the nose of the airplane. Four aviators converse under the aircraft. (Officer at far right is Soviet arctic pilot Fabio Farikh, in command of this flight.). A man carries equipment toward an access ladder, past the airplane's large landing gear strut and wheel. Men carry and load supplies aboard the aircraft, through its bottom hatch. Scene shifts to some time later. The aircraft's wheels have now been replaced by large flat skis and it sits on a snow covered-ramp.View from several feet in front of the airplane as a man holding flags signals for engine start.Two men use a long pole to turn the left engine propeller. Closeup of aviators waving from atop the airplane. They start engines. The propellers blow some snow as they taxi out for take off. Closeup of Ground crew and uniformed persons watching as they depart. View of the airplane in flight overhead.
Test flight of the Bermuda clipper aircraft from Port Washington,New York. Officer get into the clipper aircraft. They takes their seats. Pilot in the cockpit. Clipper taxis on water and takes off. Clipper in flight. Other aircraft in flight in the background.
Justice Devanter at farm house after retirement in Ellicott City,Maryland. Supreme Court Justice, Willis Van Devanter at his farm house after retirement. He fills water in glass from hand pump. He drinks water. He walks on field. Trees in the background. He watches as the cows graze field. He stands with the horse.
Coal miners in a sit down strike in Wilsonville, Illinois. Large crowd of civilians gather on street in front of mine entrance. Miners going down coal mine lift. Coal miners on sit down strike in the coal pit. Some miners play cards. Some smoke cigars and others rest. Close ups of coal miners. Miners protest.
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