Men from thirteen nations take part in an international naval review honoring the 350th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown, Virginia. Navy personnel on deck of ships at sea. A barrage balloon in the sky. British sailors on the deck of HMS Ark Royal. Bois Belleau carrier heads six-vessel French contingent with the flag cruiser De Grasse. Holland's battle cruiser, the Seven Provinces at sea. Italian sailors aboard San Marco. U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Erwin Wilson and top Navy brass review the huge armada from the cruiser Canberra passing down the 14-mile row of warships. Carriers underway at sea.
Native American Indian representatives from the Northwest coastal tribes of Washington and British Columbia gather at the Lummi Indian Reservation near Bellingham, Washington for water canoe races. Indians arrive at the Lummi Indian Reservation to participate in the canoe race. Indians rowing a canoe.
A trip to Honolulu, Hawaii from San Francisco, California. Animated map depicts the location of Hawaii. A cruiser leaves San Francisco for Honolulu. A Hawaiian shore. A Honolulu harbor showing buildings and a crowd on a dock. Palm trees in Honolulu. Japanese people walk along a sidewalk. A Japanese tea store. A Japanese vegetable peddler walks.
Waikiki Beach in Honolulu, Hawaii. Swimmers enjoy at Waikiki Beach. Boys run into the waves from shore. Various views of men surfing in the waters off the beach on surfboards. Surfing shots includes closeup view of Duke Kahanamoku (Duke Paoa Kahinu Mokoe Hulikohola Kahanamoku) riding a surf board. Kahanamoku is often credited with popularizing the Hawaiian sport of surfing.
Baby gorilla Sinbad at Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, Illinois. Sinbad gets a medical checkup from a doctor. Sinbad gets a bath in a container. The Doctor doing the checkup is Marlin Perkins, and the zookeeper holding and bathing Sinbad is Roy Hoff, he was the senior zookeeper of the gorillas.
Documentary film 'The Jet Engines' about the develpment of an American jet airplane, with help of the British who provide General Electric Company with a prototype engine developed by British RAF Group Captain Frank Whittle. A B-17 aircraft taxis and takes off from the runway. Vehicles carry U.S. Air Forces officers and civilian engineers to an airfield where a man stands with a gun next to a U.S. Army Air Forces B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft. The visitors look at cargo containers being offloaded from the aircraft. They contain a prototype British Whittle turbojet engine. Scene shifts to meeting of executives of the General Electric Company with U.S. Army Air Forces officers. They look at schematic of the Whittle engine. GE officials commit to building an American turbojet engine to power U.S. Air Forces airplanes.
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