A Steam shovel breaks ground at River Rouge Plant of Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Michigan. Men watch as the steam shovel breaks ground for a new water tunnel for the power plant. Production plant buildings in the background. Steam rises up from chimneys.
Parade in residential area. Motorcycle police seen. Flag bearer, band and marching units in parade. Girls and boys dressed as Indians. Boys in colonial costumes. Pony drawn cart led by a man. A little girl and boy riding on it. Little girls in colonial costume. Groups of children in costumes of several lands. Old and new cars.
Charles Augustus Lindbergh at Roosevelt field in front of his plane Spirit of St. Louis. His mother Evangeline Lindbergh with him before his flight. Charles Lindbergh flies from New York to Paris. Crowd gathered to welcome him at Bourget Field in Paris. Charles Lindbergh with Myron T. Herrick, the U.S. Ambassador to France at his home. Myron T. Herrick waves Lindbergh' helmet.
Charles A Lindbergh (Lindy) and wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, in Nome, Alaska on their survey flight over the Great Circle route from New York to Tokyo, for use by commercial airlines. The Lindberghs pose in front of their Lockheed Sirius airplane, parked in the water behind them. (It is equipped with pontoons as a float plane.) Citizens of Nome are turned out to greet them. The Lindberghs cleaning up their aircraft. The couple is seen mingling among a large group of native Inuit eskimo men, women, and children, in indigenous dress, who turned out to see the famous aviator. Next, Lindbergh stands behind his wife, as she sits in the seat of a sled hitched to a team of dogs. The Lindberghs ride with the Inuit sled driver as the team of dogs pulls the sled over the frozen tundra grass. Later, they pose with three women dressed in furs. They also pose with several Inuit Eskimo women.
Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi meeting with Prime Minister Hussein Ala at Sa’adabad Palace (Tehran Province, Tehran, District 1, Taheri St, RC8F+FJ7, Iran), in northern Tehran, Iran. Large garden by Palace and Alborz mountains in background. The Shah of Iran seats himself in a chair, at a desk. The Prime Minister sits and converses with him. Shah of Iran reads several official documents and annotates one. A paper on the desk is labeled: "US News Report."
In live fire practice,during World War 1, two French soldiers walk forward and hurl hand grenades, as several others watch from behind protective barricades. The grenade throwers hit the ground as soon as they release them. Others duck down behind their barricades. New scene from atop a building in a town, an artillery shell is seen bursting and smoke rising near a building by a distant road. Two shell explosions are seen on a hillside and one releasing white smoke (possibly gas). French soldiers busy themselves at their fortified positions on high ground above a plain, while an officer slowly rotates a large finned mortar shell on its shaft, vertically. (WWI; WW1)
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