The House Committee of Un-American Activities (HUAC) hears testimony from Hollywood Studio Heads, Louis B. Mayer of MGM Studios and Jack L. Warner of Warner Brothers Studios. . Cameramen shoot with cameras. Men work with recording machines. Louis B. Mayer poses, alone and then with attorney Paul V. McNutt, representing the Motion Picture Association of America. (MPAA). Members of the committee J. Parnell Thomas,Chairman, Richard B. Vail , John S. Wood and Richard Nixon sit while hearing. Committee chief investigator John E. Stripling questions witnesses. Three unidentified witnesses are seen briefly. Louis B. Mayer and attorney Paul V. McNutt prepare to testify. Jack L Warner , accompanied by Paul V. McNutt is sworn in as a witness. Eric Johnston, President of MPAA, is seen.
Aerial view of airfield at Oakland, California. Pilot, Bennett Griffin, is seen with his wife and child, standing beside his Travel Air 5000 airplane,"Oklahoma." Registration number:"N-X 911" is stenciled on its tail. Pilot Martin Jensen, saying farewell to members of his family in front of his airplane,"Aloha" (that finished second in the race). Aircraft being readied for takeoff. Starter with checkered flag stands ready as nine men push the Travel Air 5000 "Oklahoma, the first to take off, forward into starting position, with engine running. Next scene shows starter holding stopwatch and flag. He signals start with the flag. Scene shifts to the second aircraft to take off, the Goddard Special metal monoplane, NX5074, "El Encanto." Camera tracks as the airplane has difficulty breaking ground, skipping several times in a long ground roll. Suddenly, it veers off the the right in a crab, wiping out its landing gear and breaking part of its right wing as it flips over in a crash leaving it tilted on its left wing facing backwards. Some smoke is seen but quickly disappears. Men and rescue personnel rush to the scene. (Reportedly the crew was unhurt.) Next, the prototype Lockheed Vega 1 monoplane, NX913, "Golden Eagle," is making smooth takeoff. Navigator Gordon Scott waves to spectators below as the plane climbs out. Aerial view of the plane in flight. The "Miss Doran," a Buhl CA-5 Air Sedan, number NC2915, is seen next on takeoff, past photographers and spectators, and then airborne. Next, the Breese-Wilde 5 Monoplane, NX914, "Aloha" is seen taking off. It climbs out very slowly. Navigator Paul Schluter waves as they depart. Pilot Arthur C. Goebel and navigator, Willian V. Davis Jr. are seen next by their plane "Woolaroc." A woman wishes them good luck, with a bouquet of flowers. Next, men are seen pushing the "Woolaroc" and it takes off and climbs. Pre-departure footage of Pilot Gordon Scott and navigator John W. Frost, with friends, near their airplane, "Golden Eagle." (Their aircraft vanished in the Pacific.) Pre-departure footage of pilot John Augie Pedlar, navigator Lieutenant Vilas R. Knopie, and their passenger, Mildred Doran, whose aircraft, "Miss Doran," was also lost in the Pacific.
A group of British officers on an inspection tour is seen standing on a field in France, during World War 1. They include Field Marshal Sir John French the British commander-in-chief.They observe soldiers riding past on tractors, two of which are Titan models built by the US company International Harvester. The officers step back as the tractors pass through the mud. Next, they are seen loosely assembled near two staff cars. (A small dog walks about amongst them.) One senior officer walks to the second car and an aide helps him to don a coat. Field Marshal Sir John French then climbs aboard the lead car. Scene shifts showing British soldiers standing by as a Mark IV tank, with heavy mud on its tracks, passes them pulling a heavy towed howitzer field gun. The tank has writing on its front reading: "HMLS, Intimidator" (His Majesty's Land Ship, Intimidator) and it shows the number "154" on its side.
Troops drill at Camp John Hay in Baguio City, Philippines. View of the Bell Amphitheater (Historical Core, Camp John Hay, Baguio, Benguet). Igorot men perform a war dance. Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) cadets perform a drill on the Ateneo de Manila Intramuros campus in Manila. They march in uniforms with flags and guns. School band marches. Officers and a Jesuit priest (likely Ateneo de Manila Rector Father Henry C. Avery SJ) sit and watch the event. Cars parked in front of the Ateneo campus. An American officer decorates a cadet.
United States soldiers of the 3rd Infantry Division raise a large U.S. flag to cover a German Swastika emblem on top of the Tribune at Zeppelinfeld in Nurnberg,Germany, near end of World War 2 in Europe. Commander of the U.S. 7th Army Lieutenant General Alexander M Patch, Major General John W O'Daniel and other officers review the troops from the speaker's platform of the Nuremberg Zeppelin Field. At a ceremony General Patch awards Congressional Medal of Honor to Lieutenant Colonel Keith Ware, Lieutenant John J. Tominac,Sergeant Russell E Dunham,Sergeant Lucian Adams and Private Wilburn K. Ross.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. walking with organized Labor leader Walter Reuther, and African American leaders including John Lewis, arriving outside the White House in Washington DC. Press and photographers surround them. A. Philip Randolph speaks to the reporters. Mr. Roy Wilkins and Martin Luther King Jr., Walter Reuther, and John Lewis standing nearby. Representative of the Roman Catholic group commission speaks. Labor leader Walter Reuther speaks. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr makes a statement. Black American singers lead the crowd in singing "We shall overcome" in Civil Rights rally at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC. Thousands link arms and sing and sway together to the melody (during the March On Washington for Jobs and Freedom).
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