Newsreel titled 'Rosemont wins $100,000 handicap in a photo finish' shows nearly 50,000 people gathered to witness Santa Anita handicap horse race in Arcadia,California. Rosemont wins the $100,000 handicap by defeating Seabiscuit and Indian Broom in a photo finish.
A film titled ' Outboards scoot and zip in coast Gold Cup regatta' shows an annual Gold Cup motor boat race in Long Beach,California. Gar Wood Jr. wins the race.
A film titled ' Giant plow made to uncover soil buried under sand ' shows three 90 horse power tractors pulling a giant plow capable of making a six feet deep furrow in Santa Ana,California. The plow uncovers soil from underneath a sand cover.
Newsreel titled 'Folding wings turn airplane into automobile' shows a plane with its wings folded in Long Beach California. A man unfolds the flying car wings with Security Airster written on them. He gets into the cockpit of the aerobile plane and takes off.
An amphibian automobile designed by George Powell at Glendale in California. George Powell seated in the mobile boat. Cars and bicycles travel with the automobile on the road. The amphibious automobile taken into Lake Willow. The auto boat travels with equal facility on land and water.
John Cobb, a butcher, rides an ornithopter bicycle with wings in San Fernando Valley, California. John has a collar to flap wings when he raises his torso. The bicycle has a rocket to assist takeoff. William Modes helps him as he starts riding. Ralph Spergis lights the rocket. The heat of the rocket sets tail on fire. Tail sets John's pants on fire. He purposely falls down, yelling for water. John is caught in the collar wires and can't get away. The rocket breaks loose, which it was do after takeoff, and sets wings on fire. A man throws water from a bucket to extinguish John's pants. (William Modes later became a director at Northrup Aircraft Company. Ralph Spergis later became longtime manager at Agua Dulce Airpark. Ralph and William, at the time this was taken, were roommates in Santa Monica, both working as aircraft mechanics at Douglas Aircraft Company.)
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