'Grey Count' wins the Inaugural Handicap Race at New Coast Track in Del Mar, California. Movie stars watch the race from a grandstand. Horses leave gates to run on a dirt track. A man looks through binoculars. Grey Count wins the race by a good lead.
Mary Pickford marries Charles 'Buddy' Rogers in Bel Air, California. The Canadian actress (born as Gladys Marie Smith) and Buddy Rogers during the ceremony. Wedding guests witness the ceremony. Mary Pickford shake hands with her guests. Journalists take photographs. The couple being greeted by friends and relatives. Buddy Rogers eats a slice from the wedding cake. Mary Pickford holds a bouquet while standing beside her husband.
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.)
Amelia Earhart in flight above Oakland, California prepares herself before the first leg of a round the world flight. She poses with three man including the navigator Fred Noonan. She takes off from Oakland.
Shows U.S. aviatrix Amelia Earhart in conversation with officials in Wilmington,California. Amelia returns from a crash after her plane in which she was attempting a flight around the world, cracked-up at the Equator.
Three Soviet Airmen land on an airfield in San Jacinto,California after flying over the North Pole 6,700 miles without a stop from Moscow. Large crowd gathers at the airfield and greet their arrival.
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