A documentary on Weather Bureau's Hurricane Warning Center in Miami, Florida. An aircraft in flight overhead. A routine report is sent by the crew of the aircraft to the hurricane center. The pilot, he co-pilot, the navigator and other members of the crew seated inside the aircraft. Weather conditions are observed and recorded. A radar operator working and looking for any unusual conditions. The information is transmitted to the center. Women working and typing messages at the center. A map locates Miami and information about weather conditions is circulated to other areas from Miami. A ship underway at sea. Men locating the position of a hurricane on a map. They discuss amongst themselves. The crew of the aircraft being instructed by an officer. An airplane parked at an air base. It takes off. Animation shows the position of the hurricane and the air movement. The information is circulated to people. A man reading news about the hurricane in a newspaper. A man and a woman seated at a beach. A sailing boat underway in the foreground.
Football practice at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado. A trainer holding a Mach-1 Falcon mascot. Buildings in the background. Players practicing for a match. A coach instructing them.
Opening newsreel slate reads: "Roosevelt inspects GA. Farm Colony." President Franklin D. Roosevelt is seen driving his 1931 Plymouth Phaeton car with hand controls, along a rural road on the way to visit the Pine Valley Farm Colony established by the Works Projects Administration of Georgia. In change of scene, camera shows a poultry farm with the farmer walking through broadcasting grain to feed the chickens. Another scene shows three farmers walking through and examining their crop of cabbages. Next, cattle are seen in a field. Scene changes again to focus on the President's car driving onto the the Pine Valley farms. A large number of the community are crowded around to greet him. Closeups of serious-looking school children watching the President. Closeups of unsmiling men in the group. Closeup of President Roosevelt at the controls of the car, with his personal secretary, Marguerite Alice "Missy" LeHand sharing the front seat. Two unidentified men occupy the rear seat. View of large number of somber community resident spectators, packed together near trees with whitewash partway up their trunks. Roosevelt maneuvers his car to the right, where spectators stand behind a rope line.
The Sunset Limited passenger train enroute from New Orleans to San Francisco, in 1915. The railroad train running on the tracks.
A Detroit,Toledo,and Ironton railroad train arrives and interchanges with the Chesapeake and Ohio at Greggs. The steam locomotive is pulling a passenger train. It continues northbound,crossing the Scioto River (out of its banks) and the film ends just before crossing the N&W at Glen Jean.
A steam locomotive, pulling a passenger train of the Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad arrives at a railway station in Michigan. Passengers get off the train. Curved railroad tracks in the foreground. Parked cars. A train pulls out of the railway station. People on a railway platform. Buildings and a water storage tank near the railway station.
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