Roosevelt sees son in crew race', shows officers and cadets at the United States Naval Academy salute as President Franklin D. Roosevelt inspects the Academy in Annapolis in Maryland. He watches his son in a crew race as the Navy team goes onto defeat Harvard Jayvee Eight.
About 300 aviation industry executives, engineers, and government officials, pose for a photograph, May 22, 1935, on stands set up in front of a full scale wind tunnel at the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory, at Langley field, Virginia. They are gathered for the 10th Annual Aircraft Engineering Research Conference, sponsored by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). Among the notable members and officers of that Committee, seen in the gathering, is Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh. Scene shifts to the flight line at Langley Field, where three women walk in front of several parked executives' aircraft, including a Lockheed Vega airplane. Scene shifts back to the Aeronautical laboratory, where a Department of Commerce light airplane (appears to be a Weick W-1, N-567) is seen mounted for aerodynamic tests at the wind tunnel. Conference attendees line a steel walkway to observe the full-scale wind tunnel in operation. Airflows can be seen in the process. Attendees gather behind a protective screen to observe propeller testing, in the Propeller research tunnel. Attendees (including Lindbergh) are seen walking about, and conversing, outside the Lab. Next, Colonel Lindbergh is seen climbing into a Lockheed Vega airplane and then in closeup through window of cockpit. He taxis out for takeoff.
A woman gets into a car takes off her foot wears and puts on shoes and then along with a man drives a dual control car at Cleveland, in Ohio,United States. Produced by a person in his seventies, the car has two steering wheels so as to teach driving to learners.
A film titled 'First auto gyro mail lands on Post office roof' shows the Post Master General arriving at the Post office at Philadelphia in United States. Children carrying American flags march in a procession to celebrate the occasion. An auto gyro lands on the Post office roof as the Pilot delivers mails to Post Master General and flies back.
A film titled, 'Fast record set in outboard motor race by six-time winner' shows participants speeding their motor boats at Biscayne Bay in Miami to win Colonel Green Trophy. Six Times Winner Walter Everett from Tulsa, Oklahoma wins the trophy with a record timing of 44.93 miles per hour. Everett is seen with the Colonel Green Trophy.
A film titled, 'Fish by the million brings silver lining' shows people in large number catching Smelt on the banks of river Columbia at Kelso in Washington. People use fishing nets to catch Smelt during a record run and collect them in containers,sacks and boxes to earn a living.
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