A trip to see giant Sequoia Trees or "Sequoia Washingtonia" Giant Forest trees in California's Sequoia National Park. A motorcade of tourists leaves a city hotel for a trip. Open top convertible cars drive through mountainous countryside on dirt roads in California. In the old Gold Rush town of Mariposa the group stops and enters the Mariposa County Courthouse, a mortise-and-tenon Greek Revival courthouse and California's oldest court of law. Sign over entrance reads 'Erected 1854'. A car or vehicle tunnel through a giant Sequoia Tree.
A film about state parks during the Great Depression in California, United States. A young toddler child seated under a tall Redwood tree at Redwood State Park. A child sits on a man’s lap under a Redwood tree. A sign reads ‘California State Park System STOP READ California Redwood Park’. Trees in an open field. People enter through a gate in the park. A sign reads 'Old lodge Camp'. Civilian Conservation Corps men clear undergrowth. A worker levels wet concrete. They cut and process lumber. CCC men build bridges.
The Rose Bowl game of college football at the Rose Bowl stadium in Pasadena, California. The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and the University of Southern California (USC) compete in the Rose Bowl Game. The USC team wins the game. Spectators cheer the players.
Officials load sacks of mail from a truck, into a Boeing model 40 airplane at an airport in California. The pilot stands by the airplane, wearing a seat-pack parachute. The fuselage of airplane has logo of the State of California painted on it. Several cameras on tripods stand beside the tail of the airplane. Formations of U.S. Army DH-4 airplanes in flight over California.
Looking down on DeLong pier in Sattahip, Thailand. A ship is at the far side of pier. A truck coming down the pier towards the ship. Looking down the DeLong pier, two men are carrying a large basket down the pier next to a parked automobile. The truck backed up on the pier and cargo is being off loaded from the ship onto the truck. Some men are on the pier next to the truck. Others are in the truck. Pallets of 500 L bombs being off-loaded from the ship to the truck. Thai man works in the truck removing straps from the pallet. Work is being done at the DeLong pier at Camp Vayama, Sattahip. Another pallet of bombs being loaded into a truck on the pier. Off-loading of bombs to the truck on the pier.
Huge single 8-foot diameter tire on the XB-19 bomber is seen rolling over airfield ramp at the Douglas aircraft company Clover Field in Santa Monica, California. Douglas engineers walk along beside the B-19 aircraft as it is being towed. U.S. Army Air Forces test pilot, Major Stanley M. Umstead, stands with a Douglas Aircraft Company executive, in front of the XB-19 wheel. A mechanic is seen on an engine nacelle, looking down over the propeller.The XB-19 is towed into position. View of the empennage, with rudder slightly turned. The airfield is crowded with Douglas company employees out to watch the aircraft's first flight. Baggage being loaded on the aircraft. Engines start and the XB-19 taxis and takes off and does not raise its landing gear. The XB-19 in flight,with landing gear still extended, seen from a chase airplane. It departs the coastline. View from beneath the XB-19 as it cruises, at low speed. The XB-19 coming in for a landing at March field, Riverside, California. The pilot rounds out high and porpoises a bit until touching down on main wheels, and slowly lowering the plane onto its nose wheel. The XB-19 rolls out on the runway showing full flaps. A crowd has turned out to watch the aircraft's arrival.Newsmen and photographers gather as the crew stand on the ramp. Major Umstead, with cigar in his mouth, is interviewed.
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