A large number of automobiles parked in a field, crowd looking up at the sky during an airshow. Douglas Corrigan (famous for his wrong way flight from New York to Dublin, Ireland), standing with several girls in bath suits. A Piper J-3 Cub fitted with pontoons lands on a grassy field. Seversky EP-1 (civilian version of the military P-35 aircraft), with Jacqueline Cochran at the controls, taxis after winning the Bendix Trophy Race in 1938. Mr. Vincent Bendix congratulates Miss Cochran after winning the race. Several P-35s in different flight formations. Paratroopers jump from a ford tri-motor aircraft, views of paratroopers descending. Views of four aircrafts with smoke trailing, taking off and doing acrobatic stunts including inside and outside loops. Jacqueline Cochran at the controls of a Seversky EP-1 landing at Floyd Bennett Field, New York, completing a Trans-continental flight, after winning the Bendix Trophy race.
Six B-17 aircraft parked in a row in grassy field at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia. A B-17 aircraft taxis and takes off. Five B-17s in flight over land and water. Airplanes in different flight formations.
Police paddy wagon pulls up to a building and policemen unload donated toys. View inside a workshop where police volunteers repair and repaint toys to make them ready as gifts for poor children at Christmas during the Great Depression. Several boys and girls watch the men at work and view tables piled high with toys. Scene changes to streets of New York City filled with pedestrians, shoppers, and automobile traffic during busy holiday shopping season. View inside a large multi-level department store filled with crowds of busy shoppers looking at items in display cases, walking through, and riding escalators to other levels.
Demonstration of more than 7,000 troops on horse backs and Army trucks at Fort Riley, Kansas. A parade of mounted troops and mechanized units before high army officers.
Fiorello Henry La Guardia, Mayor of the City of New York, speaks with large group of citizens, including a number of clergymen (seen at front of auditorium) regarding matters related to the City Fire Department. In separate scene,likely in the Borough of Queens, New York City firemen give citizen volunteers a chance to experience some aspects of firefighting. Several citizens line up and learn how to discharge ordinary fire extinguishers, such as found in public buildings, like schools. Volunteers experience what it is like to wear protective firefighting gear. With help from a Fire Department Officer (in white cap) several volunteers try to control a high pressure hose and direct water onto a pile of debris set up for the occasion. (World War II period).
Interior of Mitchell Hall, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado. Cadets standing around the dinning tables. Jacqueline Cochran addresses the cadets. Cadets get seated around the tables, food on table.
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