Aerial view from airplane flying low over a dairy pasture outside San Jacinto, California, shows cars and people below, gathered around a parked Soviet Tupolev ANT-25 aircraft that landed there on July 14, 1937, after a nonstop flight over the North Pole, from Moscow, Russia. Closeup of local people standing in roped off area, looking at the airplane. Scene changes to Soviet pilot, Mikhail Gromov; Co-pilot, Sergei Danilin, and Navigator, Andrei Yumashev, meeting the Press, 20 miles away, on veranda at March Army Air Field Officers Club. Back at the landing site, local people walk under the aircraft wings and examine it closely. Letters "25ND25" are stenciled under the left wing. Back at March Field, American Air Corps officers shake hands with the Soviet flyers.
The first Albatross birds from Midway Island land in San Francisco, California after a 4000 miles flight. Two men take the birds out of a cage. A Pan American Clipper aircraft parked in the background. A man feeds the birds inside a cage at the Fleischacker Zoo.
'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.
Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga being scrubbed at dockyard in San Francisco, California. Crew members stand on the deck of the ship. Workers scrub the exterior of USS Saratoga. The ship gets its annual cleaning before the New Year.
Forest fire in Arroyo Seco Canyon, California. Group of people extinguish fire by throwing mud on it. Blazing fire as smoke rising. Houses and trees on fire. Doctors and nurses give first aid to wounded men. They bandage the patient.
Pistol movie camera used to trap criminals and record their movements in Los Angeles, California. Demonstration of a revolver fitted with a motion picture camera in it. Man points the pistol at would-be criminal and films the criminal attacker as he approaches the police man holding the combination handgun and camera. Police officer checks the film reel.
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