The Motion Picture Industry Council, including the Association of Motion Picture Producers, Screen Actors Guild, Screen Directors Guilde, Screen Writers Guild, meeting to prepare comments to the House of Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), in Hollywood, California. The meeting to draft a letter to Congressman Woods of the HUAC Committee. The chairman of the council, Allen Rivkin, speaks from his notes about the "clear and present danger" to the United States by the threat of communism and subversive elements, and Hollywood's support for stopping the "International Communist Party conspiracy." Association members look on, including Hollywood actor Ronald Reagan.
A Christmas parade in Hollywood, California. Well decorated floats move past large crowds in a street. A girl aboard a float. Hollywood stars ride past the crowd on horsebacks. Actors wave to the cheering crowds. A replica of the Statue of Liberty on a decorated float.
Celebrities participate in a Christmas parade in Hollywood, California. Lights read “Hollywood’s Santa Claus Lane”. Men on horseback carry flags, move past a large crowd during the parade. Hollywood stars aboard decorated floats as they move past the crowds. Young star Mickey Rooney rides atop a float, removes his hat and waves it around acknowledging the parade audience. Tom Mix (Thomas Edwin Mix) rides by on his horse Tony II as he waves to the cheering crowd. People cheer as ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and his mannequin Charlie McCarthy ride in the front of Santa's sleigh atop a float. Santa Claus behind them waves to the crowd.
A stratogyro during its maiden flight in Hollywood, California. Men load bags aboard the stratogyro contraption as they prepare for the maiden flight of the early flight design twin blade helicopter that looks like an early flight combination of an airplane and a helicopter. Pilot Newbauer is helped to put on his cylindrical helmet. He gets into the cockpit and looks out from the window. The pilot tries to take off the aircraft but fails. Men push the plane back in a shed.
A CBS Playhouse Radio Broadcast recording in Hollywood, California. Vocal Gospel group The Charioteers sing on a stage. They do several takes of the song "Oh, Dem Golden Slippers". Close-ups of members of the group including Billy Williams (lead tenor), Eddie Jackson (second tenor), Ira Williams (baritone), Howard Daniel (bass). A crowd applauds.
Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Electra parked, with engines running, on wet ramp in front of hangar at U.S. Naval Air Station in Oakland California. In change of scene, Amelia Earhart climbs from cockpit of the parked airplane and, with helping hand, from Mechanic Bo McKneely, jumps from the wing to the ground. (McKneely is on top of the fuselage, refueling the airplane.) Earhart talks with her husband, George P. Putnam.
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