An early helicopter being tested at facility of the P-V Engineering Forum (later the Piasecki Co.) in Roxborough, Pennsylvania. Pilot attempting tethered flight in a one-place stripped prototype of the P-V2 helicopter Men stand by side of the helicopter as the pilot sits in the framework cockpit. They maintain hold on the landing gear of the helicopter as the pilot experiments with the controls and familiarizes himself with the helicopter's response. A long tethering rope snakes out along the ground near the helicopter. The pilot succeeds in hovering the craft a foot or two above the ground.
Double deck ferry boat with sign painted on front reading,"Myers Excursion." Long bumpers extend from top deck to waterline all around the boat. "Wm Myers" painted on side of first deck. Newly arriving immigrants to America aboard ferry docks at Ellis Island. Gangboard placed for passengers. Immigrant families debark from the ferry.
Athletes walk along a rope at a height of 75 feet in New Jersey. Men walk along the rope with long poles. Crowd watches the show as one man is blindfolded to walk along the rope. In France, a former trapeze artist walks on his hands and covers six miles a day.
A film titled 'Louis And Farr Hold Postmortem On The Big Fight'. Joe Louis with a bruise under the eye talks about his win in the boxing match against Tommy Farr in Newark, New Jersey. Tommy Farr gives a loser's version of the encounter in Long Branch in New Jersey.
Huge crowd of communists gathered at Union Square in New York City. The communists and sympathizers carry banners. Some of the banners read: "Long Live the Soviet Union"; and "Food workers defend the Soviet Union"; and "Organize against imperialist war - Join Communist Party"; and "Join International Workers Order"; and "Stop Evictions"; and "Smash Doak's Deportation Plan" (in reference to efforts by Secretary of Labor William N. Doak, through the Bureau of Immigration, to identify illegal alien immigrants and deport them in order to free up jobs for citizens during the Great Depression.) The Police disperse the crowd.
Annual battle with paper bag 'grenades' and ripe tomatoes at Long Island University. Flour seen rising in the air. Freshmen tear shirts and snatch pants during hazing ritual.
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