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Swimmers take part in the marathon swim and Sam Shields of Miami wins the race in New York City
The marathon swim around Manhattan in New York, United States. Swimmers grease their body to keep from getting chilled in the long race in cold water. The contestants dive into the water. A boat in the water. The contestants are fed from the boat which sails beside them. Sam Shields representing Miami, Florida, wins in record time of 8 hours 35 minutes and poses. ( Note: Sam Shields, reportedly a native of Louisville, KY, was a top competitive swimmer in his college days with the University of Miami.)
Colonel W.E. Easterwood presents a $25,000 prize to French aviators Coste and Bellontefor the first one-stop flight from Paris to New York to Dallas.
Film opens showing people assembled at a celebratory dinner, honoring French aviators, Captain Dieudonne Costes and Lieutenant Maurice Bellonte, who on September 1, 1930, flew their Breguet XIX aircraft,"Le Point d'Interrogation" (The Question Mark) non-stop from Paris to New York, and thence to Dallas Texas,landing at Love Field, Dallas, on September 4th,where they were greeted by 30,000 aviation enthusiasts. They are being honored by William Edward (Colonel) Easterwood, Jr., a Texas philanthropist and aviation enthusiast who had offered a $25,000 prize for the first one-stop flight from Paris to New York to Dallas,Texas. Colonel Easterwood delivers congratulatory remarks, and presents his check for the prize to the fliers. Closeup of the Easterwood check. Broadcast microphones are placed close to Colonel Easterwood and the fliers. Next, the fliers stand near the end of the event. Scene shifts completely to Costes and Bellonte with their aircraft, "The Question Mark, aboard a steamship, ready to sail back to France. Closup of the aircraft with large question mark painted on its side along with names of cities world-wide to which it had flown. Among these are: Hanoi; Calcutta; Karachi; Alepo; Athens; Rome; Paris; and New York. (Note: There is a display at the Frontiers of Flight Museum, Dallas Love Field, that includes the actual prize check as well as a panoramic picture of the "Question Mark" landing in Dallas, along with a plaque commemorating the event.)
Tactics used by the Nazis to prove and sustain their theory of racial supremacy.
U.S. Army training film depicts racial theories used by the German Nazi party. Clip includes mix of actual footage and actor portrayals. Actors portraying Nazi leaders Adolf Hitler, Hermann Goring and others at their office. Next scene is authentic footage of book burning by Nazi soldiers. Actor portraying prisoner in jail cell. Actual view of people in Germany migrating with their belongings. Several views of University students crossing a bridge over River Lahn, and buildings of Philipps University of Marburg in Marburg Germany during the late 1930s or early 1940s. View of news commentator speaking at microphone of BBC radio. Cover page of an edition of The New York Times as example of media banned in Nazi Germany. Actual footage of Goebbels speaking and addressing a group. Footage of champion African American boxer Joe Louis fighting in the boxing ring. His fights were banned to be seen in Germany. View of scientist Albert Einstein walking in a garden area outdoors and then on a footpath toward what appears to be Nassau Hall of Princeton University in New Jersey, USA. Remainder of clip shows dramatized scenes with actors, as follows: Catholic priest and a judge express fear from hatred spread by Nazis and oppose Nazi theories. They were put into concentration camp. A teacher in class disapproves Nazi theory of racial supremacy. Nazi soldiers arrest him. (World War II period).
Views of New York City and environs, especially Manhattan, in the United States.
Film begins showing location of New York City on a world globe, at the mouth of the Hudson River on the East Coast of the United States. It transitions to an aerial view of the Southern tip of Manhattan Island at the junction of the Hudson and East Rivers and slowly shows views moving Northward along the Hudson River. Piers along the Hudson are visible. Scene shifts to above those piers, looking South at the cluster of Manhattan skyscraper buildings, and beyond to New York Harbor, the borough of Queens, and Brooklyn, and beyond to Long Island in the misty distance. Next the skyscrapers are seen from Queens,across the East River. A large ocean liner is seen underway in New York Harbor, among ferry boats, barges, and tugboats. The Statue of Liberty is seen in the background. An animated map shows regions around New York and traces the Hudson and Mohawk valleys into the Great Lakes. The map is then overlaid with numerous lines representing transportation routes by lend, water, and air. View of Brooklyn Bridge, wharfs, and Manhattan skyline in hazy background. Seagoing freighters loading and unloading at New York's piers. A truck and other cargoes being moved by cranes. Passenger trains moving in the New York city area. View of the famous Beaux-Arts style Penn Station by architects McKim, Mead, and White, at West 34th Street and Eighth Avenue, in Manhattan. Train station interior crowded with travelers and commuters. Commercial aircraft taxiing at a New York area airport. Closeup of two young children watching the planes. Passengers deplaning from a large aircraft. Sign for Peruvian International Airways atop an airport building. A Swissair passenger plane being serviced. Passengers boarding a TWA Lockheed Constellation airplane. A family watching airplanes from an airport observation deck. The Lockheed Constellation starting its engines. A Douglas DC-4 aircraft taxis out and takes off, as several boys watch from the observation deck. Closeup of another group of boys watching planes from the observation deck. Aerial view of Manhattan skyscraper buildings from an overflying airplane. Traffic on streets at Times Square. The Astor Hotel at the left and the Times building straight ahead. Several other street scenes in Manhattan, crowded with pedestrians. A view residential apartment houses along Park Avenue. Views of African Americans crowding the sidewalks in Harlem. Views of "Little Italy" in the lower East side of Manhattan, where Italian restaurants and other businesses are seen. Chinatown is seen with some of the business signs in Chinese. A man of Chinese heritage reading a letter. Asian American children playing together in a neighborhood. New high rise apartment buildings are seen replacing older homes in parts of Manhattan. Mothers wheeling their children on sidewalks in one of the new neighborhoods.
Effects of Ford Model T automobiles on American life; scenes of early road and highway development and sightseeing trips
A man driving a 1917 Ford model T roadster along a severely rutted mud-filled street. A 1917 Ford Model T, one ton truck, trapped in mud. Frustrated driver gets out and kicks a rear tire. Road building crews at work with horse-drawn equipment. Road construction with large steam powered machinery. A 1917 model T roadster driving along a new smooth concrete road. Women making purchases at a sidewalk stand and placing them into their Ford Model T sedan. A doctor arrives at house of a patient, in a Ford Model T roadster. Americans driving Ford Model T cars in the National Parks circa 1920s. Cars driving past a giant redwood tree. Man in a Ford Model T stopped beside woods and feeding a bear in a National Park, as a Park Ranger stands nearby. Ford Model T driving through the tunnel cut in the "Wawona" giant sequoia tree, in the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias at Yosemite National Park. A 1918 Ford Model T touring car parked at a picnic site, with family sitting at picnic table nearby. Families with Ford Model T cars, engaged in outdoor activities, picnicking, and gathering wild flowers. Two men making their Model T into a shelter for overnight camping. Family picnicking at a beach; their Model T parked on road above. A man in a 1920s era swim suit carries a basket for a picnic to others in his family seated near rocks. 1920s or 1930s boy and girl children playing on a beach; picking up seaweed; and wading in the surf, near large rocks.
Pan American Highway Commission delegates visit Atlantic City New Jersey beaches and boardwalk
Delegates of Pan American Highway Commission relax in Atlantic City New Jersey near the end of a month long tour of the United States. Boardwalk and oceanside views and street views in Atlantic City. A woman stands on the boardwalk looking out at the beach and ocean, with a pier in the background. Group of young tourists in bathing suits gathered on the beach. Men launch a wooden rowboat from the beach out into the surf. A group of young people relax on the beach.
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