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Various "firsts" in U.S. aviation history from 1918 through 1924; early history of flight and vintage flight scenes
Shows several aviation "firsts" accomplished by U.S. Army Air Service aviators in the period from 1918 through 1924. A close formation of biplanes in flight. President and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson chat with Major Fleet, Officer in charge, on the occasion of the first air mail flight, inaugurated on May 15,1918 between Washington DC and New York.The mail is loaded into the Curtis JN-4 aircraft. Pilot in the cockpit. The aircraft takes off and in flight. Air Service. Mention of aviators helping spot forest fires. Smoke rising from forest fires and mountain ranges. In 1920, U.S. Army Captain St. Clair Streett is seen with some of his Squadron who flew four De Havilland DH-4 aircraft 9,000 miles, from New York City to Nome, Alaska. Two of the men play with pet dogs. Their itinerary is painted on the side of one of the aircraft, along with the names of pilot and mechanic (C.E. Crumline and J.E. Long). In 1923 the first non stop coast-to-coast flight was made in the Fokker T-2 aircraft. . A sign on the aircraft reads 'Army Air Service non stop coast to coast'.First Lieutenants Oakley O.Kelly and John A. Macready board the aircraft, at Roosevelt Field, Long Island, New York, on May 2, 1923. Their Fokker T-2 in flight. Their arrival at Rockwell Field, on Coronado Island (San Diego) California. In 1924, Lt. Russell Maughan is seen boarding his P-1 Hawk airplane at Mitchel Field, on Long Island, New York, and taking off , bound for Crissy Field at the Presidio, San Francisco, California. His goal is the first dawn-to-dusk, coast-to-coast flight. Views of his P-1 Hawk airplane flying over Manhattan, New York City.
Mass troop movement of U.S. Army soldiers and tanks to positions in Europe during Cold War.
Scenes of American airlift techniques for mass troop and equipment movement during the Cold War. Map shows plan for movement of a full combat ready division (16,000 men) to Europe. Various USAF MATS (Military Air Transport Service) aircraft seen: Low aerial view of long line of C-130 aircraft parked on airfield. U.S. soldiers boarding long line of USAF airplanes. View of a Boeing C-135 Stratolifter taking off. Scenes of American soldiers reading and playing cards during air travel. Aerial view of three F-105 fighter aircraft in flight. U.S. Army soldiers exiting C-124 aircraft through large rear doors and loading trucks with equipment. A long convoy of U.S. tanks and armored equipment and troop carrier vehicles on European roads as soldier directs movement of the same.
High school students express their views about the navy and a boy interested in navy is interviewed in the United States.
A U.S. Navy recruitment film about high school students' interest in joining the United States Navy. The film is titled "The Navy?" An interviewer asks high school students what they think about the navy. The students are wearing typical mid 1970s fashions. Some of them have long hair and a "hippie" look. Some of the teenage kids say it is important to have a Navy and some say it is a waste of money and is destructive. A long hair teenager says that we don't need ships anymore. Several teenage girls express support for Navy careers. An African American boy standing in front of a school bus talks positively about a Navy career and how he doesn't want to be hanging around on the corner anymore. About the importance of the Navy and desire to join it students give varying answers. Interviewer discusses the Navy with a group of students. A boy interested in joining the Navy is seen playing basketball and watching television. His mother says that joining navy would be the best thing for him. He discusses about his life and why he wants to join the navy. The boy, who has long hippie style hair, is seen working on a car with a friend. He is seen jumping across the tops of railroad cars of a parked train. He throws a stone from a bridge, and is seen walking along deserted railroad tracks.
Workers cutting ice blocks from a frozen lake during the winter in the United States
A group of men work cutting and transporting blocks of ice from a frozen lake in winter. Teams of horses pull long saws across the frozen lake surface, creating a pattern of partially cut blocks, which other men then cut through using long-handled hand saws. Other men employ long poles with metal tips to dislodge, pry, and raise the cut blocks from the water. A town is seen in the far distance across the lake.
Lumberjacks work at a forest in Taiwan
A film shows the lumber industry in Taiwan during Japanese colonial period. Taiwanese lumberjacks at work in mahogany forest. One is silhouetted against the sky as he climbs a tall mahogany tree trunk devoid of branches. He descends using ropes. A supervisor watches as a lumberjack uses a long saw to cut on a tree trunk that has already been cut from the other side. Camera pans up the tree.and back down again as he completes his cut and the tree falls to the ground. The base of the fallen tree trunk is seen to be hollow. Views of other trees as they are felled by lumberjacks. Closeup of the stump remaining from one. A log cut from a tree is lowered by ropes. Glimpse of valley across from the forest. Closeup off a steam whistle blowing. Closeup of a steam engine driver and arm in motion. A long log being lowered by a cable. Other cables seen strung across a rustic work building from which steam is venting. The log is deposited on a pile of others. A steam driven cable pulls logs on a small rail car atop a small gauge track. A very large log is lowered atop those a;ready on the rail car. Men with long pikes help position the log. Smoke blows out of a narrow metal chimney. A train carrying logs on rail cars moves through the forest. Views of a steam locomotive pulling a train of cars carrying logs.
Russian Marshals Ivan Konev and Pavel Rybalco are greeted by a crowd in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
Leader of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Marshal Josip Broz Tito in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Marshal Tito is greeted and decorated by Czech President Edvard Benes in the Prague Castle (Hradčany, 119 08 Prague 1, Czechia). Cheering spectators on the sidelines as a car containing Russian Marshals Ivan Konev and Pavel Rybalko drives past. Russian officers in the car waving to the spectators. Czech girls waving flower bouquets. Crowds throw flowers at staff car. The Marshals review an honor guard accompanied by Commander-in Chief of Czech Army General Ludwig Svoboda. A building decorated with Czech signs that read “LONG LIVE THE RED ARMY” and “LONG LIVE MARSHAL KONEV” and “LONG LIVE GENERAL STALIN”.
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