Spanish Head of State Regent of the Kingdom Francisco Franco in Madrid, Spain during World War II. Troops stand at attention in front of a biplane aircraft. People seated during a ceremony. Biplanes in a line in the background. Franco with officers at a table. He decorates Spanish troops. The troops march. Franco with other officers review the troops.
Spanish Dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja appointed as the Prime Minister after winning a revolution in Madrid, Spain. Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja hugs an officer. He comes out of a building with officials.
Flight of Cierva autogyro from Cuatro Vientos Aerodrome in Madrid, Spain. Men push Cierva autogyro onto runway at the Cuatro Vientos Aerodrome. A hangar in the background. Men work with the propeller blades. Captain Joaquin Loriga climbs into the autogyro. Engineer De La Cierva talks to Loriga. A man pushes the rotor of autogyro. Other men watch him working. The autogyro taxis on the airfield. The autogyro flies over field. The autogyro lands. Men rush over to autogyro. Colonel Marquis of Gonzalez Castejon and Mayor Herrera delegate talk with the pilot after landing.
Flight of Cierva autogyro from Cuatro Vientos Aerodrome in Madrid, Spain. Cierva autogyro lands at Getafe Aerodrome. Trees in the foreground. A crowd surrounds the autogyro. Men interact.
Flight of Cierva autogyro from Cuatro Vientos Aerodrome in Madrid, Spain. Cierva autogyro taxis at the Cuatro Vientos Aerodrome. The autogyro takes off. The autogyro in flight over a field. Men stand on the field. Autogyro lands on the ground. Men stand in front of the autogyro. A hangar in the background. The autogyro taxis and takes off. The autogyro lands on the field. Men walk towards the landing autogyro. The pilot in the cockpit of autogyro. The autogyro warms up. Men in the foreground. The pilot starts the engine and United States autogyro takes off. The autogyro in flight over the field. The autogyro crashes into ground. Men look at the damaged autogyro.
The Spanish Civil War. Republican (Government) forces moving forward to engage Nationalist (Rebel) forces in the battle of Jarama during the Spanish Civil War. Black smoke rising where bomb shells burst from Nationalist artillery on the heights of La Maranosa. Republican infantry moving across a field. A rebel shell bursting close to the camera. Republican soldier rendering first aid and bandaging the face of a wounded comrade. A Russian T-26 tank moving towards the rear on a dirt road, where troops carry wounded on stretchers and place them into field ambulances. Wounded being treated by medics. Wounded sitting on the ground. Two soldiers rushing a wounded away on a litter. Medic treating face wound of a soldier. Various scenes of wounded being treated and evacuated. Field ambulance driving away with wounded on board. View through trees of a building and one span of the Arganda bridge over Jarama river. Next, the entire Arganda bridge is seen with Republican troops dug in defensive positions. View of troops firing rifles from those positions, and Nationalist (rebel) shells bursting nearby. Defenders firing machine gun at rebels. More scenes of shells bursting and smoke rising. The Republican tricolor flag waving in the breeze as narrator states that the counterattack has been successful. Camera pans battlefield. Soldiers gathering up equipment underneath span of the bridge. Vehicles moving over the Madrid-Valencia road, with Republican forces in control of the Jarama valley in that area, for the time being. Scene shifts to barefoot farm boy using a mattock to open way for water to flow from river into irrigation sluice to water local crops. View of the sluice. Water flowing in the fields and farmers directing its flow. Civilian and military traffic on the Valencia road. Troops and a black and white dog riding on a T-26 tank. Closeup of Republican soldier aiming and firing his rifle. Water moving to irrigate parched farm field. (Note: Scenes from film "Spanish Earth," directed by Joris Iven)