Dr. Eduard Benes, former head of the Czechoslovakian government talks with others and enters hall at University of Chicago. A man helps with information. They see stones on display of different ages. Proceeding in the gallery and see portrait of Egyptian sculpture. Dr. Benes smiles during talk.
Woman working on a sewing machine while riding attached to a series of bicycles in Chicago Illinois. The bike includes multiple riders including children, and one rider elevated atop the woman using the sewing machine, and another rider behind. Charles Steinhauf riding bicycle on the road while another boy riding a uniquely designed bicycle follows. A man on bicycle which is raised very high with buildings of Chicago in background. All the cyclists moving in a group. Front cyclist shows some tricks.
A man reins War Admiral, the horse in Lexington, Kentucky. He poses in front of camera. War Admiral eats grass and running on the field. A man goes to catch him.
West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt arrives in car at the White House, Washington DC. He discusses important issues with United States President John F Kennedy in the Oval Office. Brandt addresses a press conference.
Scene of a wall at the Union League Club in Chicago, Illinois. With the Great Depression easing, some of the club members realize that some stock certificates and bonds now have value, that had been affixed to the wall as wall paper. A man steams the bonds so they can be removed. Elderly men examine the bonds that now have value. Men clipping coupons. From a 1961 newsreel showing events 25 years earlier.
American aviator and businessman Howard Hughes having lunch at a restaurant in Chicago on May 14, 1936. Other people sitting and standing behind him. Hughes stands up from his seat. View of propeller on his Northrop Gamma 2G airplane being started. Hughes has his goggles on his head and takes off toward California. View of Union Air Terminal (2627 N Hollywood Way, Burbank, CA 91505, United States) in Burbank, California. Hughes steps out of plane in Los Angeles after 8 hours flight. In next scene, aviator Amy Johnson, CBE, wife of Jim Mollison, emerges from her Percival Gull Sixplane. G-ADZO, in Cape Town, South Africa on May 7, 1936 after a record-setting four day and sixteen hours flight from London. A large crowd waits to see her. People greet her with flowers. Johnson is seen among the large crowd and smiling and waving to the crowd. Scenes in clip are from a 1961 newsreel recounting events roughly 25 years prior.
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