Vehicular traffic on a street in Los Angeles, California. Buildings on the streets. View of several residential buildings. Gardens in front of the houses. Pedestrians cross the road. Cars wend their way through pedestrians on street corner.
Street level view near the southeast corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street in Los Angeles, California. View facing north on Vine Street. A car towing a three-wheel motorcycle turns east onto Hollywood Blvd. Late 1940s and early 1950s automobiles driving on the street. Camera pans westward and other buildings are seen looking north on Vine, including the El Capitan Theatre at 1735 North Vine Street (now the Avalon Hollywood nightclub), the Ontra Cafeteria at 1719 North Vine Street (now the Redbury Hotel at 1717 North Vine), the Melody Lane cafe at the northwest corner of Hollywood and Vine, and the Harris & Frank store on Hollywood Boulevard. Brief view of a streetcar or trolley going west on Hollywood Boulevard. Street level camera view then shifts to the southeast corner of Ivar Avenue and Hollywood Boulevard, looking west on Hollywood Blvd. Theater marquee of the Admiral Theatre (later the Vine Theatre) is seen across the street at 6321 Hollywood Boulevard. Beyond it, looking west, is the Security Pacific Bank building at 6381 Hollywood Boulevard, and beyond that are the Warners Radio Towers for station KFWB atop the Warner Bros Theatre. Pedestrians walking on sidewalks, and cars and trucks on the street. Scene shifts to various elevated views of Los Angeles with a heavy smog layer settled over the city.
A view of shopping areas in Hollywood, Los Angeles California. A sign on a shop reads 'The liquor beer, coca coal, magazines and we never close'. Traffic on the Los Angeles street. Pedestrians and vehicles pass by. Hotel and shops on street. Building of 'Universal Pictures Company Inc' movie studio. A bus stands outside Universal Pictures Company. Interior of the bus. Cars parked in the background. A sign reads 'Main auto gate'. Bus passes by. A sign reads 'RKO Radio Pictures Inc.'. Posters near the sign of RKO (Radio-Keith-Orpheum) Radio Pictures. Advertisement for Walt Disney's 1950 Cinderella film.
Loren Mendell and Pete Reinhart 'Tough Hombres' set a new flight endurance record. Loren Mendell and Pete Reinhart before their flight in Culver City, California. Ground check for the Wright powered Buhl monoplane before the flight. Refueling gear and living quarters of the plane 'Angeleno' in view. Monoplane takes off. The monoplane refueled by another aircraft in flight.
John Cobb, a butcher, rides an ornithopter bicycle with wings in San Fernando Valley, California. John has a collar to flap wings when he raises his torso. The bicycle has a rocket to assist takeoff. William Modes helps him as he starts riding. Ralph Spergis lights the rocket. The heat of the rocket sets tail on fire. Tail sets John's pants on fire. He purposely falls down, yelling for water. John is caught in the collar wires and can't get away. The rocket breaks loose, which it was do after takeoff, and sets wings on fire. A man throws water from a bucket to extinguish John's pants. (William Modes later became a director at Northrup Aircraft Company. Ralph Spergis later became longtime manager at Agua Dulce Airpark. Ralph and William, at the time this was taken, were roommates in Santa Monica, both working as aircraft mechanics at Douglas Aircraft Company.)
Olympic trials in California, United States. Athletes compete to make it to the Rome Olympics as they participate in sprints, pole vault and high jump. Don Bragg sets a new record in pole vault of 15 feet 9 and a quarter inches. In high jump John Thomas sets a new record.
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