American inventor and electrical engineer Lee De Forest seen examining a vacuum tube. Exterior view of Lee De Forest Building in Hollywood, California, with sign on the building that reads 'Lee De Forest Laboratories'. A view of the buildings in Hollywood, including Brown Derby Restaurant (faintly in foreground), NBC Radio City-Hollywood building, Bullock’s Wilshire, and other offices and buildings near intersection of Wilshire Boulevard and Alexandria Avenue. Vehicular traffic on the street. Elevated Hollywood view showing Warner Bros. Hollywood Theater & Studio facilities along Sunset Boulevard, Warner Bros. Hollywood studios and sound stages (sometimes called the Warner Bros. Sunset studios), and the Hollywood Storage Co. building near Sunset Boulevard and Vine Street.
CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System) Studio building in Los Angeles California. Cars pass by. Wordings on the building read 'CBS'. A sign reads 'RKO Radio Pictures'. Main gate of the Paramount Studio in view. Aerial view of the buildings in Hollywood.
Coast artillery fire antiaircraft guns in Fort MacArthur, California. Men on a sea coast. Battery B of 63rd Coast Artillerymen, preparing antiaircraft guns. Flying targets being fired at and targets hit. Antiaircraft guns, mounted on turrets, placed in a line on the coast. Antiaircraft guns fired at flying targets by the coast artillery men. The flying targets blown into pieces. A few soldiers on the coast watch. More antiaircraft guns fire at targets, and hit the targets, breaking the record. A few artillerymen prepare tents at night.
Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Electra parked, with engines running, on wet ramp in front of hangar at U.S. Naval Air Station in Oakland California. In change of scene, Amelia Earhart climbs from cockpit of the parked airplane and, with helping hand, from Mechanic Bo McKneely, jumps from the wing to the ground. (McKneely is on top of the fuselage, refueling the airplane.) Earhart talks with her husband, George P. Putnam.
Louis Usabal paints different film actresses in Hollywood, California. American actress Janet Gaynor poses as Louis Usabal paints her. Margaret Livingston gives different poses. Louis Usabal paints her. Olive Borden adjusts herself and makes different poses while Louis Usabal paints.
Motion picture studios in Hollywood, California during World War 2 period. Cars driven on road in Hollywood with palm trees in median beside street. Street sign on corner reads "Los Feliz Boulevard" (between Glendale Avenue and Western Avenue.) A sign at the entrance of a building reads 'Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studio' (MGM). People walk through the Paramount Pictures entrance gate. People walk on street in front of MGM studio. MGM studio employees bulletin board detailing the MGM company investments in War Bonds and donations to the Red Cross. Banners along the board encourage employee participation, such as "To speed victory. To bring our men home. Our government asks that you buy War Bonds." A sign atop Paramount Pictures building reads 'Buy Bonds at Acct Office'. An air raid shelter building.
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