U.S. Army Air Corps PT-3 aircraft being used to control pest in Fresno, California. Two consolidated PT-3 aircraft on a field as a man in the foreground speaks about the usage of PT-3 aircraft equipped with dust mechanism to dust sulfur on crops to control pest. He explains how crop dusting works. Men load sulfur in the aircraft. PT-3 aircraft dusts sulfur on a vineyard as it emits a smoky trail.
College football game between University of California Golden Bears and Standford eleven, Berkeley. Game in progress. Crowd cheer in stand. Golden Bears win over Standford eleven by a score of 20-0.
A Czechoslovak politician meets Harry Warner in Burbank, California. Politician Jan Masaryk, the son of the first President of Czechoslovakia, says to Polish American studio executive Harry Warner that the U.S. screen industry is an important safeguard for democracy.
Celebration of the 98th birthday of American football player Amos Alonzo Stagg in Stockton, California. Men seated at a table and eating food. Stagg seated at a table. Men stand near a large birthday cake to celebrate Stagg's birthday. Stagg meets and shakes hands with people. Men applaud.
Drag Racing Championship held in California, United States. A large crowd gathers to watch. Racing vehicles parked on the ground. Driver Don Garlits is seen in his car: Wynn's Jammer. He makes a run at 206 miles per hour. View of drag chute deploying and stopping his car. Driver Mike Snively is seen donning his protective mask. Two cars race side by side on the strip. Brief glimpse from behind staff in the control booth, where Ray Francisco,is at the mike, with his wife,Bernie,beside him, as they mark elapsed time (ET) and speed of each racer. Snively narrowly beats Garlits to become day's winner and is seen accepting the winner's trophy and being kissed by a young woman presenting it.
Overview from a height of the sprawling Kaiser shipyard in Richmond, California, during World War 2. Cranes moving and workers in hard hats at work. Derricks at the waterfront and large hangar-like structures. Sections of ships' superstructures being assembled in open areas of the yard. Several large cylindrical fuel tanks. Several Victory ships tied up at a pier, being outfitted. One is the "Boulder Victory" which was built by the Permanente Metals Corporation, in Yard 1, and launched on August 31, 1944. It was commissioned October 12, 1944 as the USS Boulder Victory (AK-227).
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