German Zeppelin Hindenburg (LZ-129) in flight over New York. Manhattan Island and New York City skyline seen below. Skyscrapers like Empire State Building visible. Hindenburg airship flies over New Jersey. Identification "D-LZ129" painted on its side. Swastika on tail of airship. Zeppelin arrives at U.S. Naval Air Station, Lakehurst ,New Jersey. Zepelin discharges liquid ballast. Docking crew (primarily U.S. sailors) awaits on the ground. Landing lines are dropped. Large number of ground crew grab the lines. Hindenburg crashes engulfed in flames. Crew members rush to the burning zeppelin and help survivors emerging from the airship cabin. Smoke rises due to fire. Burning skeleton of zeppelin is seen.
Night view of Los Angeles. Neon signs for peep shows and dancing girls seen on buildings. Men stand in front of a sports wear shop and look at clothing in store windows. Cars move on streets. View of the "State Theater" movie theater with advertisement for film "Bonnie and Clyde" on the marquee. Aerial view of the city at night.
Opening scene shows muzzle of a 10-in coastal defense gun as it rises on its disappearing carriage. The following inscriptions are etched into the end of the barrel: "12IV No.28 ORD Dept. U.S.A. M 1895 Watervliet Arsenal 1899." This gun is installed on an M1901 disappearing carriage at Battery Worth, Fort Casey, Coupeville, Whidbey Island, Washington. View from the side, as the gun rises from below the battery and fires. Shell raises a great splash near a target flag in the water. Views from different locations around the gun as it fires several times. (World War II period).
Marshal Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia arrives in the United Kingdom. Tito disembarks from his yacht Galeb (Seagull) to a smaller ship on the Thames River. He is greeted by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Foreign Minister Anthony Eden. Explosion of a photographer’s magnesium flare near 10 Downing Street. Churchill and Tito inside 10 Downing Street. They pose and shake hands.
Scenes in historic district of Charleston, South Carolina. Two women enter a building. View of a church. Pedestrian and automobile traffic on street. Iron gate reads 'R.G. Rhett No 147', identifying the home of R. Goodwin Rhett, who held important commercial and political positions, including: President of the People's National Bank; Mayor of Charleston; and President of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Two women exit through the iron gate at Rhett's home. A man is seen sitting and walking in the gardens around a house. He enters the house. Old-fashioned, leafy narrow street with two story houses. Cars in front of the houses.
5 people dead and 20 hurt in head on crash of passenger trains. Wrecked train cars seen after two Central of Georgia passenger trains ran into each other near a swampland curve of Ogeechee, Georgia. The accident killed five crew members due to explosion of boilers and twenty others were hurt. Rail cars and twisted metal seen at the site of the collision. Executive cars seen on their sides, one with a large hole in the rear side. A Central of Georgia crane loads train wreckage into a waiting Central of Georgia open railroad car.
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