Depicts contribution of Wright brothers in development of airplanes. Old French bi-planes fly in parallel. Orville and Wilbur Wright brothers discuss with other man. Glider dragged of hill flies steadily. Wilbur attaches wheel beneath wing. First heavier than air plane takes off at Kitty hawk North Carolina, on December 17, 1903. Headlines of news paper about the event. Wilbur Wright prepares to fly under French Government subsidy, at La Mans in France. Orville flies with a passenger in Fort Myers, Virginia for an Army acceptance demonstration in July 1909. Men on ground watch the sustained flight of the plane. Bi plane flies close to ground in an open field. Military officials near the hanger of the plane. Wright brothers inspect catapult rails. The plane towed out and put on catapult. Two men rotate propeller to start the plane. Men pull weight to catapult the plane. Wright flyer climbs and plane takes off.
A Ford Model A Tudor car circa 1928-1929 drives along a country road, past a mail box and turns, driving past a fenced farm. Cluster of farm buildings in background. Next, the car drives up to a farm building and the driver (a farmer) gets out carrying a bundle, that he takes into the house. A roadster convertible car, with its rumble seat removed and a large trunk installed in its place, stops in front of a house. A boy and a girl, on bicycles, ride past on the sidewalk, accompanied by a large black dog.The driver, a vacuum cleaner salesman, removes a demonstration vacuum from the car trunk and goes to the front door, where he shows the vacuum to a lady who answers the door. Change of scene to a 1929 Ford Town Sedan car arriving at the picnic area of a park. A little white dog jumps out as the door is opened, followed by a man and woman carrying things for a picnic. The woman, with others, prepares the picnic table, while a man tends a fireplace in the background. Young folks sit on rocks by a stream in the park. Scene shifts to a roadside sign reading,"Hunter's Old Spring Tourist Camp, Rooms-Cabins, Shower baths, Heated, Drive in, All Modern." View of the cabins in a grove of trees that have their trunks white-washed from the ground level to about 8 feet. Next, two women and two children leave a house and get into a Buick phaeton automobile, and drive away. Weekend sightseers in automobiles, fill the road leading to some attraction.
Common carrier buses and cars drive on a highway. View of a Greyhound Lines passenger bus as it drives on a highway. Girl and boy students board a school bus to reach a rural school. Students and bus driver step in and bus drives away.
Labor unrest and stone throwing during Republic Steel Strike. Debris on a partially barricaded road. An American flag strung across the road. Several demonstrators standing next to sign reading: "Republic Steel Strike." They, and cohorts on the opposite side of the road, throw objects at cars carrying workers to a factory. Police intervene with tear gas.
A pilot turning and tuning a radio crank of a U.S. Air Force BT-13 aircraft. Pilot handles sticks and throttles inside the cockpit of the aircraft.
American girls hand over a basket of fruits to a man on board a train. They wave as the train leaves the station. (World War II period).
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