A new streamlined luxury train in Chicago, Illinois. Buildings in the background. Luxury railroad train on tracks in Chicago. Illinois. People seated inside the train. They read newspapers. Some people look outside the train. Bar in the train and it also serves as a dining room. Waiters serve food. African American bartender uses a shaker and mixes drinks on board the train. People seated at tables as men serve food to them.
Pilot, "Doctor" Valentine Newbauer, and an assistant loading cargo aboard his failed flying contraption "Stratogyro," intended to fly to outer space and the planet Mars. Pilot Newbauer wears heavy flying suit and rubber boots. Assistant helps him don a metal helmet. He shows his special gloves. Pilot enters the plane, tests his controls and cranks a starter. Engine starts and large rotors begin to rotate. The entire ornithopter-helicopter machine vibrates, but does not move. Pilot shuts it down and steps out, removing his helmet and smiling. Assistants tow the machine back toward a shed. Repeat views of rotors turning; pilot testing controls; and cargo being loaded aboard.
Stars and Stripes at Arlington Park in Chicago, Illinois. Edward F Seagram's Stand Pat wins the stars and stripes handicap. People gather in a large number to watch the race. Jockeys ride horses on the track. A man looks through binoculars.
Passengers are interviewed as they prepare to depart on the Zeppelin LZ 129 "Hindenburg" from Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey. One passenger smokes pipe. Close view of a lady passenger. A young U.S. Naval officer, wearing Naval aviator wings, poses for photograph. Huge tail fin of the German airship Hindenburg with the Nazi swastika emblem.
Airship LZ-129 Hindenburg in flight over Lakehurst Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, New Jersey. The Hindenburg Airship at mooring tower. The U.S. Navy dirigible, ZR-3 (USS Los Angeles LZ-126) is seen in background. Ground crews maneuver the Hindenburg's tail around a circular track to reposition it. A man stands on one of the Hindenburg's engine nacelles, by the propeller, as the ship is rotated. Ground crewmen pull on cluster of lines to maneuver the Hindenburg.
Crowd gathered outside offices of the Zeppelin Transport Company at a building in Lakehurst Naval Air Station, upon arrival of the German zeppelin dirigible, Hindenburg (LZ-129) following its flight from Germany. A commercial bus is parked ready to transport passengers from the Hindenburg. A photographer sits on the bus roof. Crowd listens to Dr. Hugo Eckener, of the Zeppelin Company, who just arrived on the Hindenburg. After speaking, Dr. Eckener struggles through the crowd to enter the office. Sign overhead reads, among other things, 'German Zeppelin Transport Co' and 'American Airlines Inc'. Arriving passengers leave the office and make their way, through the throng, to the bus. Several speak to reporters on their way. The name: "Pulion and Shirla Bus Company, Inc." is painted on the siide of bus, as well as lists of places it stops, including:Lakewood, Point Pleasant, and Madison Square Garden.
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