Waterfront near facilities of Norfolk boat builder, John H. Curtis, who perpetrated a hoax during the search for Charles Lindbergh's kidnapped son. (Curtis falsely claimed he was contacted by kidnappers who held the child on a yacht.) A wooden motor cabin boat is seen docked. The camera pans along the river past boats and a Security Storage building in the background. it focuses on the Curtis building and boatyard. A sign identifies it as "J.H. Curtis Boat & Engine Corp."
Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd's Antarctic Expedition. Two cameramen (Willard Van der Veer and Joseph T. Rucker) accompany Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd and his team on the expedition. USS Leviathan escorts sailing vessel 'City Of New York' from the New York harbor. Smoke rises up from the smokestack. U.S. Navy Admiral Richard Evelyn and his team gather around a table aboard the vessel. A dog barks aboard the ship. High waves rise at the sea. The supply ship 'Eleanor Bolling' underway at sea. A dog sleeps aboard the ship. Iceberg and ice pack in the ocean. Ice barrier 'Ross Barrier'. Men aboard the vessel observe the ice barrier through binoculars. A control meter. The ship being anchored. The men and dogs walk on the ice.
Boys devise home-made diving bell in Stone Harbor, New Jersey. A boy is made to wear a diving bell on the head by another boy, in front of a building. A few men and women watch them. Weights tied on to a rope secured to the boy's waist. Three boys on a boat in a water body. The boy wearing the diving bell goes down the water. The boy under the water. Fishes moving under the water beside the boy. The boy reading from a book under the water. The boy comes up from the water. The boys on the boat help the boy up from the water.
Mechanics during the final stages of work of world's largest conduit, in New York City, New York. Workers during the final stages of phone lines laying work on the shore of Harlem River. A giant cast iron pipe section is lowered by a crane on the river shore. Mechanics working with phone wires. A few men stand inside the pipe and discuss. Mechanics at work. The workers with the aid of an equipment lower the giant cast iron pipe into the Harlem River. A worker who went underwater comes up and is helped by another worker.
A man presents International Laurel Award to Milton Rackmil, President of Universal International in New York. He is voted by International film buyers. One of the men standing by Milton shows the award.
Visitors board and crowd the deck of the USS Wasp (CV-18) in June, 1945, near the end of world War II. The Wasp is about to depart again, for the Western Pacific, following repairs at Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington. Two U.S. marines are escorting two women, and showing them an F4U Corsair airplane on the deck. Some of the visitors look up toward the camera. The aircraft on deck have been arranged for this static display. visitors are seen departing across a gangplank. Views from deck of the Wasp, of Navy personnel on the pier, below. Camera pans across the pier where spectators still stand. A few people stand on the water side of a building. A large group of visitors coming up from the hangar deck. Civilians and sailors wave at the camera. Visitors leaving the carrier on the gangplank.
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