American aviation pioneer Glenn Hammond Curtiss sits at the controls of his first aircraft. Two mechanics assist in starting the engines. The first Curtiss aircraft takes off. Louis Bleriot, who was the first to fly across the English Channel, sits at the control of his aircraft in France. Lincoln Beachey, the first man to perform aerobatics in an airplane, dives his first aircraft which is a Curtiss model. Spectators are lined at a fence and watch him flying.
People pass time in America by reading books, weaving pullovers, watching television. Woman seated at the base of a statue in an American city. 1960's cars and a buses in background. A man seated in a library reading at a table with book shelves behind. Men in a park playing board games; one smoking a cigar. Group of people lined up on a city street; pan of camera in close view across faces of American people of varying backgrounds, races, ages, and nationalities. A couple sitting in their living room on rocking chairs watching television. The man smokes a pipe while the woman knits. An African American family on the porch of a house near a road side in the rural south.
African American man fishing in a small pond from a simple wooden dug out canoe. A boy on shore of a large lake as three women pass by on water skis pulled by a high speed motor boat. Group of young men surfing along a beach. A family in a wooden motor boat enjoying a ride and a person parasailing. Divers diving from diving boards at a swimming pool.
Industrial development in America in various sectors. Labors in field, cloth, shoe and log factory. A woman seated a desk while workers build a structure visible in window behind. Man at construction site along city street. Group of men pass pieces of sod from a truck to workers below to lay sod grass on a hill. Men moving large tarps. A man in a textile mill moves large pieces of cloth to machines. A shoe factory line. View inside a saw mill as a large tree trunk is cut into lumber by a giant saw. A sculptor at work on a tall wooden sculpture. A man welds a pipe. Men at work on platform of oil rig.
Workers making spacecraft for the Gemini Space Program,USA. Astronaut getting ready to go into space. Scenes of launch of Gemini Spacecraft and view from press and media area with cameras watching liftoff of Mercury Atlas rocket. 1965.
Farm life in America. Scenes of farmers involved in various farm activities in the fields. They are seen using modern equipment and machinery. Man picks lemons or oranges from basket of cherry picker lift. Man using mechanized digger to form a trench. Scenes on a farm including young man with pitchfork moving corn from silo to truck. Man driving a Farmall tractor with workers helping in harvest. Woman harvesting a melon in a field.
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