A film 'We saw it happen' about the history of aviation in the United States. In Dayton, Ohio: Houses seen along Hawthorn Street. A still picture shows the Wright brothers in their youth. View down Hawthorn Street with several 1940s and early 1950s cars parked along the Dayton street. Exterior view of 7 Hawthorn Street, home of the Wright Brothers. Interiors of the Wright home in Dayton. The workshop of the Wright brothers. Machines in the workshop. The "Wright Cycle Co" and Wright Museum (moved from Dayton to Greenfield village in Dearborn, Michigan.) A powered engine prepared in the workshop. Sweeping view of windswept beach area of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina where the Wright brothers conducted test flights in 1900-1902. Another view of Hawthorn Street in Dayton. A boy on the sidewalk. View of the 4 cylinder airplane engine first designed by the Wright Brothers. Narrator speaks of December 17, 1903 Wright Brothers flight. View of the Wright Flyer in flight overhead. Scene changes to aerial side view of Boeing B-52 Stratofortress aircraft in flight (this is aircraft YB-52,the second XB-52). The B-52 banks left and away.
The 40th Anniversary of the Wright brothers first airplane flight in the United States. A picture of Ohio Governor Judson Harmon presenting a medal to the Wright brothers and people in a stadium arranged to form a flag. A flag being raised. The Wright brothers and other dignitaries surround a flag pole. Aviator Orville Wright raises a flag. A gun salute in front of Air Material building. Aviator Orville Wright, General Quincy Gillmore and U.S. Army Colonel Edward Andrew Deeds present.
The 40th Anniversary of the Wright brothers first airplane flight in the United States. Still photo of the NCR Auditorium filled with people. U.S. Army Colonel Edward Andrew Deeds, aviator Orville Wright, the founder of Ford Motor Company Henry Ford and American inventor Charles Franklin Kettering present. A still photo of Orville and Wilbur Wright.
Decommissioning of Navy Service School in the United States. Barracks and a flag pole on a parade ground. Sailors lined up for a review. A flag raising and lowering ceremony. A flag at half mast. Sailors fold the flag. Officers, one holding the folded flag, and the president of the Ford Motor Company Henry Ford II review trainees. The trainees and the officers march off the field. A navy officer presents a flag to Henry Ford II. The trainees board buses.
Ford Vice President, Industrial Relations John S. Bugas signs a union contract in the United States. A group of men seated at a table including John S. Bugas and labor leader Walter Reuther. One of the men takes out a pen from a pocket and hands it over to another man who signs the papers on the table. The first man takes another pen out of the pocket and signs the papers. Others at table sign. The group stands and shakes hands. The group poses.
A power plant water tunnel construction for the Ford Motor Company in the United States. Men work inside the tunnel. Men move clay in the tunnel. They operate a hydraulic erector putting blocks of concrete in ceiling. Men push loaded and unloaded hand cars into and out of the tunnel.
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