Major events of the year 1959. Hawaiian hula dance performed by girls at a beach in Hawaii, celebrating the admission of Hawaii as the 50th state. A Hawaiian girl waving during statehood celebration. A volcanic eruption takes place on the island. Lava flows from the eruption of Kīlauea Iki Crater.
Documentary tilted 'History of Aviation' depicts benefits to mankind brought by discovery of aviation. A group of travelers on horses and bullock carts, in hot and dusty deserts travels from California to New York. A railroad train runs on railroad between California and New York. Howard Hughes' Lockheed 14 Super Electra Special, Model 14-N2 ( NX18973) seen in aerial views over Manhattan Island, New York City, with New York City skyline and skyscrapers visible. (scene filmed on July 14, 1938). Animated map shows ship sail towards Europe. Brief, distant view of a tall mast traditional sailing ship at sea with full sails deployed. A more modern passenger cruise ship or ocean liner with four large stacks underway in the ocean towards Europe. Howard Hughes airplane takes off in New York, bound for Paris, France.
Film describes American society in the 1930s and 40s, including World War 2. CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations) President John L Lewis and Father Coughlin speaking. Harlem street scene. Crowd entering a subway station in New York City. Newspaper headlines posted in China Town New York. Storefronts of Greek and Italian merchants in downtown New York City. Signs seen include 'Grande Deposito Dolio Doliva,' and 'Anthony Coulapides, manufacturer of high grade cigarettes.' Hebrew writing and star of David seen on side of building. Buildings with Spanish language signs in New York. A parade float with Virgin Mary depiction. Wide shot of a vineyard. View of a water wheel turning at a mill. Boys skinny dipping. 1930's and 1940's era cars on deep snow covered roads of an American town. Homes in deep snow. People recline on a beach in Florida in winter while on the same day in New Hampshire people ski, some pulled by horses. Skiers on slopes. People slip while walking across a street during a blizzard. A boy takes removes an apple from an icebox (early refrigerator). Dust storms in farm country of the rural Midwest during the dust bowl. Man races across a field toward a barn as a dust storm bears down on it. A farmer leads his horses out of a corral. A farm is destroyed by dust storms during the dust bowl. A family piles their remaining things on a farm truck and abandons their farm destroyed by the dust bowl. A poor family in a shack in the River Mississippi Valley area.
View of the Galveston Habor,Texas,Gulf of Mexico. African American workers carry cotton and put them onto conveyer belts to load into ships. 1935
A suspicious automobile being checked by Customs and Border Protection Officers at the border with Mexico in San Diego, California. Officers check the trunk of the car looking for contraband, illegal border crossings, or illegal drugs. A man is brought out from the trunk. An officer holds him with his hands at the back. An officer opens some luggage. A Customs and Border Protection officer at the US-Mexican border crossing. The officer stops a vehicle and talks to the people inside. Several vehicles behind. The police man stops another car and talks to the driver leaning against the car. Two men near the door of a vehicle. Officers examining the bed of a pickup vehicle. Officer displays a plastic bag, apparently filled with packages of illegal drugs. Some packages fall out as he takes them inside the building.
U.S. Navy ship USS Indiana (BB-1) at the Dry Tortugas islands, west of Key West, Florida in the Gulf of Mexico during the Spanish- American War. The USS Indiana is seen from a moving yacht. The USS Indiana lies at anchor taking on coal. Marines and sailors are seen on the decks. Workers hustling “King coal” into the battleship, with coal passers running back and forth on the deck.
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