Famous aviator Charles Lindbergh's trans-Atlantic route from New York to Paris, France. An animated map depicts the flight path and distance. Lindbergh’s path begins from New York, via Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, across the Atlantic, Ireland, England and then Paris.
U.S. Army pilot Lieutenant Cyrus Bettis gets out of his Curtiss R3C-1 racer airplane after winning the Pulitzer Trophy Race and setting a new world speed record of 249.3 miles per hour in the International Air Races at Mitchel Field, New York. He is congratulated by U.S. Army Air Service Major T. G. Lanphier.
Ground crewman manually pulls prop blades through as minature low wing monoplane, "Delgado Flash," made by Delgado Trades School, New Orleans, Louisiana, prepares for flight. Plane takes off, piloted by Clarence McArthur and is clocked at 207.02 mph, a new speed record, for planes in its class. Clarence lands the plane and kisses a girl. In separate clip, armament factory workers elevate the barrel of a 16 inch Sea Coast Gun in Watertown, Massachusetts. A man looks at a 2000 pound shell meant for the gun. (Shortly before outbreak of World War 2).
From " A Short Survey of The Film in America." On screen English text describing advances in film making in the early years of the motion picture. Description of the years 1908-1918 as pivotal years for American film makers DW Griffith, Thomas H. Ince, and Mack Sennett. On screen text describing DW Griffith's work, "The New York Hat." The actual film follows : Small town gossips scandalously link together the names of a minister and a girl when they discover that he has given her an expensive hat from New York. The turmoil abates when the minister produces the will of the girl's mother, in which he has been asked to buy the daughter "bits of finery."
Two men climb the Colgate Clock dial near Exchange Place in Jersey City, New Jersey to reset it back at the end of daylight savings time. A woman adjusts her watch while an overlay of clock hands is seen. A beggar wakes up while sleeping on a bench. He adjusts his alarm clock. The homeless man goes back to sleeping on the park bench. A bagpiper in Scottish Highland dress removes an alarm clock from his hat, adjusts it, and then returns it to his hat. Street sweepers with brooms and trash bins adjust their watches. A horse pulled wagon passes by behind sweepers. View of an old-fashioned radio. View of Napoleon Lebrun & Sons Metropolitan Life Insurance clock tower at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
An exhibit of 1955 models of Chryslet Corporation automobiles held outdoors on the grounds of a museum. Visitors view new models of the cars. Some are identified as Imperial four door sedan and New Yorker Deluxe models.
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