A 1941 Chrysler Plymouth car arrives at curb and former U.S. soldier opens door for his British wife and their child. They go up steps to his home, where his mother warmly greets her new daughter-in-law and baby. View inside home where the couple and baby sit with mother-in-law and family dog. The couple play with their baby boy, and they kiss.
Jet airliner American Airlines Flight 1 crashes into Pumpkin Patch Channel of Jamaica Bay in New York soon after takeoff from Idlewild Airport (now John F. Kennedy International Airport), bound for Los Angeles. Rescuers and the police inspect the area. The ruins of the crashed Boeing 707-123B on a marshy area and in the Bay. Skin divers board boats to head out and search for bodies. Some bodies of victims are carried away on stretchers.
U.S. Army Major General Hugh A Drum reviews cadets at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York. Cadets assemble for their first review of the season. They march on a path and on the inspection grounds. Major General Drum stands with other officers. He gives them the 'once over' as they march by in formation. The cadets in ranks.
Charles Lindbergh's poses next to his airplane, the "Spirit of St. Louis." Ground crew push the airplane, tail first, out of a hangar on Roosevelt Field, Long Island, New York. Its engine and nose are covered in canvas. Lindbergh shakes hands with an official. Ground crew top off the aircraft's fuel, by pouring several gallons into its tank from atop the wing. A man helps Lindbergh don his heavy flying coverall. The aircraft engine starts. Crowd surrounds the aircraft. Lindbergh climbs aboard and the "Spirit of St. Louis" starts its takeoff roll surrounded by group of people. Lindbergh makes a long takeoff roll, bouncing several times (once, quite hard) before breaking ground in a shallow climb.
A film titled 'By Request' of the Army-Navy Screen Magazine about the requests of U.S. Army soldiers fighting in World War II. A man places a few papers in place at the 'By Request' office of the Army-Navy Screen Magazine. Door window sign reads “Army-Navy Screen Magazine New York City”. The Women’s Army Corps (WAC) host reads the letter of a person. A woman places tomato slices on a bread and the cabbage leaves. She cuts the sandwich half and serves with a glass of milk. The woman eats the sandwich.
A film titled 'The American Road' depicts travel in the 19th century, before the advent of the automobile. A house in New York. A man and a woman on a horse drawn cart. A doctor arrives by horse and buggy to attend a sick person and speaks to a woman, at the door.. The doctor gets on his horse carriage. A man rides a horse drawn cart. They pass a church. A railway station. The man and the woman in the cart arrive at the station. A man at the station. The man and the woman get off from the cart. The man at station talks to the man who was on the cart. The man waits for the train. A railway track.
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