The history of famous airplanes. Aviators Edward F Schlee and William S. "Billy" Brock at Curtiss Field in New York, United States. An aircraft parked on the airfield. Brock and Schlee stand beside the aircraft. Pilot Brock's head protrudes from the pilot's compartment of the airplane. 'Miss Wayco' painted on the nose section of the airplane. The pilot waves towards the spectators. Stinson monoplane model, 'Pride of Detroit' aircraft flown by the two men. The aircraft takes off. The two men stand beside their airplane at Harbor Grace in Newfoundland. Men work on their aircraft. A tarpaulin lying over the top of engine for protection. Men pour fuel in the wing tanks from five gallon containers. A man works on the engine. Spectators gather around the airplane. The aircraft takes off from Newfoundland. Spectators perched upon a hill nearby.
New cars being offloaded from a ship at a port. Seaman and dock workers watching over railing of freighter, The "Chesire" with home port of Liverpool England. Closeup of the ship, Tara Maru, with home port Osaka, Japan. A Greek freighter in port. Passengers in rapid transit train traveling beside super highway of many lanes in the United States. View of car and truck traffic on busy highway. A Boeing 727-100 airliner and other passenger aircraft around runways and on tarmac at a civilian airport. Glimpse of various late 1960s and early 1970s cars and trucks on crowded section of highway during heavy traffic. People boarding a bus. Logs, steel tubes, and bulk cargoes being moved. A truck full of lumber. Cargo being loaded on an airplane. A cargo ship passing under the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco California. Bureau of Census workers compiling data using early computers, with views of keyboards and tape drives. Bureau reports being placed in envelopes and mailed. Factory workers carrying lunch boxes. Men in business suits carrying brief cases. Entry gate of a prison, with view of permiter fencing and guard tower visible. View upward from inside the prison wall, with barbed wire atop the fence. A court building.
United States Service academies hold graduation ceremonies in the U.S. At West Point, Annapolis, U.S. Army cadets of academy and officers gather for graduation ceremony. Cadets come to an officer, shake hands and receive diplomas. At U.S. Naval Academy, naval cadets receive diplomas and celebrate. The cadets of U.S. Air Force Academy march and sit in chairs to attend the graduation ceremony. In New London, Connecticut U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson addresses graduates of the Coast Guard Academy and says that their war potential is far superior to that of Russia.
On Election Day, November 7, 1944, in World War 2, Americans are seen waiting patiently to vote. They stand in a long line extending down a city sidewalk next to brick and stone buildings. Views of several persons in the line. Scene shifts in flashback to the election of Woodrow Wilson, in 1912. Four men on horseback arrive at a polling place. Another travels to vote, in his 1910 Ford Model T truck. Change of time and place shows farmer arriving by horse-drawn wagon and walking to polling place past 1930s car and truck. A fully laden truck stops at a rural gasoline station, temporarily serving as polling place. American town residential street scene in the 1930s. Citizens gathering to vote at a polling place set up at a laundry shop, in the Bronx Borough of New York City. Views of various places in the United States, serving as polling places. Americans seen waiting to vote at various places, in the 1944 national election. Among the sites shown is Bridgeport Central High School, built in 1916, (which later became Bridgeport City Hall), at 45 Lyon Terrace in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Persons in various places, registering to vote, including actor Lewis Stone, actress Esther Williams, and USO entertainer, Bob Hope. Voter closing curtain behind him as he votes in a voting booth. Views of voters' feet, below curtains, as they vote. Various types of boxes. Newspaper headline speaks of the large voter turnout in millions during the 1944 election. Shipyard workers at end of their shift, are seen heading to the polls to vote.
Paper print. Early motion picture made in the United States. Dramatization depicts: men and women in house, talking. Man holding a document shares good news. Next scene is at a dock as the man boards a large masted sailing ship along with others. They work aboard ship. The ship takes on water and sailors and captain leave in a rescue rowboat or tender, as man and woman remain on ship. They build a raft and are seen at sea. They make it safely to shore, by large rocks. The woman is captured by renegade sailors and placed in their boat. Her companion saves her while the renegades are asleep, and rows her away to safety aboard a passing ship. Back home again, everyone celebrates the birth of a baby.
Paper print. Early motion picture made in the United States. Dramatization : Snowy day. Woman is accosted by two ruffians, and rescued by policeman, as newsboy watches from doorway. Inside a modest house, Santa Claus talks with an angel holding an illuminated star. The woman and her husband carry christmas bundles, to door of newsboy's house, as policeman watches. Inside, the newsboy tries on new clothes.
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