Preparation for 1984 summer Olympics in Los Angeles. A woman sits on a chair and talks over a phone. A plate on a desk reads 'Los Angeles Olympic Organization Committee'. A sketch of a cartoon and other photographs hung on a wall. A man speaks about the facilities which would be provided in Los Angeles during the upcoming summer Olympics. He mentions about language translation and currency exchange facilities. People from 150 countries will participate. Recreational facilities like Disney Land and beaches.
U.S. sailors in training at the Great Lakes Training Center, sit in an amphitheater, in a glade, as a band plays. Camera pans over the large filled circular seating area. The sailors all rise at a command, and salute the colors, as the National Anthem is played. They then take their seats, again. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Eddie Stinson and George Haldeman on a Stinson Detroiter in Jacksonville, Florida. The monoplane stationed showing legend on side 'The Stinson Detroiter'. Fuel tanks are put aboard the plane by men and fuel is put into tanks. George Haldeman with two ladies. Eddie Stinson looks out of the cockpit. The aircraft takes off.
Charles B. D. Collyer and Harry Tucker on a Lockheed Vega airplane named "Yankee Doodle"in Los Angeles, California. The plane in flight. It lands in Los Angeles, after traveling non-stop from the Atlantic coast. Side of the plane reads 'Yankee Doodle', single engine monoplane. Collyer and Tucker get out of the cockpit and stand.
Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh in Washington DC after his trans Atlantic flight. The ship Memphis docks at a harbor. Lindbergh is greeted by people. Scenes of a navy yard. The ship Memphis arrives at the navy yard. People wave. He walks out of the ship followed by other navy officials. He is seated in a car and other officials accompany him. Lindbergh is decorated by President John Calvin Coolidge at the Washington Monument. A large crowd gathers.
Activities at the Ford River Rouge Complex in Dearborn, Michigan. An aerial view of River Rouge plant. A line moves to open hearth furnaces where different types of steel are made. A rail road locomotive. An open hearth furnace. A huge crane on the tracks place scrap steel into the furnace. Burning charge in the furnace. An overhead crane carries a bucket over the furnace. Molten metal is poured into a mold. A worker takes testing sample from the furnace. He pours it into a small mold. The worker with a protective helmet over his head. The molten metal is poured from the furnace into ingot molds. The worker stirs the contents of the molds. An overhead crane lifts the molds from the cooled ingot. The ingot is moved to an oven called a soaking pit.
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