African American children compete during a water-melon eating contest in Oakland, California. Children eat slices of melons placed on benches. They race forward to the benches. A bench tips and some fruit falls the ground. Close up of a young child eating a slice of watermelon as fast as he can.
Black Panther Party members sing and chant "No more brothers in jail" and "No more Pigs in our community" outside the Alameda County Court House building in Oakland California. Members join in chorus. Helmeted police officers come out of the courthouse and take up defensive positions backed against a granite arrives to maintain law and order. Singer chant "The revolution has come, time to pick up the guns." African American man speaks in his office for the rights of black Americans. Black panther party members march, saluting the 'black power' fist salute as they march. Black Panther members gather together with Peace and Freedom Party members (Peace & Freedom party) to talk about civil rights and government, and to demonstrate together for release of Black Panther leader Huey Newton. "Free Huey" signs seen. Black Panther members and hippies talking. Book titled 'Venceremos' by Che Guevara is shown leaning on window beside speaker.
Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Electra parked, with engines running, on wet ramp in front of hangar at U.S. Naval Air Station in Oakland California. In change of scene, Amelia Earhart climbs from cockpit of the parked airplane and, with helping hand, from Mechanic Bo McKneely, jumps from the wing to the ground. (McKneely is on top of the fuselage, refueling the airplane.) Earhart talks with her husband, George P. Putnam.
A U.S. Navy training film about loading the cargo at naval terminal port, the Naval supply center at Oakland, California. Ships at the port. Cranes and loading net near the ship. Cargo accumulated to be loaded on the ship. A checker signs the delivery and cargo is delivered by a fork lift. A hatch attender signals and cargo sling is lifted up by gantry cranes at deck sides. The cargo is secured by beam cramps and steel straps on the ship. Pontoons cover the cargo. The ship ready to go to the sea. Last check by stabile guage and engineer computing device. Before going the necessary papers are checked like hatch list, statement of cargo. The captain sees slowage plane which gives the information about quantity, location and type of cargo on the ship. Buffering line and handing before shipment starts.
A training film of the U.S. Navy in the United States. Cargo at Naval Supply Center in Oakland, California. Freight delivered by rail to terminal classified yard. Motor trucks carry cargo to loading and storage area. Barges also deliver cargo. Trains assigned for particular delivery. Lumber loaded at storage area. It is sealed, moved and checked by mechanized equipment and workers at a terminal.
Scenes of Amelia Earhart taxiing her Lockheed Vega 5B airplane to the ramp, at Oakland Airport, on January 12, 1935, having left Wheeler Field, Honolulu the day before. This completed her solo flight from Honolulu, Hawaii (the first person to successfully accomplish such a transpacific flight). Crowds her airplane as she taxis in, and parks near a hangar of the U.S. Naval Air Station. Amelia stands in the cockpit of her airplane, holding a bouquet of flowers, as crowds mill about on the ramp beneath. Change of scene shows Amelia standing on a steel platform, of the airport tower, with her husband, George Putnam. Closeups of Amelia.
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