A lighted signboard , "Life of Riley". Large crowd gather to see William Bendix. A board reads "World Premiere". A woman on microphone with a man. A car arrives. William Bendix comes on to the stage and waves. William Bendix cuts a cake surrounded by children. He acts as if eating.
New Curtiss-Wright aircraft production factory being opened at Columbus early in World War 2. Army officers and other VIPs inspecting the plant. Shows aircraft workers working in the plant. A new SO3C-1 Seamew aircraft equipped with fixed gear and wheel pants, is rolled out on the factory floor for the VIPs to examine. (Note: Curtiss SO3C-1 aircraft with fixed landing gear and wheel pants, were ordered by the British Royal Navy Fleet Arm, under Lend-Lease. The company and the Royal Navy called them the "Seamew." But, the U.S. Navy called their observation floatplane version the "Seagull," the same as the biplane it replaced.)
Cars covered with snow on the streets and on the Highways. A sign reads, "Cleveland, Corporation Limit." Shopping stores are seen. A street car is seen. Several people stand in the snow covered streets. People are seen clearing snow from a car.
Newsreel clip on the Chicago White Sox baseball team clinching their first American League pennant in 40 years in 1959. Clip opens with crowd filing into Cleveland's Municipal Stadium, which is decorated with a giant smiling Indian (the team's logo). Scenes from game: White Sox shortstop Luis Aparicio doubles into the right-field corner to score Bubba Phillips, who slides to beat a throw to home. (Note photographers standing just a few feet away from the plate.) Billy Goodman doubles to score Aparicio. Two fans in white shirts, smoking cigars, intently watch the game. White Sox manager Al Lopez, in dugout, waves a fielder over to a different position. Indians load the bases in the ninth inning. White Sox call on Gerry Staley to get final outs. Staley throws one pitch and Vic Power of the Indians hits into a double play, ending the game. White Sox players celebrate in the clubhouse, pouring beer on each other's heads. Player in hat does a goofy dance.
Aerial camera. A trolley loaded with an aerial camera pulls up near a plane and flight crew along with Lieutenant O S Reading lifts the cover off the camera. Camera loaded into the aircraft. An aerial picture taken from the camera covering 600 square miles at 25,000 feet.
Aviator Charles Lindbergh on an inspection tour of the new coast-to-coast express from Newark to Columbus. Lindbergh in the air mail aircraft cockpit as they fly over the Allegheny Mountains. He looks out at the grey clouds as they fly into a raging snow storm. Tree covered mountains. They fly over fields. Aerial views of landmarks in city in Columbus Ohio. View of airfield in Columbus. The plane lands at Columbus, Ohio after the test run. Colonel Lindbergh and his copilot, Robert S. Leroy (Bob Leroy), exit the plane and pose for the camera.
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