Newsreel titled Big Top - Celebrities join in heart fund benefit. Mrs. Impelliteri, chairman, heads the fund raiser show at Madison Square Garden in New York. Various stage and radio artists and sports persons like Lauritz Melchior, Jerome Collins, Jack Dempsey, Weary Willie clown Emmett Kelly and Dorothy Kilgallen lend their talents to raise funds for the heart foundation. Artists dressed as clowns entertain the audiences. Female artists sitting on elephant back perform acrobatics. Jimmy Durante laughs at an act. Celeste Holm rides on an elephant Male artists perform acrobatics as they hang from swings. The show raises a total of 190 thousand dollars for the heart fund.
Scenes on and around the Mall in Washington DC, including the Smithsonian Castle Building, museum of natural history, and other buildings.
Official visitor talks to Officer and shows identification to him . They board the boat called 'Warden Johnston' and speak to the officers as they take down notes. Boat sails across the San Francisco Bay in California. As the boat nears an island a chimney and a tin roofed building with ALCATRAZ written on it is seen.
Mexican painter Diego Rivera sketches and paints the Detroit Industry Mural at Detroit Institute of Arts in United Sates. He stands on a scaffold and paints the mural. Partially completed sections of murals are seen.
Film starts showing view from inside a U.S 8th Air Force B-17 flying fortress bomber going through clouds of black flak from German anti-aircraft fire over Kassel, Germany during World War 2. View from another airplane of bombs falling from a B-17. View from a bomber of bombs bursting on the ground with heavy smoke rising. More views of flak clouds. A B-17 is truck by anti-aircraft fire has flames coming from its right wing. Crew members are seen bailing out of the plane, as it slowly descends. Closeup of the stricken airplane. Glimpse of a possible open parachute. View from inside a B-17 as cluster of bombs fall from its bomb bay. View of contrails below as seen from inside one of the bombers.
American 8th Air Force Division attacks a key railway center in Regensburg, Germany. B-17 bombers drop bombs to destroy a railway center Gun camera footage shows bomb impact causing a pillar of smoke to rise.
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