View of four men near a 1903 Ford model-A car in front of the house. One of the men cranks the car while others sit in it. Car starts and man gets in it. The car moves on the streets. A 1904 Ford Model-C car being driven on a street. The 1904 Model-C and two other more modern cars parked at a residential cross street. A woman and a man sits in the 1904 model-C car as a policeman looks on.
AAA-sponsored 500 mile race at Twin City Motor Speedway in Minnesota, on Labor Day, 1915. Scenes of racing cars running and of groups of cars as they begin the race, with racing teams pushing their cars off. Race driver, Dario Resta, who had earned a pole position with a qualifying speed of 102.8 mph, is seen as he pulls off the track in his Mercedes, abandoning the race, after completing 110 miles, because the cap on back of his oil pump had come off, causing pump failure and oil loss. His racing crew surround the car. The next scene shows Resta posing beside his Mercedes, number 24. One of his team playfully pokes him in the ribs. Flagman steps into track and waves as officials in two passenger cars drive past.
A motorcycle policemen leads a parade of new (1926 models) Ford motor vehicles, on a race track. A long line of Ford cars, trucks, and buses follow slowly on the race track. A man in one of the first vehicles is speaking toward the the camera and spectators, with a large megaphone.
View of a car parked near icy pond while several boys sit at the pond edge. Children put on ice skates and a man gets into the car on the road beside. Boys ice skate away and the Model-T Ford automobile drives away.
U.S. Coast Guard cutters at sea. U.S. Coast Guard sailors on cutters in heavy seas. A sailor looks through binoculars from the observation deck. Another sailor looks through binoculars, keeps a watch, and informs the crew of a submarine sighting. The cutters attack and drop shells into the water. Massive underwater explosions. The crew mans and fires the deck gun. A pilot readies his plane. Oil from a leaking submarine floats on the water surface. Cutters at sea. A Coast Guard sailor and a SPARS (Coast Guard Women's Reserve) walk along the New York harbor. The Statue of Liberty in the background. The New York skyline as SPARS march. Voice narration in part by James Cagney and Ginger Rogers.
A woman runs towards a U.S. Coast Guard Vought OS2U Kingfisher floatplane on the shore. She hands over a paper to the pilot in the cockpit. Crew prepare and push the plane towards the ramp, and then slide the plane off the ramp into the water. The woman stands back and watches as the plane taxis in the water and takes off. A light house off shore. Narration by James Cagney.
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