An inventor and his safer automobile that resembles an insect. The designer of the car stands near it. The engine of the car is in the rear and it has a single front seat that holds 5 passengers, but no backseat for additional safety. The number plate of the car reads '8P 58 39'. man seated in the car. The car on the roads with other vehicles. From an April 27, 1961 newsreel showing events 25 years earlier.
Edward Mandell House (Colonel House), principal advisor to President Wilson, wearing a hat and a warm coat. stands and speaks. A boundary wall and buildings in background. He comes out of his house and closes the door. He climbs down the stairs. Colonel House carries an umbrella.
A car arrives at a railway platform having, oddly, just descended a flight of stairs. Lights at the platform. Several men stand in groups at the platform. Many men emerge from the car. The last man takes out his luggage and boards a train. Men shake hands with him as the train departures. Boys stand by on the railroad station platform and watch and wave also.
President Eisenhower walks up steps of a building at the corner of Baltimore Avenue and East High Street in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Memorial Church of the Prince of Peace (Episcopal) visible across the intersection. Several local inhabitants gather to watch the President. A few Boy Scouts take his picture. He turns toward them briefly as he goes up the steps. View of President Eisenhower's grandchildren, Dwight David and Barbara Anne, in back seat of car, smiling and waving. The car drives away. Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Joseph W. Martin, Jr. stands on sidewalk and chats with reporters. Mr. Martin is next seen sitting and conversing with President Eisenhower. The President fools with his eyeglasses and looks at his watch during the conversation. The Speaker and James Hagerty , the President's Press Secretary, leave the building together, and get into a car.
Senate Majority Leader, William Knowland, sits with President Dwight D. Eisenhower, in an office in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. After their conversations, Senator Knowland is seen leaving the building accompanied by the President's Press Secretary, James Haggerty. Some passersby gather outside the building. Senator Knowland and Mr. Haggerty get into a car. View of the building in which the meeting took place.
Workers in General Motors Research Labs, assemble hand-crafted Firebird II Concept Car. Worker with front end of the car. Assembling body and moving gas turbine engine into place on crane. The car in parking lot, with various openings and unique features displayed. Test driving on the highway. Man, woman and child in the car, driving by Lake Powell in Arizona.
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