Indian troops leaving for Congo to join United Nations Forces. Indian soldiers walk between camps and pack bags. Soldiers with rifles. Senior officer meets with a junior officer. Indian Defence Minister Krishna Menon addresses the soldiers gathered. Soldiers proceed to board plane of United Staes Air Force Transports and Krishna Menon meets each soldier.
American aviator and businessman Howard Hughes having lunch at a restaurant in Chicago on May 14, 1936. Other people sitting and standing behind him. Hughes stands up from his seat. View of propeller on his Northrop Gamma 2G airplane being started. Hughes has his goggles on his head and takes off toward California. View of Union Air Terminal (2627 N Hollywood Way, Burbank, CA 91505, United States) in Burbank, California. Hughes steps out of plane in Los Angeles after 8 hours flight. In next scene, aviator Amy Johnson, CBE, wife of Jim Mollison, emerges from her Percival Gull Sixplane. G-ADZO, in Cape Town, South Africa on May 7, 1936 after a record-setting four day and sixteen hours flight from London. A large crowd waits to see her. People greet her with flowers. Johnson is seen among the large crowd and smiling and waving to the crowd. Scenes in clip are from a 1961 newsreel recounting events roughly 25 years prior.
President John F Kennedy returns to Washington DC from Palm Beach, Florida after a injury. President's Air Force One plane lands at airport. President Kennedy is received by an officer on plane's gate. He steps down plane and walks on crutches due to back pain. At White House President Kennedy meets Italian Prime Minister Amintore Fanfani and Foreign Minister Antonio Segni with Vice President Lyndon B Johnson.
Princess Grace of Monaco (née Grace Kelly) and husband Prince Rainier III arrive in Ireland for an official visit. Princess Grace steps down from an Aer Lingus air stair in Dublin Airport (Dublin Airport, County Dublin, Ireland). Prince Rainier and Princess Grace meet Irish officials. Irish people greet the Monegasque royal guests with flowers. As crowd look at them, the royal couple review a parade. Princess Grace and Prince Rainier leave the airport for Áras an Uachtaráin to meet Irish President Éamon de Valera.
Scene of Scheveningen pier (Strandweg 150-154, 2586 JW Den Haag, Netherlands), near The Hague. Queen Juliana talks with officers during review of Royal Dutch fleet, a less publicized arm of NATO in Scheveningen, Hague. People at esplanade. Ship moves on sea water. Radar on ship moves. Cadets on ship HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën stand in salute position. Helicopter fly and Queen watch it. Planes pass and Queen Juliana watch the air and sea show with binoculars. Submarine and align ships in sea.
People board inaugural flight during which a movie is shown in flight -- the movie 'Come September' -- seen in the air at 30,000 feet in United States. Walter Slezak comes with movie reels in a case and talks to stewardess (flight attendants). He boards the aircraft flight that will show the first movie while in flight. Plane takes off. View from inside passenger airplane, looking through passenger windows, as aircraft taxis and lifts off during takeoff. Passengers in the plane as they put on earphones and draw the window shades closed. Passengers watch movie and eat snacks during the show aboard the aircraft. Slezak talks with a woman. Passengers clap.
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