The inauguration of the Sylvania Recreation Area in the Ottawa National Forest in Michigan, United States. People gather on a beach. People stand and talk in a group. Boys sit in a line. People click pictures as the First Lady of the United States Mrs. Lady Bird Johnson, Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman and Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey with other officials walk past a crowd. Mrs. Lady Bird Johnson talks to people and shakes hands as she walks past them. People click pictures as she walks past.
Sergeant R. L. Bose demonstrates reliability of Air Service parachutes and disproves a theory that a man falling 500 feet or more loses consciousness. Civilians and military spectators watch the demonstration. Views from the airplane as Sergeant Bose free-falls from 3000 feet, delaying his chute opening until 1500 feet. Some of his free fall in slow motion. He makes a routine parachute landing. Spectators and an ambulance come as a precaution to his landing point.
British Army Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery with U.S. Generals in Nieuwkerk, Germany during World War II. Montgomery, U.S. Army Lt. General William H. Simpson and U.S. Army Major General John B. Anderson come out from XVI Corps Headquarters. A soldier takes pictures in the foreground. British soldiers stand in front of the headquarters. Montgomery, Simpson and Anderson standing with other officers. Montgomery looks around and speaks to U.S. Generals. Montgomery, Simpson and Anderson escorted by an officer walk along a road. Buildings and soldiers in the background. They enter the headquarters and come out. A car parked in the foreground. The three of them stand together and talk. Montgomery puts on his coat while talking.
USAAF (United States Army Air Forces) B-26 Marauder medium bombers at Glenn L. Martin Company plant in Baltimore, Maryland during World War II. A B-26 aircraft towed out of a hangar. B-26s parked at a field. Preflight inspection and testing of the B-26 aircraft is done under pressure of combat conditions. The B-26 Marauder takes off and is in flight. It lands.
Manufacture of USAAF (United States Army Air Forces) B-26 Marauder medium bombers at Glenn L. Martin Company plant in Baltimore, Maryland during World War II. Aircraft workers work on the nose section of B-26s. Wings of B-26s under construction. Workers use different machines and work on sections of the aircraft. A welder at work. Parts of aircraft waiting to be packed and assembled. Workers assembling parts of aircraft. Close up views of riveting and other join techniques. Nose and fuselage section of B-26 aircraft are joined. Wheels are taken towards the aircraft. Wings are joined. The engine is hoisted. A partially completed B-26 Marauder.
Pioneer film producer, W.K.L. Dickson, playing a violin into a recording cone in early attempt to record sound simultaneously with the filming of moving images. Dickson, himself plays the violin.To add more action, two of his colleagues dance together, to the music. Filmed at the Edison Black maria Studio in New Jersey.
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