View of Amelia Earhart walking up the wing of her Lockheed Electra, parked in a hangar at the U.S. Navy Air Station, Oakland, California. She climbs into the cockpit. In the hangar, near the aircraft, she is seen talking with husband, George P. Putnam. Paul Mantz and Fred Noonan are seen briefly. Earhart and Mantz begin weighing each piece of equipment, while George Putnam records the weights. Mechanic Bo McKneely appears in white coverall, with "Grand Canyon Airlines" written on back. He converses with Mantz and moves to the airplane. Putnam playfully puts a tropical pith helmet on Earhart's head. Putnam brings a rubber life raft to Mantz and Earhart, who examine it. Fred Noonan joins the other three. Earhart gives Noonan a card on the end of a long pole. He reads and pockets it. (Note: The space, in the airplane, between cockpit and cabin, was so crowded with fuel tanks, etc. that Noonan was unable to reach it. So he would use the pole to pass position reports to Earhart during flight.) The four, Amelia Earhart, Paul Mantz, George Putnam, and Fred Noonan, begin placing the equipment into the aircraft cabin.
Manufacturing of Army rifles in the United States during World War 1. Workers at a small arms plant in the U.S. examine wooden rifle stocks during World War 1. Men wheeling numerous dollies of rifle stocks to another part of the factory. Fully assembled rifles (appear to be either 1914 or M1917),loaded on a tray are lowered by African American workers using a manual pulley hoist to place them into a bath of hot cosmoline grease (for preservation). Then they are raised and moved to above a draining table, where they are removed and placed on a dolly. Men clean up the drippings. Next scene shows an African American worker placing the new rifles in wooden boxes for shipment. Closeup of an open wooden box of rifles ready for closing and shipping. Workers stacking 10 wooden shipping boxes of rifles in a hand dolly and moving it to shipping dock.
Film opens showing George Eastman and Osa Johnson with a native guide in Africa. Olsa is looking through binoculars and pointing at something. She passes the binoculars to Eastman, who also looks. Next a male lion is seen racing through deep grassland toward the camera. As he gets quite close he is shot and falls. Views of Eastman and Osa Johnson examining the fallen lion while surrounded by seated native tribesmen with with spears and shields. The tribesmen rhythmically raise and lower their spears in unison. A rhinoceros is also seen shot down as it charges. The hunting party stands around the fallen animal.
View of safari camels coming toward the camera. George Eastman in foreground taking pictures with hand held camera. Eastman, and other Safari members examine a camel rigged for riding and carrying supplies.Other camels similarly set up walk past in the background. Natives trying to constrain a camel that objects to being burdened and bucks to throw his load. Closeup of the camel when he settles down.
Reenactment shows FBI(Federal Bureau of Investigation) agents battling gangsters in the United States, during the 1930s. Machine Gun Kelly storms an apartment building and shoots enemies. The Kansas City Massacre reenacted. Shootouts with gangsters George Kelly Barnes nicknamed 'Machine Gun Kelly', 'Babyface' Nelson, 'Prettyboy' Floyd and John Dillinger by FBI agents. The FBI agents with the help of hidden cameras keep a check on gangster in New York. Hidden camera footage of FBI double agent meeting an axis spy on a New York street. The Brinks robbery in Boston, Massachusetts. Armored cars driving at night. Large amounts of money transported to trucks. Reenactment shows plane exploding with 40 passengers on board. FBI agents in warehouse examining airplane wreckage. View of a Ku Klux Klan (KKK) rally at night, with a burning cross on a field and men in Klan robes around it throwing lit torches toward the burning cross. Brief shot of Martin Luther King being interviewed. Man smoking a cigar. Roulette wheels associated with illegal gambling.
United States Army77th Infantry Division in Guam, Japan during the Guam Operations of World war II. Soldiers aboard an army jeep passes over a dirt road in a forest area. A jeep convoy loaded with supplies. The soldiers seated along the road. A dead Japanese man in a small hut. A burning United States M-4 Sherman tank. Soldiers examine two burning Japanese tanks.
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