Demonstration of a new air-sea rescue technique. Light plane carries a life-raft. Plane drops the raft in the water. Automatically inflated raft on surface.
Contestants pose at 1954 Miss America pageant at the Boardwalk Hall (2301 Boardwalk, Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States) in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Contestants in swimsuits walk on the ramp. Twenty-year-old Evelyn Margaret Ay of Pennsylvania wins the contest and is crowned Miss America.
Parachute jumping championship in France. Parachutists prepare to board planes. Plane takes off from a field. Parachutist jumps from a plane. Judges look up in the sky. A parachutist lands. Jeep approaches the landing parachutist. Another parachutist drops in the backyard of a house. One more parachutist lands.
Joyland Amusement park at Wichita. School children get on a toy train which leads to the school. Train crosses a bridge. Children enter the school.
Native American Indian dancers including some youth perform at a 3 day Jamboree and rodeo event in Pendleton , Oregon. Native American Indian men and women arrive on horseback at Pendleton Rodeo. They are dressed in traditional Indian regalia. Crowd cheers in stand as rodeo is underway. Cowboys ride bucking horses. Cowboy Joe Chase emerges from stable 3 riding famous horse named War Paint. Chase falls to the ground, "tossed like salad" in the words of the narrator. A cowboy jumps from a horse to a bull and wrestles the bull to the ground.
Bikers ride the bikes up the dirt hill for the U.S. Hill-Climbing Title. One biker falls from the motorbike while racing. Winner crosses the finish line.
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