Aviator Charles Lindbergh visits Mexico. A fiesta at the Mexico City Municipal Stadium in his honor. Lindbergh arrives with U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Dwight Morrow and other officials. A large crowd greets him. Officers lined up on the steps leading to the stands. Lindbergh seated with Morrow and other officials. Mexican women perform a traditional dance. Lindbergh with military officers and officials in San Jacinto. Lindbergh seated with Ambassador Morrow and General Alvarez, aide to President Calles. A parade in Lindbergh's honor. He watches as the troops march past. Lindbergh on a tour of Mexican landmarks.
Aviator Charles Lindbergh in Mexico. Lindbergh with military officers and officials in San Jacinto. A parade in Lindbergh's honor. He watches as the troops march past. Lindbergh seated with officials during a farewell feast.
Three Soviet Airmen land on an airfield in San Jacinto,California after flying over the North Pole 6,700 miles without a stop from Moscow. Large crowd gathers at the airfield and greet their arrival.
Aerial view from airplane flying low over a dairy pasture outside San Jacinto, California, shows cars and people below, gathered around a parked Soviet Tupolev ANT-25 aircraft that landed there on July 14, 1937, after a nonstop flight over the North Pole, from Moscow, Russia. Closeup of local people standing in roped off area, looking at the airplane. Scene changes to Soviet pilot, Mikhail Gromov; Co-pilot, Sergei Danilin, and Navigator, Andrei Yumashev, meeting the Press, 20 miles away, on veranda at March Army Air Field Officers Club. Back at the landing site, local people walk under the aircraft wings and examine it closely. Letters "25ND25" are stenciled under the left wing. Back at March Field, American Air Corps officers shake hands with the Soviet flyers.
A film about state parks during the Great Depression in California, United States. Trees at Mount San Jacinto State Park. Supply packs loaded on backs of mules. Men ride horses as they move along a hilly terrain. A waterfall in the park. Civilian Conservation Corps men build bridges and work with shovels. CCC men dig culverts. A CCC camp area with tents in the background. CCC volunteers go for breakfast. Men eat lunch and wash their dishes.
Russian airmen Gromov, Yumashev, and Danilin set a nonstop flight endurance record in 1937 of 62 hours 17 minutes. The airmen fly a Tupolev ANT-25 over the North pole from Moscow to a dairy pasture outside San Jacinto, California (near Los Angeles). High altitude aerial view of the dairy pasture area and the safely landed Tupolev ANT-25. Cars and other vehicles parked at the field and people gathered at the airplane including local farming families. Views of the the three Soviet airmen ( Gromov, Yumashev, and Danilin) after setting the record, while greeting officials and posing for cameras. From an August 1962 newsreel recounting events 25 years earlier.