Launching and christening of USS Santa Fe (CL-60) Cleveland Class light crusier from the Camden, New Jersey yards of New York Shipbuilding, during World War 2. Men, women and U.S. Navy officers and sailors at the harbor during the ceremony, including Santa Fe Mayor Manuel Lujan, and 14 year old Caroline Trevelyan Chavez who receives coaching on how to christen the ship and then smashes a bottle of Santa Fe River water on the bow as the crowd claps and the ship slides down the ways. Ambient sound heard briefly at the christening and afterwards with crowd cheering at different times in the clip. The cruiser slides down the ways enters into the Delaware River. Dignitaries raise their hats to bid goodbye to the ship. The ship turning about in the Delaware River.
Launching of USS Santa Fe (CL-60) in Camden, New Jersey in World War 2. USS Santa Fe slides down the way. Shipyard workers at the launch of the ship. Tugs take over Santa Fe and tow her into a basin.
Fire on mountain canyons in Santa Monica, California. A blaze of fire roars through the canyons mountains. Smoke rises due to the fire. Fire fighting crew on the road tries to control the fire. A man on a fire fighting crew looks at the fire on the mountains. Crew men control the fire by putting water. Damage due to fire.
A number of girls participate in a unique hobby horse race in Santa Monica,California. Participants ride a quadricycle with hobby horses. One of the girls wins the race.
Nearly 600 strikers during labor dispute at Douglas AirCraft Company surrender to police in Santa Monica, California. Several emerge from company building and get in Black Maria paddy wagon and are taken to Los Angeles jail.
Newsreel titled 'Auto plane for road and skyway is demonstrated' shows an Arrowbile flying car (sometimes spelled aerobile) running on the road in Santa Monica,California. The tail-less machine invented by Waldo Waterman (Waterman's Aerobile) being attached with wings and then it takes off as an aircraft.
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