Speed and altitude tests being conducted by Bell X-1 at Edwards Air Force Base, California. U.S. Air Force B-29 Superfortess in flight with U.S. Air Force Bell X-1 under its wing. Speed and Mach attainment painted on fuselage of the aircraft. Bell X-1 aircraft releases from B-29 mid flight and begins a solo flight circa 1947. Next scene shows the X-2 released from a B-50 circa 1955. Animation shows radar tracking flight course details for the future X-15. It also depicts its course of flight and the landing of X-15.
A film titled ' Giant plow made to uncover soil buried under sand ' shows three 90 horse power tractors pulling a giant plow capable of making a six feet deep furrow in Santa Ana,California. The plow uncovers soil from underneath a sand cover.
Olympic diving coaching in Santa Barbara, California. Female springboard diver Marjorie Gestring beside a swimming pool. Fred Cady, the coach, with Marjorie Gestring and another springboard diver, 13 year old boy Norman Sper Jr. The coach explains a diagram of diving pattern to the divers. Marjorie Gestring and Norman Sper ascend a diving platform. Gestring takes a dive from the board followed by Sper. Both divers execute several more dives one after the other including a back dive. Marjorie and teenage diver Norman standing on the diving board side by side. Both of them diving into the swimming pool.
The 13th Annual Elk's Rodeo show in Santa Maria, California. Horsemen mounted on wild horses. They fall on ground after a short struggle. Crowd cheers for the participants. Men put up a show riding the bulls.
Trees and gardens on the property of Luther Burbank, the famed horticulturalist in Santa Rosa California. In his experimental gardens are seen roses in bloom. Also a walnut tree, and a garden with a greenhouse connecting to the back of Burbank's home. A gardener with a watering can walks beside a raised garden bed. A Monkey Puzzle pine tree is seen with Luther Burbank inspecting it and walking beside it.
A new pole vault record being set in Santa Barbara, California. John Ueslses tries to set a 16 feet pole vault record. He uses a pole vault to jump over a bar. He registers a mark of 15 feet and 8 inches. In his second attempt he jumps over the bar and sets the record of jumping over a height of 16 feet and three fourth inches. An official measures the height jumped over by Ueslses.
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