Lou and Eleanor Hamilton and family comes out of their house in New Jersey, enter their custom mobile home (a converted bus) and start traveling. While Lou drives, Eleanor sits next to him with their dog on her lap. While they travel, we see their son shaving and their daughter making tea and playing cards. The narrator explains that traveling for them is possible only because Lou created a portable dialysis machine for use by Eleanor, who has kidney disease. Various shots of Lou constructing the machine are seen. He uses a drill press to drill metal. We also see a second bus that Lou has created called the 'Kidney Koach' which he has outfitted with various exhibits explaining kidney disease and the mechanics behind kidney dialysis.
A memorial to Cole Porter shows clips from films featuring the music of Cole Porter. Mary Martin singing "My Heart Belongs to Daddy." Brief shots of Paris in the 1920s including traffic on city streets and view of Palais du Trocadéro (Trocadero Palace) which existed from 1878-1936. Still photo of Cole Porter cut with colorful moving background graphics.
Views of the crowning ceremony at the Miss America beauty pageant in 1945, and winner Bess Meyerson on stage. Next scene shows Bess Myerson years later as Commissioner of Consumer Affairs for New York City enters a car, car on road on streets of Manhattan, New York City. View of New York City buildings from a moving car. Views of various consumer goods, with price tags on them, people buying. Views of manual cash registers ringing up totals. Views of consumers in markets, stores, and supermarkets. Views of Consumer rights protection office, men and women at work. Women and men on phone. Consumer protection officer at a store, checking different food items. Views of items in butcher or meat department. Interior of a laboratory, food items are tested. Officials working in an office. Commissioner of Consumer Affairs in her office, various items on her desk. View of many different grocery items moving on a checkout belt toward a store cash register. Store worker lifts paper grocery bag and hands it to shopper. Consumer Affairs Commissioner walking on streets of New York City and greeting a woman passing by.
Several passenger airplanes parked at John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) and views of passengers waiting inside the terminal building. People in early 1970s fashions. Views of an aircraft taking off. Exterior of the JFK airport, interior of a flight control room in the control tower with air traffic controllers at work Passengers in U.S. customs processing area. Terminal buildings of the JFK airport. Planes taking off and planes landing at the airport. TWA and Pan American airplanes seen among various aircraft. Passengers greeting family and friends with smiles. Sign boards (some electronic and some mechanical flipping signboards) show arrival and departure information.
Several takes of promotional film made for the Cord automobile company, featuring Hollywood Stars Sonja Henie and Tyrone Power. Sonja Henie sits in a white Cord 812 convertible parked (outside what appears to be Erret Lobban Cord's private mansion in Auburn, Indiana).Tyrone Power drives up, next to her, in a matching black Cord 812. Sonja flirts with Tyrone from her car and he responds.They drive away together in their cars. ( Note: Sonja Henie was a 3-time Olympic Figure Skating Champion, turned Hollywood actress. Reportedly, Tyrone Power became Sonja Henie's new romance in connection with the successful Hollywood movie "Thin Ice" in which they co-starred . It premiered September 3, 1937. Sonja Henie did a publicity deal with E.L. Cord to do this promotional with co-star, Tyrone Power.)
Robert Taylor in St. Louis Cardinal baseball uniform,kneeling next to a boy at edge of ball field. Taylor with cigarette in mouth. Baseball players seem to be playing a game and the ballpark is full of spectators. Hollywood Producer Robert Lord seen briefly in the ballpark stands. Filming for the movie: "Fireman Save My Child."
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