The construction of the Golden Gate Bridge spanning the Golden Gate in San Francisco, California, United States. Workers place wooden planks and platforms for a roadway construction. The workers weld grill structures. A railroad on tracks. Concrete in a slab trolley. The concrete is poured on a grill structure. A leveling machine levels the concrete. The workers make markings on the concrete road. Wires are wrapped on a cable to make it water proof. The completely wrapped cable support the bridge. The workers dismantle the sections of the temporary foot bridge. A truck on the bridge.
The construction of the Golden Gate Bridge spanning the Golden Gate in the United States. Workers paint suspensions of the bridge. Strands are wrapped with wires. The strands are lifted in a hydraulic jack. The strands on a cable saddle. The strands are adjusted at an anchorage. A strand shoe used to fix a strand in a perfect position. A solid pin is inserted by workers to fix the strand. Air circulation provided between the strands. Men come in a carriage after the completion of the bridge. Engineers stand on the bridge. A cable compacted by a machine. A steel ring clamped to the strands compact the cable. Workers work on compaction. An engineer checks the dimensions of the compacted cable. A cable casting tied over the strands.
New land and sea speed records are set in the United States. People gather in Daytona Beach, Florida. Sir Malcolm Campbell seated in his race car 'Blue Bird'. He drives the car on Daytona beach and sets a new record driving at the speed of 272 miles per hour. People cheer. Close view of him smoking a cigarette in the car after his speed run. Speedboat racer Garfield Arthur Wood seated aboard his speedboat 'Miss America' on the St Clair River near Detroit Michigan. He races the 5000 horsepower mahogany speedboat and wins the Harmsworth Trophy. Close up view of Gar Wood smiling after his race. From a November 10, 1958 newsreel recounting events 25 years earlier.
Aviator Jimmie Mattern in Floyd Bennett Field, New York. Jimmie Mattern boards the aircraft and takes off for his trip across the Atlantic. Crowd watches as the young Texas pilot takes off.
Pope Pius XI performs the Orbis et Urbis Service in Rome, Italy. A crowd of 150,000 pilgrims kneel and pray in front of the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran (Piazza di S. Giovanni in Laterano, 4, 00184 Roma RM, Italy). Pope Pius XI, wearing the Papal Tiara, conducts the religious ceremony. The pope blesses the crowd from the balcony of the Papal Archbasilica.
Washington Park Zoo monkeys arrive at Island Resort in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Zoo monkeys set free on the island. They climb ladder and swim in the lake. Children watch the monkeys as they play. Monkeys in a small boat. The monkeys being set free from their cages and they roam in a playground.