U.S. aviation pioneer General James Harold 'Jimmy' Doolittle sets a new air record for flying a passenger airplane from Burbank, California to Newark, New Jersey in twelve hours. Doolittle and his wife seen looking at a map. They both board the waiting aircraft, American Airlines’ Vultee V-1A Special NC13770. 'Shell' oil company symbol written on the airplane. The airplane taxis and takes off from Union Air Terminal, Burbank, California. Aerial view of the airplane in flight over mountains. The airplane in flight over the clouds. The airplane lands at Newark Airport and taxis on a runway. Hangars and a building in the background. Doolittle exits the airplane with his wife at and greets people waiting. They pose for pictures beside the airplane.
Illustrations of pioneers moving westward during early American expansion. Statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial (2 Lincoln Memorial Cir NW, Washington, DC 20002) in Washington, DC. Bird in flight. Vertical view of trees. Statue of Civil War Union Soldier. Montage of Civil War statues and cannon conveying experience of the war. Stream and woodland. Illustrations of Lincoln's Presidential inaugurations in 1861 and 1865. Washington, DC street scene in 1969. Simple stone monument commemorating President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
A documentary depicts the effect of the Marshall Plan on the lives of people during the first year of its implementation in Europe. A ship at a dock. Men unload sulphur from the ship. A framers sprays sulpahte in a field. A boat underway. Norwegian fishermen aboard the boat are fishing. A fishing net in water. Fishes in the net. A fisherman empties a box containing fishes. People at work in fish canning industry. Women working in Norway put fish in tins. Women packing fishes in cans. The packed cans on display in a shop. A woman buys packed fish cans. The packed cans on a table of a shop in Britain. A man selling spaghetti at a store in Italy. Cattle at a dairy. Tractors in front of a house. A farmer man sits on a tractor. Animated map shows export of tractors from the U.S. to France. Animation depicts contribution of the people for the recovery program. A man ploughs a field with the help of a tractor. A power plant in France being built (appears to be the Roselend Dam hydroelectric complex in the French Alps at Savoie. View includes what may be the penstock gallery leading down to the La Bâthie power station. French Men at work building the power plant. Men construct highways with the help of modern machinery in Greece. Men at work. Construction of new houses for homeless people. Men at work. A man makes shoes. People at work in a shoe factory. Shoes at display in a shop. A man looks at the displayed shoes in a store. Increase in production in different sectors after the implementation of the Marshall Plan. Food kept on a table. Coal production increased to 11%. Coal being shoveled by hand. Textile production increased to 18%. Steel production increased to 40%. A railroad train moves on tracks. Man in Italy plays bocci ball with his unemployed friends. A British family eating food in their kitchen. A French family gathered for a meal. Woman taking a roasted meat from oven and putting it on table for large family in France to eat. Members of a union seated around a table. A coal miner works in a mine. A man plows a field.
Animated map assembles sections of the United States of America reflecting various kinds of inhabitants. A woman of Native American Indian origins weaves a straw hat as a young boy plays nearby. Sign outside a building identifying the "Slovak Political Benefial Assn." Other signs on seen on different buildings include: "Polish Army Veterans Association of America;" "Ukrainian American Youth Association;" and "Germantown Hospital." A brass plate on a building reading: "English-Speaking Union." Asian-American school girls, and a Japanese-American man with a boy. View of a wood carving in ancient African style. A street scene showing many Hispanic Americans, and commercial signs in Spanish. A group of new American citizens reciting oath at a naturalization ceremony, each receiving a small American flag. Some appear to be of Asian or South Asian descent, including possibly Vietnamese. Animated map shown again, indicating the geographical distribution of Americans in the U.S. First it shows areas where citizens live near water, either the oceans, Gulf of Mexico, or the Great Lakes. Montage of urban scenes showing some of the cities where most Americans live. The Massachusetts State House in Boston. New York City street scene with the Empire State Building in background. City Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Capitol in Washington, DC
Northrop Gamma 2G (NR13761) aircraft in final approach and landing at airstrip of Union Air Terminal in Burbank California. It is arriving from its record setting speed flight from Chicago to Los Angeles, piloted by Howard Hughes. Aviator Howard Hughes emerges from cockpit and greets crew who approach plane as it taxis to a stop near terminal buildings. Howard Hughes walks away with several associates. He had flown from Chicago, Illinois to Los Angeles, California at a top speed of 215 mph, arriving in 8 hours and 10 minutes.
A malaria campaign in the United States. Exterior of Pan American Union Building in Washington DC. Dr. Milton Stover Eisenhower, brother of U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, with some officials. He presents a cheque of a million and a half dollar contribution to aid the malaria campaign.
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