First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt waving and moving through a crowd of women, in March, 1933. She stands with son, James, at entrance to an American Airlines aircraft. Eleanor Roosevelt waving goodbye to a crowd, as she boards a railroad train on a trip across the country. She is seen attending an outdoor picnic event. Wearing a miners hat, she rides, with labor union representatives and members, on a train into a coal mine, where she inspects its interior and conditions. Eleanor Roosevelt visiting a facility for the aged, and speaking publicly about their problems. She is seen engaged in country dancing during one of her visits. Upon her return from the cross country trip, she remarks about enjoying and learning much from it, as she walks from Union station, in Washington, DC, to a waiting automobile. She pauses to pose for a photographer, and then enters the back seat of the car.
Timber topping and riding down a flume in Oregon. Timber toppers prune the trees. Woodsman gets timber up and come down from top of timber. A man rides on long flume. He rides down at end of flume line. Woodsman brings out big timber.
American aviator Wiley Post returns to Floyd Bennett Field in New York after completing his solo flight around the world in a just under 8 days. People gather in a large number to welcome him. They gather around his aircraft. Scene shifts to streets of New York City where Wiley Post is honored with a ticker tape parade for his Around The World achievement. The aviator seated aboard a jeep passing by. People celebrate and greet him. He is bestowed with the Medal of Valor by New York City Mayor John P. O'Brien. Next segment shows plane of American aviator Roscoe Turner landing, after his record-setting flight from New York to Los Angeles in 10 hours and 5 minutes flying his Wedell-Williams Model 44 (WW-44) aircraft. This won him the 1933 Bendix Trophy. Close view of Roscoe Turner smiling from the cockpit of his aircraft. From a November 10, 1958 newsreel recounting events 25 years earlier.
A film titled 'Home brewers hold tourney to decide bottle capping King! Winner sets new record of 9 seconds'. A man waves a handkerchief and beer home brewers run a considerable distance and cap the bottles placed there and run back to the start line along with their bottles in Portland in Oregon. The winner who sets a new record of 9 seconds is seen. The men smile.
The Pacific Northwest Ski Jumping Championship at Mount Hood in Oregon. A man crowns a woman who smiles for the camera. Scene shifts to Ski jumping activity. Skiers turned sideways hold to a rope line as they stand along the side of the ski jump. Spectators stand in the snow on both sides of the track. From this point on numerous views of ski jumpers are seen. They show skiers at the takeoff point atop the ski jump as well as skiers at the landing point below. Views include some of bad landings, but most are uneventful.
The 1st Cavalry Division moving across the field near Salem, Oregon. Soldiers and horses on a field. The soldiers unload packs from the horses and put them on the field. The horses curried and shoed. U.S. Army soldier heats horse shoe in open fire and then pounds the horseshoe on blacksmith anvil. A horse his its lower leg bandaged by a medic, who then inspects its mouth and teeth. The horses are fed. (World War II period).
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