Army and Navy officials fly Gliders at 12th Annual Meet in Elmira. Several gliders lined up across field can be seen. Two men Assemble their glider. Pilot enters a glider and takes off. Trucks with pulling strings assist gliders to take off. Shows three gliders circling in skies at high altitude. June1941.
People of Newark celebrates their annual Rose Day Festival. People present bouquet of roses to young ladies. Men women and children visit a rose farm. Several species of roses can be seen. Shots of a young lady posing beside rose laden wines.26 June 1941.
Zinc miners deposit work checks on check board at the top landing shaft of the zinc mine in Franklin,NJ. An old man in charge finds out a drunken miner and sends him off from the mine.
Zinc mine workers pile up timber in cross-sections on a haulage track at zinc mine in Franklin,NJ. Shift boss notices poorly piled sticks and orders workers to fix them. The disordered timber-pile on the track causes derailment of the haulage car.
America's first woman aviator Amelia Earhart poses near her Lockhead-Vega airplane after her record breaking flight to Culmore, London from Derry, Ireland. It took her 15 hours and 40 minutes to span the Atlantic. Earhart enters her plane and takes off.
Time Magazine journalists Robert Sherrod and Harold Horan sort through pictures to use in a magazine article. Sherrod rejects one as being too complicated.
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