Cadet Jack Kramer, Alice Marble, Lieutenant Don Budge and Mary Hardwicke standing together. Spectators seated in stadium of Madison Square Garden to watch a tennis match. Cadet Jack Kramer pairs with Alice Marble to play the match with Lt. Don Budge and Mary Hardwicke. Cadet Jack Kramer pairs with Alice Marble to down the other team by a 6 to 4 score.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt is seen driving his personal Ford Phaeton hand-controlled car along the tree-lined drive at the estate. Also in the car are his daughter, Anna Roosevelt Dall, and her daughter, Anna Eleanor Dall ("Sistie") and son, Curtis Roosevelt Dall ("Buzzie"). The children are both standing in the back of the car. Next, Roosevelt sits in his car, parked in a cornfield, near the Little White House in Warm Springs, Georgia, while his grandchlldren, Anna and Curtis Dall, visit with farm hands who are piling old plants into a truck. President Roosevelt seen in a close-up. Scene changes to the lawn at "Springwood, where his grandchildren, surround him as he writes letters of thanks, acknowledging congratulatory messages received on his reelection. Next, FDR and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, are seen sitting in wicker chairs on the lawn, when they are approached by grandchildren, Anna and Curtis, astride horses, and granddaughter, Sara, on a pony. Mrs. Roosevelt had been doing needlework. Their dog, “Meggie” sits nearby. Close-up of Sara on her pony. FDR pets the pony while talking to Sara. Scene shifts to President Roosevelt at a desk, looking over his stamp collection. Next, FDR sits by a fireplace with his Mother, Sara Ann Delano Roosevelt. They converse and share a laugh.
Film opens concentrating on sunset viewed as the sun drops below the horizon with hills surrounding. Scene shifts to a river and a steam excursion boat plying its way along the river toward the camera. The boat blows its whistle emiting an extended burst of steam into the air.
Rear view of railroad train from Washington carrying former Ambassador to the United States for Germany, Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff. Count von Bernstorff waving from the train. Unidentified man talking to an officer, possibly Captain Thomsen of the Frederik VIII . View of the Frederik VIII as it pulls away from pier. Ship Frederik VIII in harbor. Unidentified man in bowler hat. Count von Bernstorff was allowed to depart for Germany amidst diplomatic tensions as the United States USA was preparing to enter WWI.
Artist illustration of Sara Delano Roosevelt, mother of future United State President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, reading from a book. A page from a Roosevelt heirloom Dutch Bible turns to show an illustration of Sara Roosevelt holding Franklin Roosevelt as a baby circa 1882. The page turns to show a photograph of Franklin Delano Roosevelt as a young child. Another page turns to show a picture of Franklin Delano Roosevelt as a boy wearing a sailor collar shirt. Image of Franklin Delano Roosevelt wearing a miniature sailor suit, fashionable children’s wear during the 19th century.
Pilots test fly a P-40 airplane at a Curtiss Company facility at Buffalo, NY (the Buffalo municipal airport) during World War II. Curtiss company employees giving a final cleanup and polish to a shiny P-40 airplane. parked on the ramp. Two pilots are suited up to fly: H. Lloyd Child, Curtiss’ chief test pilot (at left), and a U.S. Army Air Force major (at right), are dressed in flight suits, helmets, goggles, and wearing seat-pack parachutes. They stand beside a well-worn P-40 airplane that has a pilot/technician in its cockpit, checking controls. H. Lloyd Child (at left), points to a clipboard on his leg with information on it and discusses it with another pilot (the USAAF major). Next, a pilot is seen taxiing the shiny P-40 at fairly high speed, with the canopy open. He taxis past parked aircraft in front of a hangar, including a Curtiss SBC Helldiver; a Stinson Gullwing; and a Spartan Executive airplane. The P-40 taxis out to the runway where the pilot makes a long takeoff roll before breaking ground. Then he pulls the P-40 into a fairly steep climb, leveling off at about traffic pattern altitude, without retracting his landing gear.
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