Aviator Charles Lindbergh takes off on solo transatlantic flight from Roosevelt Field in New York. Charles Lindbergh poses with his mother in front of his plane 'Spirit of Saint Louis'. Charles Lindbergh then dons heavier flying suit and boards the plane. The "Spirit of St. Louis" hits a few bumps on takeoff roll and then gradually completes a shallow takeoff.
The Rodman Wanamaker Expedition of Citizenship to the Native American Indians in the United States. American flag raising ceremony at Fort Wadsworth, New York shows the leader of the expedition Dr. Joseph Kossuth Dixon dedicating the flag to American North American Indians and raising it at the site of the future National American Indian Memorial (which was never built), after the same flag had toured the U.S. to different tribes during the Rodman Wanamaker Expedition. The flag is raised by a member of Winnebago Native American Indian Reservation Henry Roe Cloud. Ex-Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs F. H. Abbott delivers a speech. at Fort Wadworth. Anchored ships. The President of the Board of Indian Commissioners George Vaux Jr. delivers a speech. Henry Roe Cloud speaks.
U.S. army transport ship leaves the harbor in Brooklyn, New York. USS Hunter Liggett docked at the harbor. Men boarding the ship. The ship leaves the harbor for Hawaii. People waving.
A film on the winter sports and other activities in the White Mountain National Forest area in New Hampshire, United States during the Great Depression. Members of the Civilian Conservation Corps or CCC working. They construct the ski and hiking trails. View of a hiking trail. The young men of the CCC repair the foot bridges. A man walks over the wrecked foot bridge. Then he comes back and crosses the way by other means due to the wrecked bridge. CCC members working on the construction of bridge.
An icon of Virgin Mary enshrined in Long Island, New York. Exterior of a house. People gather outside the house. The icon is said to have wept when Mrs. Pagona Catsounis of Island Park, NY prayed in front of it. Greek Orthodox Priest Fr. George Papadeas carrying the icon coming out of the house. They proceed towards Saint Paul Greek Orthodox Cathedral (110 Cathedral Ave, Hempstead, NY 11550, United States) in Hempstead. Interior of the church where the icon is enshrined.
The first scene shows a man and a woman standing on a bluff overlooking the Niagara River at Niagara Falls. The entire area is covered by snow and ice, including large clumps of grass and twigs. Behind them is a battery of 36 high intensity lights aimed at the American Falls. ((In 1907, William D’Arcy Ryan of the General Electric Company of Schenectady, New York designed battery of lights to illuminate the Falls. Comprised of 36 lights, they had the strength of 1,093,815,000 candela and were mounted on the Ontario Power Company access road north of the Ontario Power Generating Station near the base of the gorge.) Below the bluff, the Canadian Ontario Power Generating Station can barely be seen because of heavy mist rising from Niagara Falls. The same man and woman are next seen by an access ramp on Luna Island, where the Niagara Bridal Falls is seen in the foreground. Camera moves to a higher vantage point showing three people on Goat Island with Bridal Falls immediately behind them and the American Falls beyond. Goat and Luna Island are completely snow-covered. Glimpse of a woman standing on the bluff shown at the film start. Views of the boat, "Maid of the Mist," ice-bound at the base of the falls.
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