U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt visits West Point in New York, United States. West Point cadets lined up as President Roosevelt, General Connor and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt arrive in a car. President Roosevelt stands in a car as he reviews the cadets. The cadets march during a parade. General Connor welcomes President Roosevelt to West Point. The President seated in a car as he speaks.
Excerpts from British movie about trench warfare in World War One. Explosions occur and columns of smoke rise. British and French soldiers run across no man's land battlefield towards Montaubon. Glimpse of German troops in trench. German machine gun firing from fortified position. German troops retreating from trenches and firing back at advancing allied troops. British troops entering German trenches and chasing retreating German troops in the trenches. German troops fleeing. French soldiers crossing "no man's land" battlefield while under fire. British troops using horses to reposition and move field artillery pieces.
German Red Cross personnel march with their personal gear. Horses of a German commissary division pull large soup wagons (patterned after those used by the Barnum and Bailey traveling Circus). They also pull cooking equipment and supplies. A German manufacturing plant where 3000 of the soup wagons are being readied for shipment to the front. Several wagons are seen loaded on a railroad flat car. German soldiers at the front gather around a field kitchen and get soup from one of the wagons.
German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel visits with Mrs. Goebbels and her children, during a period between command assignments, during World War II. Rommel, standing with aides, in the garden of the Goebbels home in Schwanenwerder, Berlin, smiles as he watches the Goebbels children at play. Magda Goebbels, wife of Propaganda Minister Joseph Paul Goebbels, with her children gathered around a slide in the yard. Rommel watches as Magda helps her youngest daughter, Heidrun, down the slide using a wheeled board and help from another daughter. Field Marshal Rommel looks on and smiles. Rommel along with Magda, return to the house, holding hands with the children. Another view of the activities around the slide. Rommel examines the wheeled board with Mrs. Goebbels, who then helps Heidrun ride it down the slide. Marshal Rommel and Magda Goebbels hold hands with her daughters as they return along a path to the house.
Commercial airplane reliability tour for the Edsel B. Trophy at Ford Airport in Dearborn, Michigan. Cars parked at the airport. People stand under the wings of an aircraft due to rain. An aircraft flies overhead and lands on a muddy field. A searchlight being used to help pilots find the the airport. Henry Ford in rain coat, conversing with William B. Stout, head of the Stout Metal Airplane Division of the Ford Motor Company. Ford steps away and Stout discusses something with another man, who refers to a paper, perhaps a flying schedule. Ford walks past in background.
A variety of airplanes parked at the Ford Airport, Dearborn, Michigan,at the start of the 1930 Ford Commercial Airplane reliability tour, AKA The National Air Tour for the Edsel B. Ford Reliability Trophy. Red, White, and blue bunting decorates the airport building. In the distance, the Clock Tower, at Greenfield Village can be seen. Some pilots start their engines. At TC: 00:40 Nancy Hopkins, the only woman pilot in the event (and her own mechanic), is seen walking toward the camera, smiling and folding a paper. At TC:00:45, Aviator Jimmy Doolittle is seen standing by the leading edge of an airplane wing, with his hand on the pitot tube. Edsel Ford and an assistant control the start of airplanes, each at a specific time. They signal each pilot to start, using a white flag. The last plane seen taking off is number 22, a Viking Kitty Hawk B4 biplane, piloted by Nancy Hopkins.
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