After a radio play in New York terrifies the nation. Thousands of radio listeners throughout the U.S. are frightened into mass hysteria by a dramatization of H. G. Wells' old thriller 'The War of the Worlds' as staged by Orson Welles, a young actor-manager. Orson Welles speaks at a press conference about the event. Media persons take notes during the press conference.
A film 'Safe On Base' depicts an American military base on the Bermuda Islands. A map of the Bermuda Islands on a table. The wing of a U.S. airplane. Aerial views of the Bermuda Islands. A sign: 'Headquarters, Bermuda Base Command, 1389th Air Force Base Unit, Atlantic Division, Air Transport Command'. A jeep driven on a road. United States Army Air Force (USAAF) SB-17G Flying Fortress aircraft on a ramp.
Orville Wright and U.S. Army aviator Frank Purdy Lahm, the first army passenger, test the "Wright Flyer" at Fort Myer, Virginia. Preparations for the take off of the aircraft. Frank Purdy Lahm sits at the controls with Wright standing in the front and releasing the ropes. Lahm and Orville Wright take seats in the aircraft. Men standing beside a catapult in front of buildings. Good views of Fort Myer buildings of the era. They adjust the position of the catapult. The catapult as seen from the front of the aircraft. View of catapult from behind the aircraft. The Wright Flyer takes off. The aircraft in flight. It circles over a field and buildings. Headquarters building in the background. The aircraft in flight over the field. (This footage is a mix of July 1909 footage where the aircraft shows two half-rounds of canvas in the front elevator, and September 1908 footage, from the rear taking off, where the aircraft has a single half-round of canvas in the front elevator.)
Orville Wright and U.S. Army aviator Frank Purdy Lahm, the first army passenger, test the "Wright Flyer" trials at Fort Myer, Virginia. The aircraft in flight. Headquarters building in the background. Men stand in front of the buildings. They watch the Wright Flyer flying. The aircraft circles over a field and buildings. The aircraft in flight. It lands on the field. The aircraft is moved on the field. Army personnel group around the Wright aircraft. Oliver Wright gets off the aircraft.
Belgian Prime minister Paul van Zeeland meets U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to discuss international affairs in Washington DC. President Roosevelt and other dignitaries greet Paul Zeeland at the entrance of the White House. People standing on either side of the road in front of the White House wave at them. President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Paul van Zeeland and other officers pose for a camera at the entrance of the White House. President Roosevelt is seen standing with assistance by holding the arm of a Navy officer. The President's cane is also seen hanging on the officer's arm.
French women serving in farming roles during World War I as majority of French men are engaged in World War 1. Women farmers together with younger French boys and girls holding farming tools and walking toward fields, through some war rubble. Women with babies pick potatoes in farms. They reap crops and make stacks of it. The farmers attach a mule with a cart loaded with hay stacks. Two women pull the stacks out from the cart. The farming women and youth stand in a circle and use flails for threshing wheat.
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