Curtiss R3C1 racer aircraft prepared for the 1925 Pulitzer Race at Mitchel Field in New York, United States. Civilian and army air service personnel push the army R3C1 aircraft from the hangar of 6lst Service Squadron Engineering Department at Mitchel Field. The army R3C1 aircraft on a grass field. Two civilians and two air service personnel standing behind a wing are examining the cockpit. The navy R3C1 aircraft with its engine running on the grass field. A civilian is in the cockpit and another civilian is standing. An open touring car drives in from the background and stops by the aircraft. Navy Lieutenant Al Williams alights from the vehicle and walks past Army Lieutenant Cy Bettis to the aircraft. He then talks with the man in the cockpit.
Lieutenant Al Williams flying a Curtiss R3C1 racer aircraft for the 1925 Pulitzer Race at Mitchel Field in New York, United States. View of the navy R3C1. Lieutenant Al Williams and a civilian look at a map laid out on a wingtip of the aircraft. Lieutenant Cy Bettis and Lieutenant Williams standing behind the navy R3C1 aircraft. Lieutenant Williams removes his uniform coat and cap, then Lieutenant Bettis helps him put on a parachute and he climbs into the cockpit of the aircraft. Lieutenant Williams seated in the cockpit of the navy R3C1. He smiles at a camera and puts on goggles. A civilian comes up to side of the cockpit and the two men confer over a small notebook. The navy R3C1 with its engine running on a grass field. Several Curtiss mechanics push the tail of the aircraft around. An army officer, a civilian and an army enlisted man are standing nearby and are watching. The navy R3C1 taxis in front of a small hangar. The army R3C1 takes off. Two aircraft flying over Mitchel Field during the course of the 1925 Pulitzer Race. The navy R3C1 lands. Lt. Williams wearing a flight jacket and a navy service cap.
Flight of Cierva autogyro from an airfield in Spain. Men stand near a parked autogyro at an field. The autogyro takes off from the airfield. The autogyro lands. The pilot sits on edge of cockpit of the autogyro.
International Newsreel uses printed press as source of information and entertainment in connection with telegraph news agency. Interiors of office in telegraph news agency with journalists and editors in press room or news room. A man using a vintage telephone, seated in front a typewriter, telephones an event from telegraph operators' room to newsreel editor. Newsreel editor and cameraman seen in newsreel news office as they receive word by phone and get ready to leave for location where event took place. They board a DH-4 biplane aircraft, carrying tripod and moving image camera (in protective box) to film the event.
Various events captured by newsreel cameramen. A large cargo ship on fire in mid ocean. Billows of smoke arise from the burning ship and from fuel burning in water. Views taken from small boat circling the burning ship. In another event, a rescue lifeboat or tender full of people is seen picking up one person, who hangs from its starboard side. People wearing life vests in a lifeboat attempt to climb aboard a rescue ship, in rough seas. Scene changes to a smoking volcano. Three men on mountain top. Volcano erupts. Newsreel cameramen set up camera on mountain terrain. Men run down hill. Volcano erupts in the background. Cameramen moves away with his camera. Lava advancing and engulfing and destroying a house in a village near the erupting volcano.
Various events captured by newsreel cameramen. Political rally broken up by gunfire. Crowd disperses and people run from area in front of Brandenburg Gate, Berlin. Men and women run across street. Building in the background. Smoke arises from explosion and gunfire in front of the Brandenburg Gate.