Italian aviator, Francesco de Pinedo, sitting in the cockpit of his Bellanca aircraft, the Santa Lucia, on the ramp at Floyd Bennett Airfield, Brooklyn New York. The cockpit contains pillows and other items to help him endure a planned solo long-distance flight to Bagdad, Iraq.
The Prototype Cierva C.30 Autogyro (Registry number: G-ACRI) built by Cierva Autogiro Co Ltd.,of Hanworth, Middlesex, UK. It comes in to land on a grass field, under rotor power only, with its forward engine and propeller stopped. The pilot then starts the forward engine and takes off using power from it and the top rotor.
Brief glimpse of Adolf Hitler standing in an open car encircled and being hailed and saluted by numerous SA (Sturmabteilung) troopers. He is smiling and obviously delighted. The troopers all give the Nazi salute.
Nazi Storm troopers, aka Sturmabteilung (SA) carry torches as they march past a huge bonfire, during celebrations the night of Adolf Hitler's appointment as Chancellor of Germany. Scene from earlier that evening, shows SA Sturm 33, headed by their Leader, Hans Eberhard Maikowski, and Berlin Police Sergeant, Josef Zauritz, as they march with flags and swastika banner, through the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. (A slate appears alluding to the fatal shootings of Maikowski and Zauritz, soon afterwards, when they decided to march through Wall Strasse, a known Communist area, where a melee broke out.)
Slate states the new Germany honors its dead by means of State Funeral. Brief views of the Berlin Cathedral (Am Lustgarten, 10178 Berlin, Germany). View of a resting (dead) Hans Eberhard Maikowski, Leader of a Storm Trooper unit (SA Sturm 33), who was fatally shot, along with Police Sergeant, Josef Zauritz, January 30th, during a melee with Communists after parading to celebrate Hitler's appointment as chancellor. Hermann Göring (or Goering) talking with Nazi officials on steps of building. Adolf Hitler stands near a car with large contingent of Storm Troopers. View from a high point of a funeral procession surrounded by huge crowd. The procession includes the hearses of Maikowski and Sauritz, pulled by horses. Close view of elaborate hearse of Zauritz, drawn by covered horses and escorted by Berlin policemen, and that of Maikowski, escorted by Nazi Stormtroopers. Procession of mourners including Joseph Goebbels and Hermann Goering, followed by Stormtroopers carrying wreaths. Pallbearers in top hats carry a coffin.
The National Socialist Factory Cell organizations (NSBO) gathered in the Berlin Lustgarten, for a large protest march through the formerly Marxist areas east of Berlin. Men carry banners for various worker groups, including some German Government workers from the Defense Ministry. Many carry signs showing affilitation with the NSBO. Uniformed Berlin policemen are seen in the crowd. At start of the next sequence, a slate states that the day before the election, the entire Berlin Sturmabteilung (SA) Stormtroopers marched by Hermann Goring, Prussian Minister of the Interior. They are seen marching past Goering, who reviews them from a balcony.