Forest rangers and soldiers fight forest fire at Gila National Park in New Mexico. Planes drop supplies to fire fighters.
American men and women do sand-planing along the Atlantic coast in Southampton. Sand-planing is a combination of winter sledding and summer aqua-planing, with a mid sized board, reinforced with aluminum, dragged behind a jeep at 30 miles per hour. Ropes are tied to an Aluminum board at one end, and to a jeep at the other end. Jeep pulls the aluminum board on which a person stands and sand-planes. The boards in some views enter the shallows of the surf (early skim boarding or skimboard concept).
Cuban President Osvaldo Dorticos addresses United Nations assembly. Name Plate of Cuba on table. Cuban President sits and speak from his place. Papers lay on table.
Cuban President Osvaldo Dorticos addresses United Nations meeting. He asks U.S. Ambassador Stevenson the political, moral and legal grounds of U.S. charter. He states the aggressive acts of U.S. on small states of Cuba and that U.S. has no positive ideas.
Armistice celebrations in New York City. Large smiling and jubilant crowd gathers on roads and sidewalks. Ticker tape and ribbons float in air down from skyscrapers and buildings. Cars and trucks on the road. The Flag of United States on a building. Happy, cheering, raucous crowd. Men in crowd tip their hats. Clock on road shows time as 35 minutes past 2. Cars on road. People stand beside roads and cheer.
The "Human Liberty Bell" composed from 25,000 Officers and men at Fort Dix, New Jersey during World War 1, by photographers Arthur Mole and John Thomas who took them from an 80 foot tower with a large format camera. The U.S. Government contracted Mole and Thomas to create a number of such photographs as a morale booster during world war 1. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
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