A modern automated station wagon automobile with many new features is shown in Chicago. It is a 1956 Chrysler Plymouth Plainsman, designed by David Scott and built by Ghia as an experimental Station Wagon. The car displays a Texas longhorn cattle emblem. Various modern and inventive features of the car are shown, such as a tail light that moves forward to reveal the gas tank filling tube, a powered rear door, a powered retracting step for children to enter the rear of the car, power folding seats, and unique taillight design. A woman with children stands beside the car. The boy and girl children climb up in the back of the car and sit facing toward the back. The car drives away and the children smile as the automatic rear window closes.
Fashions in New York for overweight girls. New styles for overweight youngsters are shown. Girls aged 7 to 15 display specially designed and proportioned clothing for heavier weight girls. Plus size girls wearing designed, attractive and inexpensive dresses. The girls gather at the "No Calorie Bar" of the "Lane Bryant Chubby Shop" and drink beverages prepared by a boy working behind the counter.
The finals of a boxing match in the Eastern Golden Gloves Division in New York. A boxing match in a boxing ring. Spectators watch the match. The boxers fight. One boxer knocks out. The referee enforces the rules of the ring during the boxing match. The boxers fight in a ring.
Local boys build a steam-powered automobile in Jamesburg, New Jersey. Three boys make the amateur version of a Stanley Steamer auto. The boys use kindling wood to stoke a fire for steam power. Steam rises from the device. The boys hop onto their car and drive it down a road in before a gathered crowd. (World War II period).
U.S. Navy airship, USS Akron (ZRS-4) over Camp Kearny, San Diego, California, attempting to dock for refueling. A hundred sailors hold on to spider lines from rings on cables lowered by the USS Akron. After one ring breaks, all sailors let go except three who are pulled aloft as the airship lurches up from an updraft. One, Robert H. Edsall, falls to his death, followed by Nigel M. Henton, who also suffers the same fate. The third, Charles Cowart, manages to tie himself to the cable and is eventually pulled into the airship, safely.
Italian aviator, General Francesco de Pinedo, attempts takeoff in his Bellanca airplane, named the Santa Lucia. The Italian flag is painted on the aircraft rudder. The ship is heavily laden with fuel for a solo long-distance flight from Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, New York, to Baghdad, Iraq. The aircraft is seen to wander during the takeoff roll and with loss of control, crashes near a fence alongside the runway. The aircraft breaks into pieces, and with one wing sticking straight up in the air, begins to burn. It is immediately consumed in fire. Vehicles rush to the scene. Hangar number 6, at Floyd Bennett field, can be seen in background, with "Erickson and Remmert, Inc." painted on it. De Pinedo died in the accident.
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