British racing car motorist Sir Malcolm Campbell sets a speed record on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, United States in 1935. Close up view of Malcolm Campbell as he smiles and then puts on his racing goggles over his eyes. He drives his vehicle 'Bluebird' over the Utah desert. People gather to watch the performance of the famous car racer. Views of melted tire on his car from an unsuccessful first attempt. Close up views of Sir Malcolm Campbell after setting his record speed of over 300 miles per hour. From a 1960 newsreel describing the event 25 years prior.
Wreckage of USS Utah (BB-31/AG-16) at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. Remains of the USS Utah protruding above water. Aircraft carrier with airplanes parked with wings folded, in background. Cranes also visible in background. Routine activity seen in and around the harbor, with small craft moving about, and several vessels docked.
Footballs match between Army's Black Knights and Utah's Fighting Redskins at West Point in New York. Civilians and Army men in uniform watch the match. Army's Black Knights win over Utah's Fighting Redskins with a score of 39-33.
People are seen skiing down the slopes of snow covered mountains in Utah. Then, an avalanche of snow is shown across a valley. It thunders down the mountainside covering trees and everything in its path and rapidly approaches the camera position. Scene shifts to a Snow Ranger of the U.S. Forest Service. View of badges worn by such Rangers. View of the Snow Ranger headquarters in Alta, Utah, where avalanche studies are conducted. Camera pans along a swath of deep snow on a mountainside.
A film titled 'Sky Fleets of the Navy' on maneuvers of U.S. ships. A U.S. fleet underway at sea in the United States. The bow of a battleship cuts the water. Battle ships steaming in a battle formation. USS Lexington underway in the background. A line of cruisers and battleships in formation underway at sea. USS Utah, radio control ship for target practice during bombing by U.S. Navy aircraft carrier squadron. Officers talk. They salute each other. One of the officer talks to a bugler who blows a bugle. Men of USS Utah leave the ship so that it may be used as a bombing target. The ship under radio control. An officer on the control ship uses equipment and instruments to operate the ship by radio control.
On Election Day, November 7, 1944, in World War 2, Americans are seen waiting patiently to vote. They stand in a long line extending down a city sidewalk next to brick and stone buildings. Views of several persons in the line. Scene shifts in flashback to the election of Woodrow Wilson, in 1912. Four men on horseback arrive at a polling place. Another travels to vote, in his 1910 Ford Model T truck. Change of time and place shows farmer arriving by horse-drawn wagon and walking to polling place past 1930s car and truck. A fully laden truck stops at a rural gasoline station, temporarily serving as polling place. American town residential street scene in the 1930s. Citizens gathering to vote at a polling place set up at a laundry shop, in the Bronx Borough of New York City. Views of various places in the United States, serving as polling places. Americans seen waiting to vote at various places, in the 1944 national election. Among the sites shown is Bridgeport Central High School, built in 1916, (which later became Bridgeport City Hall), at 45 Lyon Terrace in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Persons in various places, registering to vote, including actor Lewis Stone, actress Esther Williams, and USO entertainer, Bob Hope. Voter closing curtain behind him as he votes in a voting booth. Views of voters' feet, below curtains, as they vote. Various types of boxes. Newspaper headline speaks of the large voter turnout in millions during the 1944 election. Shipyard workers at end of their shift, are seen heading to the polls to vote.
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