The Blackwell Cup race in New York, United States. Several teams compete. Men row boats on the Harlem River. Buildings in the background. Aerial view of the race. People stand under umbrellas and watch the race as it is raining in the area. Columbia oarsmen win the race.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) tests flight mission STS-3 of Space Shuttle Columbia in the United States. The Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) nozzles 1 and 2. Sparks come out from the parts of the space shuttle. The space shuttle during a launch. Fiery flare emitted as the space shuttle takes off.
Aerial and street level views of the CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System) recording studios in New York City in 1946. 1940's vehicles parked outside the CBS Studio building. Cars and a taxi pass by. Promotion for a Chiquita Banana benefit program on the World Food Problem. CBS lobby towards a street as a crowd exits. People at an information desk in CBS Studio. A girl in an information booth. A man gets information on where the Chiquita Banana show is within the building. Views of people getting information from the young woman in the information booth.
From the CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System) Studio in New York, a program on the World Food Problem. The audience enters the recording studio for the Chiquita Banana program. Other audience listen. Chiquita Banana program proceeds. Actors, band and singers on stage. Miss Chiquita sings (Elsa Miranda, not related to Carmen Miranda). The announcer makes announcements about Chiquita's song. A sign: 'Chiquita Banana, The Banana Song'. Chiquita sings a plea for food to the music of her banana song, but with different words than the regular Chiquita banana song.
A building burns during race riots in Washington, DC following assassination death of Martin Luther King, Jr. A fire truck arrives and firemen douse the fire with water hoses. Letters "D.C.F.D." standing for District of Columbia Fire Department, seen on jackets of firemen. African American citizens on sidewalks and streets outside buildings. People looting stores and stealing goods from stores with destroyed entry ways. Three men stand near a car and they open the trunk of the car.
Twenty millionth car manufactured by Ford in Tennessee. The band and a crowd around a monument in Lebanon, Tennessee. Police escort the twenty millionth Ford, a black Town Sedan, during a parade. An elderly man in uniform and others in front of the twenty millionth Ford. A group pose in front of the twenty millionth Ford at Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Men in front of the car, one of them signs the logbook at Franklin, Tennessee. Spectators watch the motorcade and band pass by at Columbia, Tennessee. A sign over an old car at the roadside reads 'Welcome 20,000,000 Ford my number is 602765, I was born in 1913'. The band play in front of the Ford car. The drum major twirls the baton.