Film on Sesquicentennial of Washington DC, released in 1950. Film segments created for presentation by Treasury Department at meeting on April 25, 1929. A portrait of the first President of the United States George Washington. Animated maps of the original 13 colonies and the 10 square mile Federal District of Columbia. View of the Chesapeake and Ohio (C&O) Canal. George Washington's landmark plantation home, Mount Vernon. Christ Church in Alexandria. Old houses on a street and a hill in Georgetown. Sketch of Suter's Tavern. Animated map shows the L'Enfant development plan and the location of principal buildings. The first section of the U.S. Capitol built on Jenkins Hill. The U.S. Capitol building designed by William Thornton and Benjamin Henry Latrobe. Sketch of the White House designed by James Hoban. Sketch of Capitol Building in 1827 with dome constructed by Charles Bullfinch.
Landmark buildings reviewed during sesquicentennial in Washington DC. The Old Patent Office Building built in 1835. The American flag flutters in wind from a flagpole atop the building. The City Hall occupied by the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.
Sesquicentennial anniversary of Washington DC. The statue of Governor of the District of Columbia Alexander Robey ("Boss") Shepherd. Tree lined avenues and parks. The Library of Congress in Washington DC. A bronze fountain of the Court of Neptune (101 Independence Ave SE, Washington, DC 20540, USA) at the entrance to the landmark Library of Congress.
Reserve airmen of a Recovery Unit in South Carolina. Airman gets in car and drives. Reserve airmen ready the field for use. Reserve airmen and officers of a Recovery Squadron gives a Readiness test at North Field near Columbia,South Carolina. United States Air Force (USAF) C-123B Provider transport aircraft taxis for landing. Reserve airmen check the aircraft and crew for radiation. Wounded men are evacuated by ambulance. Airman operates a radio. USAF C-124A Globemaster II cargo aircraft with modified radome nose lands at airfield. Emergency vehicles drive onto the runway.
Recovery of the Apollo 11 astronauts from the spacecraft Columbia floating in the Pacific Ocean. U.S. Navy Sikorsky Sea King SH-3D helicopter #66 airlifts the astronauts back to the USS Hornet (CV-12). A navy band plays on the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Hornet. The Sea King SH-3D helicopter lands on the deck of USS Hornet with the 3 Apollo 11 astronauts inside. The helicopter is moved from the flight deck to the hangar deck by elevator. U.S. President Richard Nixon watches the activities in the company of George Mueller, NASA chief of Manned Space Flight.
First color television broadcast from Columbia Broadcasting Systems. Color Television Monitor Tube photographed at the National Guard Armory in Washington DC. Television broadcast shows "Patty Painter," (real name Patricia Stinnette) displaying colored pieces of cloth. (Note: Reportedly, the U.S. Naval photographic unit that did these tests tried to record color images from all three of the proposed color systems at the time: the CBS field-sequential system, RCA's dot-sequential system and CTI's line-sequential system.)