View from the ground at Mitchel Field, on Long Island Spirit as the Spirit of St. Louis is seen circling to land. A small group of people stand near a hangar. Lindbergh's plane lands on the grass field and taxis toward three army soldiers there to help him park. Lindbergh, in flying gear, steps from his airplane. Closeups of him standing near it. Scene shifts to Brooklyn New York, where Lindbergh, now dressed in business suit, and surrounded by a crowd, descends wooden steps to enter an open car. He sits prominently in the back of the car, accompanied by Raymond Orteig and officials. Mounted police escort the car. View from rear as motorcade drives along a festooned Brooklyn street with a "Welcome Lindy" banner stretched across the road. Motorcycle police escort the cars. Spectators crowd the sidewalks. The motorcade continues through leafy boulevards and open highways. Everywhere enthusiastic crowds line the way. American flags decorate the lead car. A group of Boy Scouts with massed American flags lines one side of the highway. Crowds, waving American flags, teeter on the edge of the sidewalks along a commercial section of town. View from a high location overlooking Prospect Park in Brooklyn, where people throng the sidewalks and park paths. Camera pans across the park. A motorcade (now grown to include numerous cars) circles to enter at the Grand Army Plaza entrance to the park. A slate reads: At Knights of Columbus Building for a luncheon in his honor." Then the motorcade stops at a building festooned with patriotic bunting and a banner reading: "U.S. Council 126 K of C." Later, Lindbergh enters the open car again with Raymond Orteig and they leave. Next, at the Brevoort Hotel (owned by Mr. Orgteig) an elaborate check for twenty five thousand dollars is shown. It is dated June 17, 1927 and signed by Raymond Orteig. Lindbergh and Orteig shake hands and chat amicably while attempting to pose for a photograph. Glimpse of U.S. Capitol building overlaid by a "Welcome Lindy" sign. Closeup of Lindbergh superimposed on top of that along with a waving American flag.
During post World War II reconstruction years of early 1950s in Germany. German police officer stands on a square in Berlin, Germany. A man with a briefcase asks directions from him. Pedestrians pass by. Another police officer gives direction to the traffic. Traffic passes by on a busy road. German gasoline station or petrol station in background with sign "Tank" and sign "Gasolin". Cars, buses and a horse driven cart pass by.
Opening slate states that President Wilson arrives by his yacht, "Mayflower," in New York City, to campaign for re-election. The yacht is seen anchored in New York waters as a motor launch, crewed by U.S. sailors, conveys the President and his party to the shore. Closeup of the launch docking. A Navy Lieutenant Commander aboard the launch emerges from below (possibly the Captain of the Mayflower) and positions himself to assist the President and Mrs. Wilson, as they come up from the launch cabin. A New York City official greets the President and Mrs. Wilson and and also helps them to the dock. They are surrounded by other greeters, including the Navy Lieutenant Commander, who converses with President and Mrs. Wilson. The party begins to climb a ramp from the dock. Scene shifts to a somewhat chaotic gathering of people through which the President and party make their way through crowds pressing on all sides, in an open automobile behind an escort of five mounted New York City policemen. They are followed by more motorcars and mounted policemen. Views from somewhat above, of dense crowd of people
French colonial authorities install Mohammed Ben Aarafa as the new sultan of Morocco (a French protectorate). Moroccan policemen frisk arrested supporters for the growing Moroccan independence movement. Policemen take away an arrested Moroccan man. Moroccan Berber tribesmen converge together. Honor guards participate during the ceremony placing Ben Aarafa on the Alouite Throne. Moroccans salute to the new sultan Mohammad Ben Aarafa. General Augustin Guillaume, the French resident-general of Morocco, presents the felicitations of his government to the new sultan in the Dar al-Makhzen palace in Rabat, Morocco.
A uniformed Berlin Policeman helps a young girl cross the busy street. A woman takes direction from the policeman. Pedestrians stand on sides of the roads. Men, work at a construction site in the roadway. An electric trolley car (tram) passes in the background and a horse-drawn cart passes in foreground. Two construction workers perch precariously as they work on steel framework of a tall building high above the street. Elevated train passes through a building as truck passes underneath on the street. View of elevated train from a building, high above. Crowded open air market with vendors, wagons, trucks, horse-drawn wagons. A woman vendor wraps fresh fish in newspaper for woman customer. Pair of horses in traces eat together from feed trough. Two men on horse-drawn wagon carrying cargo of beer barrels. Production line in beer factory. Workers seal barrels of beer. Machine fills beer bottles.
A nurse talks and laughs with two girls. She gives a bottle with nipple to one, who drinks from it. Modern curvilinear multi-story residential apartment buildings. Trains pass above each other on crossing railroad bridges, while an excursion boat and barge pass below on a river. Trucks and electric trams pass on the street. Berlin Policeman directs traffic. A massive clock tower. Men at an outdoor soup kitchen. A Berlin policeman is among those eating soup. German people sit in an open-air sidewalk restaurant. Chefs prepare food in the kitchen. Dishes cleaned in the kitchen. Food is served to the diners. Double decker buses pass by. Women squeeze sausage links from an extruding device. Sausages placed on racks. Men drink beverages and eat at a restaurant counter. Railroad porter sits on train station platform and eats a sandwich while people walk past, behind him. Old man, driver of horse-drawn carriage, wearing top hat and heavy coat, sits atop the carriage eating a sandwich. Petrol station attendant services an automobile in the gasoline station. Man on sidewalk eats items from a paper bag. Woman decorating store window behind him. Bicycle parked against building.
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