A snake gets caught in a spider web in Elgin, Illinois. The snake after it got caught in a spider web in the cellar of a local banker.
The Democratic nominee for the Presidential elections being welcomed in Los Angeles, California. Nearly 300,000 people gather along a road to welcome New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, Democratic nominee for the Presidential election. Roosevelt with others in a car. Roosevelt takes off his hat and waves at the crowd. People lined up along the road for welcoming Governor Roosevelt.
A 50 mile sweepstakes car race in Langhorne, Pennsylvania. Cars race ahead of each other on a dirt track as 23,000 spectators watch the race. Driver Ken Douglas skids on a turn and hits a ditch during the race. Douglas being carried away on a stretcher for medical aid. The race continues. Bill Cummings smiles after winning the race.
Operation Desert Rock at Yucca Flats in Las Vegas, Nevada. Marines in tan overalls and wearing marine utility caps stand around Marine Corps jeeps near Yucca Flats, an atomic bomb test area. Two marines drive away in a jeep. An aircraft in flight as it leaves a vapor trail. The marines stand in desert as they wear utilities, cartridge belts, helmets. The marines carry rifles and BAR's( Browning Automatic Rifle). A small self propelled gun and LVT ( Landing Vehicle Tracked) in the background. A small board sticks out of sand. The marines walk by emplacements and look down into a foxhole. A member of a radiation team. A walkie talkie laid on the ground. Batteries and other equipment on the ground preceding test shot Dog of Operation Tumbler-Snapper.
Operation Desert Rock nuclear bomb test at Yucca Flats in Las Vegas, Nevada. A discarded walkie talkie lying on a sack on the ground. A dummy dressed like a man lying on the ground. Discarded vehicles, tanks and guns left around the area for testing the effects of nuclear blast. A mannequin in a foxhole. A dummy lying with two M1 rifles. A U.S. Marine walks into an underground trench. He prepares a dummy and then walks out again, all prior to test shot Dog during Operation Tumbler-Snapper of Desert Rock Exercises.
Desert Rock Exercises (Desert Rock IV) underway for testing of nuclear weapon at Yucca Flats area of Nevada Proving Ground outside Las Vegas, Nevada. Test shot Dog. Squad tents pitched to form a bivouac area at Camp Desert Rock, south of Camp Mercury. Mountains in the background. Giant white cloud of smoke rises from behind the mountains due to detonation of nuclear weapon during Operation Tumbler-Snapper. This was shot "Dog," a 19 kiloton TX-7 device airdrop in Area 7. A mushroom cloud forms. Soldiers watch the smoke rising after the testing of the nuclear bomb device known as Dog.
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