United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt sails on Astor's Yacht, Nourmahal for 10 days vacation at sea in Jacksonville, Florida. President Roosevelt with his son and other officials aboard the yacht. He waves his hat to the crowd. Ascot Yacht sails away from the harbor for a trip to the Bahamas.
Tornado sweeps the city in New Orleans, Louisiana. Civilians clear debris. Mass of wreckage, scattered houses, damaged automobiles and furniture in the city. People repairing houses. Civilians standing on streets with debris all around them.
Police fight strike pickets in Camden, New Jersey. Three thousand men walk outside the New York Shipbuilding company plant. A dispute between officers and strikers marks labor difficulties at the Worsted Mill in Cleveland. View of smokestacks of industrial factory with smoke coming out. Men entering factory and standing in line to punch their time cards at the start of a a work shift. Men at work inside automobile plants, assembling cars in Detroit, after U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt settled the dispute between laborers and manufactures in the motor industry.
Mexicans celebrate the spring festival in Santa Anita, Mexico. Men, women and children dressed in costumes dance through the streets of the ancient city. Women on horseback during the flower festival. A young girl dances to hail the arrival of spring.
Film begins showing a hen with four kittens in a wooden box. A young girl reaches into the box and removes one of the kittens, placing it into an everready battery cardboard box. She removes a second kitten. She reaches in again and the hen, who is sitting on an egg (unseen) reaches out to peck her. But the girl persists and pulls another kitten from behind the hen. The girl removes the last kitten from the box, as the hen stands up revealing the egg she is sitting on. She moves about in the barnyard. Meanwhile the mother cat gathers up her kittens in the barnyard
An anti-skid tire being tested in Paris, France. A tread tire for automobiles being demonstrated on slippery street by its inventor. Technician places tread on the tire. Demonstration of cars stopping without skidding. A motor car equipped with old style tread hits a woman injuring her during the tryout.