United States workers working in a butchery in the United States. Cattle in stockyard. Sides of beef hangs inside beef lockers. Workers cut beef with the help of machinery. Man cuts sides of beef with meat cleavers, hanging in beef locker.
People make use of electricity and labor saving devices in the United States. Electricity furnishes water under pressure at barn. Heater and extra tank provide hot and cold water. Delco-Light Water System Machine kept in a room. Man sprays water with the help of a tube outside his house. Running water in the bathrooms. Girl standing at washbasin, washes and wipes her face. She looks into the mirror and combs her hair. Woman prepares to bathe in a tub.
Farm scene. Man caries a pole on his shoulders. Officials and workers converse with each other on the field. Steam engine and threshing machine arrives on horse drawn wagon carriages. Steam engine operates a threshing pulley machine at barn. Workers put wheat into threshing machine using pitchforks.
Opening slate reads: "Los Angeles, Calif.-Bicycle rider paced by car at 80-mile clip." View of men in movie star Tom Mix’s open Auburn speedster with a streamlined windscreen fastened to the rear, shielding bicycle racer, Frank Bartell, who pedals, hunched down behind it. Closeups of him on his bicycle, pedaling rapidly. Closeups of his pedals and sprocket and chain. Wider view of him and the protective pace car moving on the roadway. A man, standing by a striped pole, lowers a flag indicating the end of the run, as they pass his position at the side of the road. Closeup of Mr. Bartell, looking somewhat disheveled and tired, after setting a bicycle land speed record of more than 80 miles per hour.
United States experimental aircraft at Edwards Air Force Base in California, United States. Bell X-2 being pulled out of the hangar. The aircraft towed by a vehicle. Ground crew members seated on Bell X-2's wings. Crew members test fire on static thrust stand. Officer covers his ears during test firing. Man seated in the cockpit of Bell X-2 while another crew member reads from a book in his hand. Ground crew fuels the aircraft.
Bell Aerosystems Test Pilot Harold Graham demonstrates Rocket Belt Flight backpack (Small Rocket Lifting Device, SRLD) on grounds of the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, United States. Man removes cover from the device kept on a table. Military personnel, Pentagon workers, and civilians gathered to watch the flight. Fire brigade along the flight area. Men, women and children stand behind barricaded area. Assistants strap Bell Aerosystems test pilot Harold Graham to the rocket belt flight device. He wears the rocket pack (some might call it a jet pack) on his back like a backpack and grips control handles that extend around to the front from the sides. He takes off from the ground. Two men dressed in traditional American colonial military costumes stand beside the pilot. Photographers take pictures.
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