Film depicts the occupations of U.S. CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) during Great Depression in the United States. CCC workers work with fences. Drift fences are erected. Grass seeds are collected from a field. Workers poison rodents. A worker examines dead rodents. Poisonous plants are eradicated.
CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) in the United States during the Great Depression. Fire control measures taken by CCC shows CCC workers using shovels to dig and build road. Construction equipment in operation. A dump truck loaded with concrete moves along road. Workers construct a bridge. Shows an old house replaced by a new one, as workers work to build a new house. Telephone lines are put up. Men construct a lookout post.
Film depicts the occupations of U.S. CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) workers in the United States during the Great Depression. CCC worker answers a phone call. A truck loaded with few workers pulls away. Truck enters into wooded area. Workers fight wildfire in woods. Workers dig soil as fire break.
Demonstration against war in the United States prior to World War 2. Pacifist anti-war demonstrators gathered around a poster which reads 'War 1914-18 25000 Millionaires - 10 Million Killed'. A picture of skeletons depicting soldiers fighting a war. A sign in the foreground reads 'Abolish Compulsory ROTC'. Cars lined up along the side of a road. People listen to a speaker.
Demonstration against war in the United States before World War II. Pacifist college age young men lampooning and portraying themselves as leaders engaged in war, which include German Chancellor Adolf Hitler, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, Japanese General Hideki Tojo, and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. The men give a Nazi salute, and place a wreath at mock tomb of an Unknown Soldier.
Reenactment shows American folk blues musician Huddie William Ledbetter (Lead Belly) singing in a prison in United States. Lead Belly and other two African American men wearing striped prison uniform in a cell. Lead Belly sings and plays a guitar. Muisicologist John Lomax appreciates folk song sung by Lead Belly and says that he has recorded the songs on recorder. lead Belly refers to sending the recording to Governor Allen (Oscar K. Allen) of Louisiana, in hopes of influencing him to commute his sentence.
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