Film opens showing a muezzin reentering the minaret at the end of Via Dolorosa in the old City of Jerusalem, Palestine. Camera pans down to street level with many pedestrians. Two Palestinian merchants sit outdoors with their display of soap for sale. Closeup of a soap merchant weighing blocks of soap for a customer. Closeup of a hooded man on the street. Another closeup of a young Palestinian woman holding some flowers. A woman with a child in arms carrying a shopping basket, passes a shop keeper polishing brass ware. A merchant combing animal skins. A man pulling a cart loaded with a large bundle of goods along a narrow walkway.
Film opens showing the flying buttresses on Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem, Palestine. Scene shifts to merchants moving large bales of goods from a street into a building. Another merchant place a cargo of rugs on the back of his camel. He then feeds his kneeling camel from a bag while he adjusts and ties down his cargo. A donkey carrying large metal storage chests passes him. He completes tying down his load of rugs while his camel happily continues eating. People gather outside where merchants are offering fresh oranges from Jaffa. Customers select oranges from a large barrel and place them in small box. Men carry large woven bags, filled with oranges, on their backs. Fruit merchants tending to their wares. A man cleans cookware, using his feet, as well as his hands. Closeup of his feet scrubbing a pan in circular motion. Closeup of him with a shiny pan in his hands, that he then burnishes over a fire. Views of a young man cleaning cookware with scouring powder.
The monuments and people in ancient city of Jerusalem, Palestine. View of the Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount. Jewish rabbis pray at the wailing wall. Camera pans upward showing large expanse of wailing wall (also called Western Wall and Buraq Wall). People move out of the temple. Man on donkey. Sweeping view of David's Citadel (Tower of David), Ottoman Walls, and old city.
Invention of egg breaker and separator machine. Eggs run through a jig-saw, pulled through a vacuum in the factory. Eggs then pumped into a reservoir. Shells are discarded followed by diversification of yolk and egg-white into different compartments.
Speed boat racing at New Smyrna Beach in Volusian Country, Florida. Different views of boats racing and spectators cheering. Walter Widegren of Glen Cove, New York wins the race. Trophy presented to the winner.
Bombing by Japanese forces in Shanghai as part of the so-called "January 28 Incident" or "Shanghai Incident." Chinese civilians rush on streets of the Bund during time of attacks by aircraft from Japan. A streetcar goes by and pedestrians quickly cross streets. Japanese Major Harada talks to Japanese pilots of 8th Japanese flying squadron at Japanese airfield. Japanese swift aircraft drops bombs on North Station and destroy ancient native Chapei section of Shanghai, China. Views of wrecked city, dead bodies on road. Civilians leaving in hand carts and trucks. Civilians crossing garden bridge. Chinese troops take up defensive positions behind sandbags in bombed area of city. Bagpipes announce arrival of Argyll and Sutherland Highland Regiments from the United Kingdom. United States Marines present and on patrol at American Concession, guarding the lives of nationals in Shanghai.