Salem Barrack demonstrates his miniature 'Ornithopter', a flying machine, at the Newark Airport in New Jersey. The elastic powered plane makes a successful flight of several minutes.
Scenes of race riots in Newark, New Jersey. Houses on fire. Policemen patrols the area. An armored personnel carrier moves down the street at night. Destroyed shops and cars in the African American ghetto district. Police, State Troopers and National Guardsmen exchange shots with rooftop and window snipers. Stores are wrecked burned and looted. Troops make several arrests.
Unemployed men in Newark, New Jersey during the Great Depression. Disturbance at railroad and dockyard being brought under control by policemen on horseback. Train and ships in background. A sign reads 'No men wanted'. Men sleep on park benches. A man holds a sign reading 'Unemployed'. Men sleep in doorways Sidewalk soup kitchen. View of shacks and an order by the Department of Health declaring them unfit for human habitation and ordering them vacated at once. Order is signed by Charles V. Craster, M,D, D.P.H., Health Officer.
American aviator Howard Hughes flies from coast to coast in 7 ½ hours. Hughes exits out of cockpit of Hughes H-1 Racer plane in Newark, New Jersey. Crowd surrounds the plane. Cameraman atop a car. Hughes H-1 Racer being pushed by men towards a hangar.
Long Dance Grind in Dreamland Park Pavilion, Newark, New Jersey. Joie Ray teamed with Alice Krug of St Albans. Contestants dance in pavilion. Audience watches and claps. Man shaves while his partner holds the mirror and water container. They come to table and eat food. Tired men and women lean on their partners. A woman carries another woman and put her on bed. Man carries his partner. A woman gets a letter which reads 'Ludille, When are you coming home? Children are crying for you.' A man falls. A man sleeps on his partner's shoulder, while she reads newspaper.
Called the "Newark Athlete" the first scenes depict a boy exercising with Indian clubs. Another scene shows a man doffing his straw hat. The final segment shows two boxers in a ring. Filmed at Edison Laboratory, West Orange, New Jersey
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