Film begins showing steel framework for a new war plant under construction during World War 2. Next, workers are seen painting aircraft parts at the Vultee aircraft plant in Downey California. A crane at the plant moves an aircraft tail section to mate with the forward fuselage of an airplane. Cranes move wing segments through the plant. Workers, including a woman, lower a radial engine into place at the front of a BT-13 Valiant training airplane. A line of such aircraft is seen behind the one the camera is focused on. Scene shifts to the Lockheed aircraft plant in Burbank, California, where bodies of Lockheed Model 14 Super Electra passenger planes are seen covering the factory floor. A glimpse of Lockheed B-24 Liberator bombers in an assembly line next to men working engines of a partially assembled Electra 14 aircraft. Lockheed P-38 lightning fighter planes being assembled at another part of the plant. A P-38 taxis past a line of parked Lockheed Hudson light bombers and takes off on a test flight. View from below of gleaming aluminum P-38 climbing out. Aerial view from above of P-38 flying over land near some mountains.
Views of six Boeing B-17B bombers in flight over California. They fly in loose formation over clouds. The snow-covered San Jacinto mountains are seen in the background.
Shows world's biggest bomber Douglas B-19 in Douglas Plant. Workers working on Douglas B-19 and inspecting. Close view of bomber wheels.
Lieutenant Raymond Morse and other pilots playing football while in training at Moffett Field. Pilots standing near planes in flight line. View of pilots in football gear. Lieutenant Raymond Morse and other pilots playing football. Pilots pushing the wings of a moving plane as part of exercise.
U.S. Navy aircraft SNC-1 trainers on ramp in flight line. SNC-1 taxiing and taking off, early in World War 2 period for pilot training.
Documentary titled, 'Barriers and Passes' on the life of Japanese-Americans living in United States during World War II. View of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California. Ships underway in harbor and Ferry Terminal of San Francisco seen. Skyscrapers, busy city streets and heavy vehicular traffic in city of San Francisco. Japanese-American children exit the Japanese Church of Christ. Three children pose with a banner reading, 'Japanese Church of Christ'. Children make handicrafts. Japanese-American students read in a library. Japanese-American men and women pose beside a movie camera. An American soldiers checks papers of a Japanese-American couple.