Damage caused due to hurricanes on the East Coast of the United States in 1936. The roads flooded with water. Damaged electric poles. Cameramen stand in a line taking pictures in the rain. A car stuck in water. Dramatic scene of a boy and a policeman riding their bicycles in very high water. wind damaged and flood damaged buildings and houses. Men walk near the rubble and look at a damaged house. In Texas, views of flooding from rivers. A damaged railway track. A wrecked car. Men at the railway station board a train. American industrialist and billionaire John D. Rockefeller makes his annual trip to the South. He gets out of a car and boards the train. At age 97, John Rockefeller is escorted by his personnel.
Man and dog walk on a barren dry and dust-filled field destroyed during the dust bowl. Jack rabbits in the fields of the midwest during the American dustbowl. Groups of vigilantes organized in Texas and Oklahoma. They slaughter the jack rabbits which cause harm in the field. Several men with guns in the fields. The men seen with the slaughtered jack rabbits tied to their belts. Man opens jaws of dead rabbit to show its teeth.
Mineral resources in Texas. Film titled 'Glimpses of Texas'. Map of Texas. Location of Texas and its size in United States. Natural gas field at panhandle. Map shows areas containing gas and oil reserves. Oil towers and oil drilling machines. A crude oil refinery. Oil refinery in Texas manufacturing petroleum products. Cliff side gas and helium field in Texas. Exterior of main office building of helium plant in Amarillo Texas, with sign on building, "United States Bureau of Mines Helium Plant." View of office and men working near large gas storage containers. Views of sulfur producing wells. Sulfur piles and railroad train at a sulfur plant.
State Park system in Texas, United States during the Great Depression. Valley, mountains, and a pond in Texas. Big Bend national park. River in the park, man walks besides it. Map of Texas. Terrain of the park. Man sits at a CCC camp. Mountains and a valley. Casa Grande Peak in Big Bend National Park, West Texas. Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) boys engaged in construction work. Men engaged in ranching. Herd of sheep. The Grand Canyon, Chisos mountains, Chisos mountain ranges and boot canyon.