Solar eclipse scenes from United States. Scientists and people from round the country gather their equipment and apparatus to witness the solar eclipse. Telescopic photography of the event is done from numerous locations of the country. People wear protective eye-gear to see the eclipse. Close ups of the Sun's corona during the total eclipse.
Industrial jobs coming available in various parts of the United States during the Great Depression. Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania: Wide of oil drilling operations and oil derricks. Workers at the Sun Oil Company. Long line of men showing up for work, including white and African American workers. Men hand-digging trenches for oil and gas pipelines, instead of using machines, giving work to hundreds of men, instead of just the twelve men it would require with machines. Detroit, Michigan: Workers called back to work at the United States Rubber Company (later Uniroyal). Cue of workers passing through the entrance door with sign overhead "Let's Get it done! It can be done!" and then punching time cards as hey head back to work. Scenes of manufacturing and assembly work by women workers and male workers inside the rubber company, and a rubber tire being made in the factory. Joliet, Illinois: Lines of workers entering the Mayflower Wallpaper Mill. Men rolling large rolls of the paper through the mill. Views of wallpaper manufacturing. Dayton, Ohio: Views of workers entering the National Cash Register Company factory. Workers assembling and testing cash registers before they are placed on conveyor belts.
Business developments in various parts of United States. The rate of employment increases as developments occur. Increasing number of workers with jobs shown working during the Great Depression. Connersville, Indiana: Men working in an automobile industry. Workers with heavy machines work on various parts of automobile. Men loading lumber planks onto belts for processing through saws that cut wooden parts for use in automobiles. Cincinnati, Ohio: Men and women working in an Ivory Soap manufacturing company. Workers pack Ivor Soap bars in boxes. Worcester, Massachusetts: Women workers busy stitching corsets in a leading corset manufacturing company. Detroit, Michigan: Men work in Burroughs typewriter manufacturing company. Men check typewriters.
In Ohio,US farmer William Kendall make sculptures and funny faces from pumpkins. He works on the pumpkin and carves facial parts by knife. Sculptures placed on the table and on the fence. Kendall paints the sculptures with a drawing brush. A small girl sits near him as he works on pumpkin sculptures. These sculptures pay him more instead of farming.
USS Akron, helium filled zeppelin dirigible (ZRS-4) approaches USS Patoka, fleet oiler in the United States. Aerial view of USS Akron. USS Patoka in the sea. USS Akron tilts. It approaches USS Patoka.
N2Y-1 training planes, with trapeze-hook equipment, practice hooking onto USS Akron (ZRS-4) dirigible in the United States. USS Akron in flight. N2Y-1 training plane hooked onto it. Another plane attempts to hook onto the Akron but misses. The N2Y-1 tries again and then flies away.