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Maxim M. Litvinov, Russian Commissar of Foreign Affairs arrives in United States and meets Cordell Hull.
Russian Commissar of Foreign Affairs, Maxim M. Litvinov, arrives in United States to resume diplomatic relations that have been suspended 16 years. The Cunard liner, Berengaria, arrives at the New York harbor,carrying Mr. Litvinov, who speaks to reporters. He greets the people, boards a train and leaves for Washington DC. U.S. Secretary of State, Cordell Hull, greets Litvinov in Washington DC. He leaves for the White House to meet President Roosevelt in the President's personal car. Policemen on motorbikes escort the motorcade to the White House.
Celebrations and drinking after Prohibition law is repealed in United States; also barrel busting scene during prohibition
Prohibition comes to an end in United States. Huge team of horses or mules seen pulling a wheat harvesting machine on an American farm. View of team of horses from side on field, and as seen from beside the farmer's seat driving the horses. Women at a bottling plant hammer tops onto liquor or beer bottles. Women workers on an assembly line finish labels on bottle tops as liquor is prepared for shipment. Elevated view at a production plant as a group of factory or production workers arrives for a shift at the plant. A wooden barrel being manufactured by a Cooper. Wooden barrels are rolled down skids from a truck and into a storage area, ready for filling. A truck filled with beer barrels drives past a large lit sign that says "Chicago." Close up view of beer taps as hand of a bartender opens a tap and pours a glass of beer. Couples in night clubs dancing in celebration. People gathered at tables drinking liquor. Two women dancers dance in a stage show dance wildly as a band plays and patrons look on. Retrospective scene shows "barrel buster" agents destroying barrels of beer or liquor with axes, earlier, during prohibition. Beer or liquor spills all over the floor as the barrels are smashed.
U.S. Economic Depression and establishment of the Civilian Conservation Corps.
A deserted factory building. Sign 'For Sale' on one of the Unemployed men on bread lines during the Great Depression. Crowds gather as politicians and agitators hold outdoor rallies. Signs of various employment agencies over store fronts where men are gathered seeking work. Job seekers sitting on sidewalks outside possible workplaces. Men sleeping on lawn in public park. Police arrest agitators. President Franklin D Roosevelt speaks about the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). Copy of the bill (S.598) establishing the CCC. Newspaper headlines passage of "Labor Army Bill." Another reads: "House Votes Reforestation Plan to Give 250,000 Jobs..." Employment news in various newspapers and magazines. A man talks on phone. Men queued up, in 1935, to join the CCC. A woman stops to converse with some of them. CCC recruits, supervised by U.S. Army personnel, line up to receive clothing and equipment, before starting several weeks of Army boot camp. They board trucks and vans. The Army sets up a mess line on a sidewalk where recruits eat before boarding a large double-decker bus. Recruits wave from several other buses as they depart for their respective training camps. Audio is present in some brief portions only in the second half of the clip.
Hollywood actor Dick Powell composes and sings "The Road is Open Again" for the National Recovery Administration
Framed photographs of Presidents George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Woodrow Wilson on a wall. A song writer writes a song on behalf of the National Recovery Administration (NRA). He falls asleep while writing the song. As he "dreams" actors portraying Washington, Lincoln and Wilson appear in his room asking him why he wants to write such a song and they're reassuring him that Franklin D Roosevelt is the right way. When he starts singing his new song, he finds himself alone, but he knows that Franklin Delano Roosevelt will lead the USA back on the road to prosperity. He sings "The Road is Open Again". Film is a National Recovery Administration and New Deal propaganda piece during the Great Depression.
Transportation of raw materials and screening of gravels and sand during the construction of Boulder Dam in the United States.
The preparation and transportation of raw materials for the construction of Boulder Dam on the Colorado River in the United States. A crane and a train near the dam site. Sand and gravel picked from a pit by the crane and loaded in to rail cars. Trains arrive at a screening plant. A man near a train. The sand and gravel dumped into hoppers. Conveyor belts carry the material to the plant. A man near a conveyor belt. A man watches equipment screening over sized pebbles. A man near the screening plant. The screening plant with four towers for separating gravel of different size. Conveyor belts carry the screened gravel. Three different piles of gravel formed. Sand combined in a mixer. The towers of the plant in view. A man in a tower. Conveyor belts load the material into rail cars for transportation.
Mixing plants at the site and rail cars carry materials during the construction of Boulder Dam in the United States.
The transportation of raw materials for the construction of Boulder Dam on the Colorado River in the United States. A plant at the bottom of a canyon. Rail cars arrive at the plant. Concrete mixers in the plant. Another plant on the Nevada rim over the dam site. Rail cars arrive at a mixing plant with sand and gravel. Bins in the mixing plant to store sand and gravel. A vehicle on a road along the canyon. Rail cars on a track with 'Six Companies Inc.' painted on it, the company to which the contract of the dam construction has been awarded. The rail cars unload sand and gravel at the plant. Men operate pumps to unload bulk cement. Rail cars carrying cement arrive at the mixing plant. Huge concrete mixers in the plant.