Three California police officers search numerous makeshift shelters, looking for indigents during the Great Depression. The officers approach an abandoned car body. They try to open the door, look under the covers of the hood and inspect the body. A ramshackle hut on the field, covered with stones, logs and rags. The officers inspect the hut, look into an opening on one side and walk around it. The officers inspect empty cartons and empty glass bottles on a table. A broken rack outside a hut in a poverty stricken area. Things in an abandoned cart nearby. They inspect another shack, open the window and look inside. Dilapidated huts and shacks and covered vehicles. The cops inspect many huts, look inside, try to open doors and windows. Posters cover a wall of one hut. They inspect the interior. An old car. The officers approach a shack as a man emerges from inside.
Three California police officers search shacks for indigents. The police officers stand outside one of the huts and a man emerges from it. Officers walk inside to inspect the ramshackle hut. They walk up to another hut. A group of men comes out of the hut and the officers look inside. The police officers escort group of indigents along a railroad track. Old people come out of another ramshackle hut.
A freight train moves on a railway track. Trainmen are seen on top of the box cars, and one on the caboose, who waves a flag. Police officers inspect vehicles on a nearby road in California. A sign reads 'California Inspection Station, Department of Agriculture'. California police officer speaks to car drivers and inspects vehicles before they drive past. Occasionally, the officer directs a car to pull off the road. A sign reads 'Stop State Officers'.
Painter Alex Lockhart paints the highest span at Royal Gorge bridge in Colorado. He swings perilously 1053 feet above the Arkansas River from the girders of the highest bridge. Alex Lockhart swings on a rope as he paints the bridge.
Training film titled: 'The Cavalry Rifle Platoon from mounted to dismounted action' on transition of cavalry troops from mounted to dismounted combat troops in Kansas. Soldiers ride horses on a field. A simulated invasion exercise. Machine Gun and Rifle Platoons dismount and prepare for action.
Transition of cavalry troops from mounted to dismounted combat troops in Kansas. Four soldiers of the Rifle Squad ride horses on a field. Their leader gives signal and three of the soldiers dismount from their horses. Stress is placed on proper care and handling of the horses. Various methods of finding cover and securing horses. A platoon dismounts from the horses. Troops advance on the field. Four soldiers ride horses on the field. They dismount from the horses. A gun crew advances on the field. The Cavalry Rifle Platoon moves forward.