Different groups dance in the fairground. Crowd watching the dance. Girls dressed as Indians and in colonial dresses dance. Boys dressed as Indians and in colonial dresses dance. European dances performed.
A Model N Ford in field. Adult boys and girls perform square dancing. Square dance group gathered around Model N Ford. European dances performed.
A Model N Ford in field. Square dance group gathers and performs around Model N Ford. European dances performed. Spectators in the stands watch performances. Fancy ballroom dance performed on field.
United States Secretory of State, Cordell Hull, seated in his office in United States. He places important documents into a folder. He dons his hat and walks out of the office. He waves his hand and walks past the corridor.
Recovery efforts from the Great Depression in the United States. (Footage largely from mid 1930's, produced in 1967). A farmer plows his field using oxen. Men and women work in fields. Price tags on food products. Officials of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration in an office discuss reforms to solve farming over production and low demand. Statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial. The White House building. Scenes of dilapidated farms and fields overcome by drought and dust bowl conditions. Farmers sit outside their houses fatigued and exhausted. Faces of tired, fatigued farmers. A town meeting of farmers in a small town. Franklin Roosevelt with cabinet and other officals in early days of his administration. Floods in Tennessee Valley washing away farmland. Farmland scarred by erosion lines and trenches. The Tennessee Valley Authority builds dams and power plants in the Tennessee Valley and helps farmers reclaim and improve land. Farmers in a rural town listen to a Tennessee Valley Authority official present plans of development. Establishment of Rural Electrification Administration. Electric power lines set up in the rural areas of the United States. Franklin Roosevelt addressing the U.S. Congress in the Capitol. Scenes from voting centers and of a voting booth in an American town. Wendell Willkie addressing a crowd. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt converses with an African American official (possibly in connection with signing of Executive Order 8802, the Fair Employment Act). Eleanor Roosevelt behind him, and Secretary of State Edward Stettinius, Jr. to her left. Eleanor Roosevelt speaking to group of African American children.
Pursuit Airplanes of United States Army Air Corps. CURTIS XP-17 Pursuit Airplane. A single seater experimental pursuit airplane with a wright 'V-1460' engine and developing 480 HP. A man climbs down the plane. The engine of plane runs. A pilot in the plane. The XP-17 taxis at the Wright Field.