Cars carrying President Franklin D Roosevelt and his party arrive at a Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Camp in the Great Depression. Members of the CCC line the dirt road and watch as the local Army supervisor speaks with the President. Roosevelt sits at a table and speaks to the assembled CCC members.
Boulder Dam site where installation work of steel pipes and concrete work is going on in the United States. The Boulder Dam site in view. Work under way in a tunnel. Rail cars bring concrete to the dam site. Construction underway at the site. Concrete taken in buckets transported by a cable way is dropped into interlocking columns. Men in the columns. A skid way in view. The structure of the dam which has risen to a considerable height. A U-shaped structure also in view.
The dedication of Boulder Dam by President Franklin Roosevelt in the United States. United States President Franklin Roosevelt speaks at a ceremony. Several dignitaries seated behind the President. The President dedicates Boulder Dam to the progress of the nation. View of whole of Boulder Dam. Vehicles pass along a road on the dam. The Lake Mead, the reservoir filling behind the dam. A boat carrying several people in the lake. Rocks in the midst of the lake.
Stoves, heaters and furniture shop in a city in United States. Construction of a house. A bed outside a house. People talk nearby the bed.
Trucks pass a bridge in a city, United States. Buildings in city. Houses on outskirts of city.
As a prank, a teenage boy maliciously convinces a younger boy to trigger a fire alarm. The younger boy reaches into a fire alarm box on a street corner and he triggers the alarm, but a manacle is affixed to his arm as he withdraws it, to mark him as the one who sounded the alarm. Fire fighters respond to the alarm. The manacle device was being employed to discourage false alarms.