A film about state parks in during the Great Depression California, United States. View of ocean inlets at Russian Gulch State Park. Waves break at a rocky coast. Men work to clear ocean wreckage and obstructions in park roads. Civilian Conservation Corps men clear wreckage at a California beach. The volunteers work to construct roads. A boxing match between two CCC volunteers.
Opening newsreel slate reads: "Roosevelt inspects GA. Farm Colony." President Franklin D. Roosevelt is seen driving his 1931 Plymouth Phaeton car with hand controls, along a rural road on the way to visit the Pine Valley Farm Colony established by the Works Projects Administration of Georgia. In change of scene, camera shows a poultry farm with the farmer walking through broadcasting grain to feed the chickens. Another scene shows three farmers walking through and examining their crop of cabbages. Next, cattle are seen in a field. Scene changes again to focus on the President's car driving onto the the Pine Valley farms. A large number of the community are crowded around to greet him. Closeups of serious-looking school children watching the President. Closeups of unsmiling men in the group. Closeup of President Roosevelt at the controls of the car, with his personal secretary, Marguerite Alice "Missy" LeHand sharing the front seat. Two unidentified men occupy the rear seat. View of large number of somber community resident spectators, packed together near trees with whitewash partway up their trunks. Roosevelt maneuvers his car to the right, where spectators stand behind a rope line.
Our own United States film 'Harbor Lights' pictures New York harbor. Ship Elizabeth and other vessels navigate into New York Harbor. Freighter passes by with Statue of Liberty in the background. Cunard sign.
Children arrive at school in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina. Girls and boys enter the building with paint buckets in hand (perhaps lunch buckets). View of a small wooden outhouse or shed behind the school building.
Jack Dempsey, the former boxing heavyweight champion, is presented with a cow. Jack Dempsey with the cow on the streets of New York. The cow boards a taxi in humorous scene. Jack Dempsey takes the cow out from the truck and leads it into a residence or restaurant with name "Jack Dempsey" on sign beside the door. A chef in full cooking uniform follows behind, as if to imply it will be eaten.
A group of women decorate a snow covered tree in Washington State. Santa Claus appears at a distance, pulling a donkey with antlers attached to its head. Santa Claus gives gifts, including a doll, to the women in front of a snow covered tree.