A film on U.S. electric power resources. The Burlington route Pioneer Zephyr diesel-powered railroad train in the United States. The train moves along a railway track. It passes over a bridge. An aircraft in flight overhead. A man walks across a field.
View from Niagara River gorge of the exterior of the Schoellkopf Power Generating Station, operated by New York's Niagara Power Company. The turbine deck of the power plant, with turbines being driven by water of Niagara Falls. Bank of electric generators in operation. Change of scene to open gondola rail cars containing coal for a power plant. A steam locomotive pulling a freight train. An electric powered freight train of the Virginian Railway moving through snowy landscape over its electrified 134-mile track in the mountains,from Mullens, West Virginia, over Clark's Gap, to Roanoke, Virginia. A coal car being emptied by a tipper.
A film on U.S. electric power resources. A modern steam power station in the United States. Interior of the power plant. Machines and equipment in the plant. A man works on a machine. A map locates power plants in a broad area of the mid-Atlantic and Northeast U.S., including Pennsylvania, Ohio, and New York. The map legend cites different fuels including coal and oil.
A film on U.S. electric power resources. A part of Thomas Alva Edison's original laboratory, now at the Dearborn Memorial Park. A man seated at a desk. He makes light bulbs by hand.
Development of air power. Mooring of U.S. Navy airship USS Los Angeles in the United States. The airship comes in and is moored to USS Potoka out on the water. The ship underway at sea. Interior of a helium producing plant at Fort Worth in Texas.
Activities of the U.S. Army Air Corps in the United States. Formation of 18 B-10s in flight. 300 lb bombs are dropped from the aircraft. Train of bombs exploding in the field. Smoke due to explosion. Formation of B-10s in flight over clouds. Two 16 inches railroad guns. One of the railroad guns is fired. Crewmen loading the gun. A major sighting through a range finder.