WPA (Works Progress Administration) workers help in stopping fire in a forest in the United States during the Great Depression. Wildfire raging in a forest. Smoke and flames seen among trees. The WPA workers get in trucks. They drive towards the area where fire took place. They get emerge from trucks and fight the fire with limited equipment and limited protective clothing. Men cut the trees. The trees burning. The men place sand with shovels. They spray water with a hose. Black smoke in sky. Men dig holes in the region.
American Legion Parade in the United States. The New York harbor. Formation of three P-3As in flight over New York City. The pilot at controls. Formation of fifty aircraft flying over New York City during American Legion Parade.
United States Navy flying boat PBY Catalina of Patrol Squadron Six (V-P-6) in flight to Honolulu. American flying boat Consolidated PBY Catalina in water with monoplane construction and retractable wing floats. Mountains in the background. The PBY takes off. A boat in the water in the background. The PBY taxis down the ramp into the water. The aircraft handlers go over to take off the beaching gear. The PBY taxis. PBY fly in formation and heads for Pearl Harbor.
The services of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the United States. Skilled workers are hired for the libraries and school. They repair and rebind the books. Books in shelves. Traveling libraries and mobile libraries in trucks bring books to more rural areas. People enter a traveling library on wheels. Nurses visit homes of people and instructing the maternity care of the children to their mothers. A nurse bathing an infant. Braille maps being developed. The blind people are instructed about the use of the Braille maps. Trachoma eye disease patients in rural areas are examined. Nurses examine them and they are taken to WPA clinics. Group of men, women, and children wait in clinic to be seen by nurse or doctor. People including a young girl and an older man taking eye and vision tests, reading eye charts, and being examined.
The production of the twenty-five millionth Ford car in the United States. Henry Ford and Edsel Ford in the car coming off the final assembly line. Henry Ford seated on a quadracycle. Edsel Ford seated in the car. They shake hands and pose.
Prisoners wait for mental status examination in prison. Sign says “Psychiatrist”. A prison psychiatrist talks to a despondent-looking prisoner. Prisoner answers the psychiatrist and eventually smiles and laughs. Prison psychiatrist smiles after prisoner’s examination.