American aviator Howard Hughes completes his trip around the world and is greeted by a crowd at Floyd Bennett Field in New York, United States. A crowd await the arrival of Howard Hughes. Hangar with sign for "Erickson & Remmert" pilot school and airplane repair facility on building. A Lockheed L-14 Super Electra passenger aircraft banking overhead for landing. The aircraft taxis on an airfield. The crowd and newsmen surround the L-14 aircraft as Howard Hughes emerges from it. Hughes at a microphone. He moves past the crowd in a car.
Damage due to a hurricane in Rhode Island, United States. Wrecked vehicles and equipment on streets. People gather on the streets. Rubbled houses and buildings. A wrecked car on a street.
A lake in Upstate New York. Man walks in a dock on the lake. Snow covers the lake shore. New York City skyscrapers at night. A ship sailing past the Statue of Liberty. Smoke rises from funnel of ship.
People attend a church service in upstate New York. Churchgoers enter a white church building in a rural area. A man leads a children’s choir. Choir singing inside Christian church. A river in New York. Aerial view of the river, hills, and farmlands in New York state. A boat is seen sailing on a river.
Cars driving at a rural highway in New York. Highway, roadside farmlands, telephone poles, and houses as seen from a moving car. Camera zooms closer to view rural houses and front yards. Haystacks in a farm. Hills and trees in rural upstate New York.
Scene of crowd gathered at Bellevue Hospital, New York. William Ahern, the psychiatric patient threatens to jump from the 9th floor ledge of the hospital. Fireman T J Kehoe comes at the last moment and with the help of some others saves the patient.