Lighthouses in the United States. Views of various lighthouse. Building beside lighthouses. Relief light ship underway at Portland station. Lighthouse tender underway. Portland, Maine lighthouse depot.
Former President of Czechoslovakia Edvard Beneš arrives in the United States. He is accompanied by his wife, Hana Benešová. Officers and dignitaries gather in a hall. Benes addressing the people. He praises the American freedom and democracy.
Officers seated in an office in the United States. U.S. Secretary of War Harry Woodring and Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army General George Marshall seated at a desk in the office. They discuss a map.
Biplane aircraft landing on a United States aircraft carrier at sea. Landing signal officer uses flags to communicate signals to approaching Naval Aircraft Factory N3N biplanes. View of the flight deck of carrier as N3N-3 comes in for landing. Naval Aircraft Factory N3N biplanes land on aircraft carrier. Some officers stand near the landing signal officer. Men approach parked biplanes with USA insignia.
Over supply of produce due to mechanization causes crisis for tenant farmers during the Great Depression in the United States. In Iowa: Farmland with a farm house, haystacks, cows and pigs. American farmer brings hay stacked in a wagon. A woman pulls a horse to haul the load up through an opening into the barn. Horses work on a farm, machines on a farm. A corn field. Farmers operate a corn harvester. A wheat harvester at work in a wheat field. Poor farmers and women of farm families wait outside a building to get government distributed food, due to Great Depression and glut in wheat and corn prices due to overproduction. Men, women and children stand in bread line seeing food aid. Close up views of tired and desperate farming men and women in need of relief. They fill their containers, sacks and bags with food and leave.
Hollywood film stars try summer ski. Universal stars and starlets ski on grassy slopes.