Christening of the USS Franklin D Roosevelt at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York, United States. Several submarines underway at the river. U.S. sailors aboard the submarines. They fire 21 inches gun salute. Smoke arises as the gun is fired. Men stand at the quarter aboard submarines. Buildings in the background. An airship in flight overhead. (World War II period).
Opening scene shows hands of a man, in overalls, as he sands a small wooden figure of a horse. Next, handicraft materials, including yarn and roughly cutout blocks of wood, are seen laid out on a table. The hands of a woman are seen as she marks with pencil where some further finishing is needed on a rough cutout wooden figure of a horse. Slate quotes a Brasstown worker about satisfaction from making something with your own hands.