Fashion piracy in Germany. Fashion pirates employ tricks like observing through a periscope to copy exclusive new designs. Models display new fashion creations in a room including fur coats and dresses. A pirate trying to steal dress designs looks through a keyhole in the room. Man reveals a hidden camera under his coat lapel, used to capture designs of famous designers. A woman shows a hidden camera attached to her leg. Another woman traces a design on a man's back and then it is shown that he had carbon paper under his coat to capture an image of the stolen design.
Teachers in Chicago protest pay injustice during the Great Depression, as they had not been paid for 11 months. 5,000 instructors joined by students and parents in a march and protest as they also complained about cuts in school services. Scenes from other labor strikes across United States in 1934 including shipyard and auto industry strikes. Striking workers marching. President Roosevelt intervenes in an automobile strike. President Roosevelt on Vincent Astor's yacht for a brief fishing holiday. Men in a factory or manufacturing facility punching timecards in time clocks. New automobile cars seen in production and rolling off assembly lines. Working men eat lunch beside their posts in an assembly line factory, during a break.
A newly devised non-skid tire is shown in France, 1934. The tire is shown up close and a machine is seen cutting grooves in the tire to aid with traction in all weather conditions. The non-skid tires tested on wet streets. Traffic on the streets. A woman is seen pushing a baby pram in front of a moving vehicle on rainy, wet streets. The car with older tires skids in the rain and hits the woman and baby carriage. Narrator indicates that it was a fatal accident.
President Eisenhower visits Athens on peace mission. Huge crowd gathers to cheer him on streets. United States flag. President Eisenhower at the Royal Palace of Iran with Shah of Iran (Mohammed Reza Pahlavi) in front of a portrait. In Iran President Eisenhower's motorcade through Tehran cheered by vast throngs as it rolls over Persian carpets strewn in the streets. A railing collapses. President Eisenhower receives warm reception on his visits to different countries.
Venerated Seamless Robe of Jesus relic shown at the ancient city of Trier in Germany. Crowd outside the Trier Cathedral (Trier Saint Peter's Cathedral, Liebfrauenstraße 12, 54290 Trier, Germany). A vestment purported to have been worn by Christ is displayed. It is the Seamless Robe of Jesus (also known as the Holy Robe, or the Holy Tunic, Honorable Robe, or Chiton of the Lord). United States Air Force personnel among the privileged viewing the robe. The relic is publicly shown only three times in over a century.
Strange flying scooters and automobiles go through their paces at Princeton in New Jersey. The hover craft automobiles are developed for the U.S. Army. Men seated at controls of the automobiles, seen in flight along only a few inches of the ground. The automobiles poised on drafts of air from huge fans.
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