Fliers announces government investment in Childersburg, Alabama, amounting to $100 million, to build 400 houses,improve water and sewer systems, schools, and the like. Workers throng the gates of a defense plant. Workers' cars fill its parking lot. Local workers doing business at the Isbell National Bank of Talladega. People on the sidewalks by the Martin movie theater, in Talladega. Workers marching in a Labor Day parade, followed by a fire engine, decorated automobiles, a float with sign identifying its sponsor as "Local 151 of Paperworkers Union." A car carrying a sign reading "Roofers Local 175, Anniston." The parade also includes a truck with sign reading:"Products of Alabama Pipe Company, Local 444," and two more cars sponsored by local Anniston labor unions.
Richard Hunt's sculptures in Chicago, Illinois. Richard outside with his daughter on a winter day in Chicago near lake shore. Chicago skyscrapers in the background through fog. He takes his daughter on back. He talks with his daughter in an arboretum or indoor greenhouse garden, examining the forms of plants and commenting on how they influence his art works. Richard with another artist examining one of Hunt's sculptures in progress. They talk to each other. Richard preparing a sculpture with a mold over it for kiln firing. He weighs stones in a large beam balance, puts stones on a small trolley and moves it. They make it hot and pour liquid into molding vessel. They knock away the mold and examine the sculpture to see if it was cast as he intended.
Bus moves along Lenox Avenue, on a snowy day, in Harlem, New York City. People pass the Club Baron, at 437 Lenox Avenue. House of dentist J L Lager. The Carlina Baptist Church. A sign reads "Sports Rest Barber Shop". Shop of cleaner and a bar restaurant. A photo studio. Photos displayed at shop.
Scenes during winter with heavy snow on the ground and covering cars and street. Traffic Department sign reads "Street closed 11:30 AM - 1 PM school days play area." in Harlem or East Harlem, New York City. Vehicles pass by on street. School children come out of a gate and start playing with snow. Mix of children of various ethnic backgrounds (Italian, Puerto Rican, African American) talk among themselves, smile, and play.
Vehicles on street in Harlem, New York City. Street is wet, but cars parked along the street are snow-covered. City transit train on tracks. Sign reads "125th street". A sign reads "Welcome Adam C Powell" at Upper Park Avenue Baptist Church. Cars pass under a bridge which reads "Passenger Station". Train at bridge. A sign reads "Grand Union Hotel Room by day or week, White Rose". Clothes for children and women at a shop. Snow outside a building. Broken window of a house. Children stand.
Film opens showing members of an African American family seated on the porch of their house in the Cooper River District of South Carolina. They are all engaged, including the father, in weaving, what in those days were called, "Congo Baskets." (The grass used by these basket makers is indigenous to the Cooper River District, and not found elsewhere. But the same type of baskets are made in various parts of Lowcountry Africana, associated with the Geechee-Gullah culture in the Sea Islands of South Carolina and Georgia.) As the basket makers work, a man, with a pig on a leash, walks slowly past the busy family. In the next scene, while others continue working on their baskets, the man deftly cuts Palmetto leaves into strips that are used to sew the baskets. Next, the camera focuses on individual workers showing their dexterity and skill as they work. In the final scene, the man examines and displays finished baskets of several different designs.
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