A snake gets caught in a spider web in Elgin, Illinois. The snake after it got caught in a spider web in the cellar of a local banker.
A large number of men and women shown returning to work in the United States during the Great Depression. Film aims to boost morale during Depression. A large number of workers enter an electrotype company factory in Cincinnati, Ohio. Men work on various machines as they manufacture advertising mats and cuts for use in newspapers and magazines. Mats and cuts being packed in wooden crates. Men at a furniture plant in Portland, Oregon. Men work on wooden planks as they make furniture for homes. Workers at an electrical and house heating appliances plant weld parts of appliances. Men construct oil burners at a plant in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. In La Salle, Illinois a large number of men and women workers enter a building with a sign "Big Ben Western Clock Company." Men and women manufacture clocks inside the plant.
A 50 mile sweepstakes car race in Langhorne, Pennsylvania. Cars race ahead of each other on a dirt track as 23,000 spectators watch the race. Driver Ken Douglas skids on a turn and hits a ditch during the race. Douglas being carried away on a stretcher for medical aid. The race continues. Bill Cummings smiles after winning the race.
Greater Underwater Propulsion Power modification Program ( GUPPY ) being conducted by the United States Navy to enhance its submarines. U.S.submarine, the USS Corporal (SS-346) alongside a dock. Crew standing on deck. The submarine barely moving along the side of the dock. A radar antenna fastened to the conning tower. A sailor removes a vertical item from the deck and carries it forward as the sub slowly moves. View of a different, unidentified submarine at a dock. (Last frame of clip shows top of conning tower without radar antenna.) Crew members walk up a gangplank as they come aboard the submarine.
Judges of the U.S. Supreme Court arrive at the White House in Washington DC, United States. The judges arrive at the White House. They all pose for cameramen outside the White House before meeting the President.
A football game in Baltimore, Maryland. Highlights of the game between the Navy Midshipmen team from the U.S. Naval Academy and Cornell University team. 45,000 spectators gather to watch the game. The navy team wins the game 14-0 after defeating the team from Cornell.
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