Time lapse view of dawn breaking over Manhattan Island. Skyscrapers in New York City in 1958. People emerging from ferry to dock on their morning commute to work. Men and women pedestrians dressed in 1950s fashions cross streets as taxi cabs and 1950s era cars pass by. A man in coat and hat waiting at a bus stop, with a city bus stopped. Elevated views of pedestrians squeezing between stopped car bumbers at crowded intersections. Pigeons in a park. High Elevated views of pedestrians, traffic, crossroads, buildings, and skyscrapers of Manhattan skyline. Long views of many blocks of Manhattan buildings and streets. Shadows of tall skyscrapers falling across buildings and streets as dusk nears. Lights in skyscraper windows at night. Clouds in the background. Aerials of traffic at night. Timelapse view of sunset and night scenes in Manhattan.
Passenger ship SS United States at Newport News docks. Stacks of SS United States liner. Workers prepare for launch of ship. Crowd assembles for the Christening ceremony. Ship is christened by Mrs. Tom Connally. Liner United States floats out of the docks. Bow of liner.
Armed Forces Day parade in New York by various members of America's Defense team. American Military officers salute. West Point Cadets march up Fifth Avenue as crowd lined up at sidewalks.
East West Style show in San Francisco. Japanese woman shows a booklet titled 'Japanese Style Fashion'. American models display different dresses on a stage. Japanese and American models parade on the stage as the audience watch the show.
Track meet at Los Angeles. Athletes race for Half Mile, Quarter Mile, and the Hundred Yard Dash. Huge crowd assemble to watch athletes. Newsmen and cameramen record the event.
Recording describes the process through which dry tobacco leaf is converted in finished product as cigarette. Buildings and traffic in a Southern American city. Sign on the entrance of a bank reads 'Planters Bank & Trust Co.'. People at counters in bank. Tobacco farm and tobacco plants. Warehouses containing dry tobacco leafs. Tobacco leafs transferred to steam chambers for processing. Man at steam chamber controls. Women separate leafs and leaves put into baskets. Leaves pass on air pressure pipelines. Leaves are further processed by women before transferred into factory. Tobacco leaves are put into machine where stems are cut off. Tobacco leaves then put into machine for blending. Technicians and workers at machines. Equipment in a factory. Slicing of tobacco bales done by putting it into a machine with rotary blades. Shows man at machine. Fluffy masses of blended tobacco goes to cigarette making machine through conveyor belts. Cigarette produced in factory. Women near machines make cigarettes. Finished cigarettes at packaging machines. Men pack cigarette packets into cartons.
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