The Presidential yacht Potomac underway docked and then underway in Miami, Florida, United States. President Franklin D Roosevelt along with Harold LeClair Ickes, Secretary of interior, James Roosevelt, Hopkins and others on board the yacht named "Potomac". President Roosevelt talks to them as he relaxes. A large number of people gathered at the dock to welcome the president. An official building with the American flag in the foreground.
Presidential yacht Potomac pulls near the dock in Miami, Florida. President Franklin D Roosevelt and others on board the yacht. He disembarks from Potomac as photographers take photographs of him.
Photographers take pictures of Presidential yacht of Roosevelt as it pulls up at the dock in Miami, Florida. A barrage balloon flies overhead. Sailors aboard the yacht, a flag hoisted at the dock. President Franklin D Roosevelt and others on board the yacht.
U.S. Coast Guard sailors lined up to board a railroad train in United States, bound for a flood ravaged area. Boats loaded on flat railroad cars and the train moves away to flooded area providing relief to the victims. A large stadium seen in the background. Supply boxes piled up, men load boxes of relief supplies onto a U.S. Coast Guard airplane. Aircraft takes off to provide supplies to flood victims.
Cars move on a flooded street in Zanesville, Ohio. Trees, houses, shops and various other buildings submerged in water of the Muskingum River following heavy flooding of Ohio River and other nearby rivers in February 1937. An overturned truck in water. Water flows at a great speed under a bridge.
Opening scenes are in Marietta, Ohio: Houses submerged in water, people along a railroad track. Men carry a boat, people in boats taken to safer place from the flooded city of Marietta, Ohio. People board a railroad train as they flee from the flooded city. Stretchers carrying injured victims are loaded into train. Scene changes to Cincinnati Ohio, with many parts of the city submerged under flood water. Water flows under the Cincinnati-Covington Bridge, also called the Ohio River Bridge (and later the Roebling Suspension Bridge) at very high level. Houses submerged in water. Aerial view of the city with water all around. Men load their belongings onto a truck. People rescued and carried away in boats to safer places. Police help rescue a woman and a baby. 750,000 people rendered homeless. Houses and industrial buildings submerged in water up to roof lines. Men in boats move through city streets. A boat passes by a stop light at same level due to extreme high flood waters. View of the submerged doorway of the Queen City Hospital in Cincinnati. Vehicles are used to pull cars and trucks out of flood waters.
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