Traffic on road and White House in the background. Crowd gathered at White House waiting to proceed. People enter the door. Lined up people move ahead slowly. South facade of the White House. President Herbert Hoover and wife Lou Henry Hover walk out of the door. President, wife and other officials pose.
Crowd lined up to watch the Rose Tournament parade in Pasadena. Various floats parade on street. Floral arrangement floats parade on streets and crowd watch.
Overflowing Tallahatchie River floods the streets of Glendora, Mississippi. Submerged farms are deserted and prisoners are brought to the stricken region to stem the tide of the rising river. African American prisoners in striped prison uniforms shovel earth while a white guard watches the prisoner work gang. Sand sacks are used as barriers. Prisoners wade through water carrying sand bags to block rising water. Sack stacks to block the water from entering streets. Houses half merged in water. Man rows boat.
Rose Bowl college football game between Tulane (Green Wave) and the University of Southern California (USC) Trojans. Game in progress. Crowd watches. Trojans over Tulane in a 21-12 defeat. In the final quarter Don Zimmerman drops a pass into Jerry Dalrymple's hands for a score and follows it closely with another touchdown over a similar route.
Attorney General Alexander Mitchell Palmer inside his residence in Washington, DC. He poses for the camera, sitting in a chair with his 9-year old daughter, Mary Dixon Palmer, sitting in his lap. They have a book opened that Palmer reads aloud. Next, scene shows his wife, Mrs. Roberta Bartlett Dixon Palmer, standing outside their home. Camera pans to include, daughter Mary, and Attorney General Palmer. The three smile for the camera.
Some restrospective scenes with William Jennings Bryan, assembled after his sudden death in Dayton, Ohio, shortly after the celebtrated "Scopes" trial in 1925. Bryan speaking in front of a residence. (Slate notes he ran for Presidency three times, and was Secretary of State in cabinet of President Woodrow Wilson.) Bryan wearing a cloak and hat, walking on a rainy day, in a city. Automobiles parked at the curb in the background. He smiles, stops and removes his hat to pose for the camera. Next, a closeup of Bryan, bareheaded. Scene shifts to New York City, in 1924, where Bryan stands with his brother, Charles W. Bryan, former Governor of Nebraska, who was nominated as Vice-Presidential candidate during the Democratic Party Convention. William Jennings Bryan conducting one of his weekly Bible classes and Sunday Sermon, to a large outdoor audience, from a stage, in Royal Palm Park, Miami, Florida. Closeup of him gesticulating as he speaks. Bryan and members of his family standing on the bayfront balcony of his residence,“Villa Serena," on the occasion of a visit by former U.S. President Warren G. Harding, who stands behind several Bryan grandchildren
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