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.
United States Coast Guards with sentry dogs in the United States. The coast guards in white uniforms as they march with the sentry dogs. They march on the Atlantic coast. Coast guard horsemen patrol the coast.
Tanks and ships being manufactured in the United States during World War 2. U.S. Army tanks loaded on flat rail road cars as they leave factory for the war front during World War II. Workers at a plant as they work on the tanks. Women workers at manufacturing plant. Women workers test drive the tanks. The tanks loaded onto flat rail road cars for transportation to the war front. Ships being manufactured at a shipyard in the United States. War material (materiel) manufacturing process goes on round the clock. A smoke stack at the ship yard.
United States soldiers practice the invasion of Europe during World War II. United States troops loaded in invasion barges practice a landing assault in the United States. Invasion barges being towed by barrage balloons as they arrive at a beach. The troops land at the beach as live ammunition is being fired. The soldiers land and cross over barbed wire fences at the beach. Motorized equipment being carried inland from the beach. The soldiers being trained in street to street fighting at an amphibious training center. They fire rifles.
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