USS Wyoming on her last cruise, in waters of the City of New York. The battleship moves in the East River accompanied by tugboats. The crew of the battleship is on deck. The ship passes under the Brooklyn bridge. Crowd gathered on the bridge. Bi-wing scout planes on the battleship deck.
Coast Guardsmen wearing white uniforms perform drill maneuvers with their rifles along the Cape Fear Riverfront in Wilmington, North Carolina. They stand in place and move their rifles synchronously during the drill. A single Coast Guardsman performs drill maneuvers on the deck of a ship. Coast Guardsmen supervise and guard the site of a large liquor bust during Prohibition. The bust is at the corner of North Water Street and Market Street in Wilmington North Carolina, on the bank of the Cape Fear River. A Coast Guard ship moored at pier along Water Street. Hundreds of wooden boxes heaped along Water Street in front of what is today the Alton Lennon Federal Building and Courthouse, between Market and Princess streets. Workers destroy the boxes with axes and sledge hammers while Coast Guard look on. Illegal liquor flowing in the street. Men continue to remove more boxes from the building at the corner of Water and Market. Road is filled with smashed boxes. Crowd watches the activities from the end of Market Street. A truck arrives to pick up the smashed boxes. Boats and ships at the port by the street are shown. Smashed boxes are loaded on the truck. One nearby building is named the "Union Cafe". A book shop is in the same building. (Today, that building at 14 South Water Street is site of the Riverboat Landing Restaurant). The JW Brooks Wholesale Grocer building is also seen in the footage, with its sign painted on the Market Street side of its brick face.
Bingham canyon mine in Utah. A worker drills with a piston air drill. A crane moves drilled ore to a railroad car of 80 ton capacity. The rail cars are driven by oil-electric locomotive. The rail car moves in the mine. Blasting in mine results in smoke and dust. A train carries 45 rail cars to a 20 mile distant factory
Men move on a road near a copper mine community. For recreation, people in the town with men employed at the Copper Mine enjoy leisure activities provided by the mine company. People read at a table in a club. A woman sits at piano while others sit on sofa near her in a club. Men play billiards, ten pin bowling, basketball, football and children enjoy diving and swimming in an indoor swimming pool along with women and some men. In company bakery, a worker keeps a tray in oven. Another worker takes out a tray from the oven. Workers are engaged in baking work in kitchen. A jeep comes out of the company hospital. Doctors carry out a medical surgery operation in an operating theater. Nurses and doctors take care of patients in the hospital.
Buildings of Tuskegee Institution. Exterior views of many buildings of the Tuskegee Institute. Picture of Booker T Washington. Instructors train students in carpentry, farming and dairy farm. A Jessup wagon, used to transport trained extension agents for teaching farming skills to African American farmers in Alabama, is inspected.
Representative from United States Department of Agriculture meet Thomas Monroe Campbell, a Tuskegee Agricultural graduate working in a field. They talk. A Supervisor and the States Extension Director discuss appointment of Thomas Campbell as an Extension Agent. Next scenes show Mr. Campbell in his role as an extension agent, using skills learned from the Tuskegee Institute to instruct rural African American farmers to inoculate hogs against cholera. He also demonstrates pruning of trees. Farmers in a corn field use hoe.
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