Scenes from Pony-Penning Day on Chincoteague Island off the coast of Virginia in the United States. Horses swim across shallow waters. Horses in the street. Horses are auctioned to a large crowd. Men have difficulty in keeping the steeds orderly.
Huge crowd gathers as the funeral procession of Michael Vengalli passes through the streets. The five year old boy was killed by gangsters in the Coll-Schultz gang war (of the mafia or mob) when gangsters in a car from the Coll gang fired on the Schultz gang on E. 107th St in Manhattan, but missed them and hit baby Vengalli and 4 other children. The bereaved family seen weeping. People look from the windows of their homes as the cortege passes.
Several boats in water. Charles Lindbergh and his wife in the cockpit of the plane. The plane takes off.
Urbain Ledoux known as 'Mr. Zero' offers a growler of beer for three cents (though it is not real beer, as the narrator indicates, because it is during prohibition in the United States). Crowd stands in lines to drink non-alcoholic beer. Several people drink beer and play cards. Bartender in action. A man chugs a full glass of beer.
Former President Coolidge, Vice-President Charles Curtis, Gerard Swope, John J. Raskob and other dignitaries attend the funeral rites of the financier and statesman, U.S. Senator Dwight Morrow, in a small Presbyterian Church. Crowd stands and watches as the cortege passes.
Tie in the football match between Bulldog and Army teams at the Yale Bowl. Stecker makes a pass and Army scores the first point. Later Bud Parker plows the entire West point squad for touch-down in the second longest run ever made in the Bowl. Both teams score six points each. Huge crowd cheers the players.
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