Shows the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., as Franklin D. Roosevelt's voice is heard in the background. American flag flying at half mast. American flags on other buildings. Women on wheelchairs outside building. People line rail road tracks as the funeral train leaves. British and Soviet flags at half mast.
United States Post office employees sort mail sacks filled with letters. A locomotive train approaching camera position and passing by at high speed. Map of United States connecting destinations and a flying plane. A man examining models of various airplanes used for air mail service. Shows postmaster General James A. Farley emerging from a plane with other men to examine the latest technology and advances in airplanes for airmail service. View of exterior of Newark Air Mail Post Office building. Men emerging from plane. A plane takes off. Men load postal mail sacks on plane. View of a pilot reenacting the look of one of the original night mail pilots.
A woman fixes a potato in a machine to peel off its skin. She moves the handle clockwise which shows potato skin peeling off from potato.
Cats look out of a box. A young girl plays with a cat. Two white cats close to each other. Eyes of cat. Girl wears live cat around her neck as a fur piece.
Albert Einstein removes his hat as he walks up to board the ocean liner followed by his wife Elsa Einstein. Crowd with banners at docks to bid farewell as they board the ship. Crowd carries anti-war and pacifist banners. One banner says "Farewell Einstein, militant pacifist. Youth Peace Committee".
A staged news film showing Prohibitionist William E. Johnson (aka "pussyfoot") accompanied by uniformed police officers raiding a rum liquor still, in Soux City Iowa. The officers kick open the doors of the distillery, and pull a man out. Then, from inside, two law enforcement men carry out a simple piece of distillation apparatus. Johnson sheds his coat jacket and proceeds to destroy the still equipment with a sledge hammer, bashing holes in the container and breaking pipe and distillation coils from the device. (Note: a slate alludes to Johnson losing an eye while crusading in London. That occurred on November 13,1919, when he was publicly "teased" by medical students who carried him on a stretcher through the streets. Johnson lost sight in one eye, after being struck with an object thrown by a spectator.)
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