Shows California coastline at Monterey Bay. View of Pacific Ocean waves hitting the cliffs and rocks on the coast of California.
A view of sand dunes and arid landscape of Death Valley California. The car leaves the area and a range of hills is seen in California. The photographer Edward Weston sets the view camera in a suitable position on a tripod stand. He uses a photoelectric cell to check the intensity of light. The shutter of the lens is removed. A woman student accompanying the photographer uses a focusing cloth over her head. A bunkhouse seen in a valley.
A power plant at Boulder Dam and pictorial depictions of water supplies from Parker Dam and Imperial Dam serving California. The two wings of Boulder Dam power plant, one along each side of the Black Canyon wall. The power plant with different units for generating power. The machinery inside the plant. The major transmission lines that carry power to Los Angeles California metropolitan areas. Two men in the plant near transmission lines. A map depicts the path of power transmission lines. The power plant with turbines. The transmission lines along a desert. A path in the desert. A map depiction of water supply from Parker Dam to the city of Los Angeles. A map depiction of water supply to the Imperial Valley from Imperial Dam. The whole of the Boulder Dam (later Hoover Dam) in view with water gushing through the gates.
U.S. Army Air Corps 1st Provisional Wing at an annual training exercise at Rockwell field in California, United States. U.S. Army Air Corps P-12Bs of the 1st Pursuit Group and 95th Pursuit Squadron parked at Rockwell field in San Diego, California. LB-6s of the 2nd and 7th Bombardment Group parked on the field. A-3s of the 3rd Attack group lined up on field. A sign on a building in the background reads ' 3rd attack' Aircraft taxi as they prepare to take off. Commanders of the various groups Major Hugh J. Kenrr, Major Davenport, Major Carl Spaatz, Major Ralph Royce stand together.
U.S. Army Air Corps 1st Provisional Wing at an annual training in California, United States. Pursuit planes in flight during the annual training as they make passes at U.S. Army Air Corps A-3s, P-12Bs and B-2s in flight at Mather field in California. Aircraft in a mass aerial maneuver. Aircraft in flight over a building with a sign on it that reads ' Visiting and staff planes' Aircraft in flight as pursuit planes make passes at the attack planes. Attack aircraft change their course while in flight.
Film begins showing steel framework for a new war plant under construction during World War 2. Next, workers are seen painting aircraft parts at the Vultee aircraft plant in Downey California. A crane at the plant moves an aircraft tail section to mate with the forward fuselage of an airplane. Cranes move wing segments through the plant. Workers, including a woman, lower a radial engine into place at the front of a BT-13 Valiant training airplane. A line of such aircraft is seen behind the one the camera is focused on. Scene shifts to the Lockheed aircraft plant in Burbank, California, where bodies of Lockheed Model 14 Super Electra passenger planes are seen covering the factory floor. A glimpse of Lockheed B-24 Liberator bombers in an assembly line next to men working engines of a partially assembled Electra 14 aircraft. Lockheed P-38 lightning fighter planes being assembled at another part of the plant. A P-38 taxis past a line of parked Lockheed Hudson light bombers and takes off on a test flight. View from below of gleaming aluminum P-38 climbing out. Aerial view from above of P-38 flying over land near some mountains.
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