A film depicts an impressionistic study of Washington DC on a typical Great Depression day. Clark Mills's Lieutenant General George Washginton equestrian statue at Washington Circle. A cemetery and men work at the cemetery. They use a machine to help lift old grave markers up out of the ground. The grave markers appear to be circa civil war era. A marker with number 7566 on top is lifted out of the cemetery grounds. Elevated view of Pennsylvania Avenue, Old Post Office Building seen on right, and traffic on the street. Close up elevated view of 1930's automobiles stopped a stop light. Several views of 1935 year license plates or number plates of cars from various states including California, Georgia, New York, Wisconsin, and Ohio . A horse eats food from a bucket. A woman seated on a footpath drinks and enjoys lunch. A family seated around a table during a lunch break. People at the National Zoo. They look at animals and stand behind a cage. A young girl plays with leopard cubs. Picnickers seated in a garden, with cars on roadway behind, possibly Rock Creek Park area. A close up of a young girl eating. Children swinging on a swing set.
A film titled 'Social Security for nation' about aims of the Social Security Act of 1935 in the United States. Exteriors of the U.S. Supreme Court Building in Washington DC. A picture of Supreme Court Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo. Exterior view of Empire State Building in New York City, panning upward. A passenger train and locomotive underway at high speed toward camera position. Cars and buses on a busy city street. Women at work as telephone switchboard operators, with a woman supervisor pacing behind them. Elevated view of pedestrians in busy city street intersection, crossing a street. Children on a playground swing set in a park. A copy of the Social Security Plan. A chart depicts how the social security administration works. A sign reads 'Social Security Board'. Members of the board at a desk including Chairman Arthur J. Altmeyer, Allan S. Woodward and George G. Biggy.
A simplified "goal post" version of Dr. Lytle Schuyler Adams' Aerial pickup system is set up for testing at the property of Richard Archibold in Thomasville Georgia. (Archibold, of the New York Museum of Science, had prevailed upon Dr. Adams to simplify his aerial pickup system to facilitate its use in remote areas such as jungles. This "goal post" version being tested, was the result.) Two tall bamboo poles are seen planted in the ground at the edge of a road. A line is looped between the poles. The camera, recording in slow motion, captures the lower part of an airplane, trailing a long cable with a hook that extends down and passes between the bamboo poles, snagging the line between them. The cable and line grow taut and a large package is seen being dragged between the poles and upward behing the towing airplane. The bamboo poles appear bent away from the direction of flight, as they are captured snapping backwards in slow motion. (Judging by its landing gear, the aircraft being used appears to be a Travel Air monoplane.)
Two new immigrant man are seen on bunks in a tenement in New York City, where the narrator says nine out of ten immigrants arrived in the period from 1880 to 1914. Two women pose, sitting beside a sleeping child in a tenement. An immigrant speaks about the hardship of arriving in a strange land where he did not speak the language and felt "lost." He says he gradually overcame that by going to night school to learn a little English and to read and write. He says he made a nice living as a peddler, and expressed appreciation for the opportunities America gave to immigrants. In the next scene, children enjoy rides on a traveling merry-go-round visiting their neighborhood. The operator runs it manually, by turning a wheel. View of children riding and others watching on the street. Streams of pedestrians crossing a bridge across a busy city street. Pedestrians on sidewalks and horse-drawn wagons and electrified street cars moving on the street in the commercial center of a city. Workers heading home after their shift in a factory. View of workers producing products in a factory. A line of women punching a time clock at their place of work. Women working in a clothing factory. Men standing atop a shipment of steel rails for the building of a railroad. Views of rails being moved into position for a new segment of the railroad. Glimpse of a steam shovel scooping a bucket full of raw material. Black smoke rising from funnel on a steam locomotive, and also from nearby steam shovel. Iron workers on a the wide open upper floors of the 60-story skyscraper Woolworth Building under construction in Lower Manhattan, New York City, in 1911. Pilings being put in place for a new building. Riveters guiding a section of steel column into place for a new building . Views inside a heavy manufacturing plant of the W. E. & M. company in New York City. Their products appear to be large dynamos and motors. View of the Statue of Liberty on Bedloe's Island in New York harbor, with its arm appearing to hold up a full moon.
German Zeppelin Hindenburg (LZ-129) in flight over New York. Manhattan Island and New York City skyline seen below. Skyscrapers like Empire State Building visible. Hindenburg airship flies over New Jersey. Identification "D-LZ129" painted on its side. Swastika on tail of airship. Zeppelin arrives at U.S. Naval Air Station, Lakehurst ,New Jersey. Zepelin discharges liquid ballast. Docking crew (primarily U.S. sailors) awaits on the ground. Landing lines are dropped. Large number of ground crew grab the lines. Hindenburg crashes engulfed in flames. Crew members rush to the burning zeppelin and help survivors emerging from the airship cabin. Smoke rises due to fire. Burning skeleton of zeppelin is seen.
African American children at a camp in Harlem, New York, United States. Children's Aid Society of the city of New York and Boys Club conduct a day camp in Harlem, New York. Children seated on a ground. Counselors give milk and sandwiches to the children. The children have their food. seated on the ground. The children enter a building. Buildings along the sides of a street. Other children on scooters, playing on the street. A sign on a building reads: 'Children's Aid Society of the city of New York' and 'Harlem Boys'.
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