Film describes American society in the 1930s and 40s, including World War 2. CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations) President John L Lewis and Father Coughlin speaking. Harlem street scene. Crowd entering a subway station in New York City. Newspaper headlines posted in China Town New York. Storefronts of Greek and Italian merchants in downtown New York City. Signs seen include 'Grande Deposito Dolio Doliva,' and 'Anthony Coulapides, manufacturer of high grade cigarettes.' Hebrew writing and star of David seen on side of building. Buildings with Spanish language signs in New York. A parade float with Virgin Mary depiction. Wide shot of a vineyard. View of a water wheel turning at a mill. Boys skinny dipping. 1930's and 1940's era cars on deep snow covered roads of an American town. Homes in deep snow. People recline on a beach in Florida in winter while on the same day in New Hampshire people ski, some pulled by horses. Skiers on slopes. People slip while walking across a street during a blizzard. A boy takes removes an apple from an icebox (early refrigerator). Dust storms in farm country of the rural Midwest during the dust bowl. Man races across a field toward a barn as a dust storm bears down on it. A farmer leads his horses out of a corral. A farm is destroyed by dust storms during the dust bowl. A family piles their remaining things on a farm truck and abandons their farm destroyed by the dust bowl. A poor family in a shack in the River Mississippi Valley area.
The New York world's fair of 1939-1940. View of Manhattan, George Washington bridge. Aerial views of buildings and other skyscrapers of New York City. People gather on the fairgrounds. People outside various buildings. Exhibitions, bands, dances, statues and flags at the fair grounds. Statue of George Washington. The United States Government building and different state buildings in view. Woman and two girls seated on a bench as they eat ice-cream cones.
United States Fire fighters host Junior firemen in an outing at the amusement park area of Harry Altman's Glen Park Casino and Amusement Park, in Williamsville, New York, 12 miles Northeast of Buffalo, New York. Men, women and children walking in Glen Park. A man climbs a ladder and performs an acrobatic stunts where he leaps from a great height onto a trampoline catch below. People gathered to watch the stunt. A boy waves from behind the wheel of a miniature car ride. Children eat cotton candy (or candy floss) and young children ride on a merry go round-like car carousel, among various attractions of the park.
A parade in Buffalo, New York. A large crowd of junior birdmen salute United States Army Air Corps pilot Jimmy Doolittle. Jimmy Doolittle on a dais with dignitaries.
View of railroad workmen working on track for the Lehigh Valley Railroad. The new Black Diamond Express railroad train from New York City, through Pennsylvanis, to Buffalo, New York. Locomotive seen emitting smoke and rounding a curve at a distance. Workers move off the track as train comes. Work crew supervisor waves two large white kerchiefs as the train approaches and passes. Trainman on board waves back with a kerchief.
Views of the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, June, 1940. The hall is filled with delegates holding signs and placards, many for Senator Robert Taft. Several denounce the New Deal. The Republican presidential nominee, Wendell Wilkie, is seen. (The narrator mentions his untimely death in 1944, at age 52.) Scene shifts to cheering crowds in Times Square, New York and to Hyde Park, New York, where the Roosevelt family and associates stand as well-wishers cheer FDR's unprecedented election to a third term as President of the United States. Seen are Colonel House; President Franklin D. Roosevelt; son, John Roosevelt and his wife, Anne Clark Roosevelt; Ethel Du Pont Roosevelt and her husband, Franklin Roosevelt, Jr.; Sara Roosevelt, the President's mother; and his wife, Eleanor Roosevelt.
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