Wendell Wilkie arrives at Nashville, Tennessee. He disembarks from an aircraft. People wave to him. Aerial view of the land and crowd. An aircraft stands between the crowds. Wendell Wilkie dedicates the new Vultee aircraft plant during World War 2. A huge crowd seated as Wendell Wilkie speaks. Two girls with flowers. A plane taxis. The aircraft takes off.
New Zealand Minister Walter Nash disembarks from an aircraft. He is greeted by the United States officials and other British envoys at the airport in Washington DC. The officials shake hands.
Greenbelt Community Center Buildings in Greenbelt Maryland, a planned suburban community of the United States during the New Deal era of the Great Depression. A boy sketches country landscape. Sketch of a city slum. View of modern communities of Greenbelt constrasted with slum areas in industrial areas elsewhere in America. Children run in a community building. A child plays as his mother sits on the lawn. Residential houses in modern planned cooperative community. Children at playgrounds in modern community buildings. Contrasting view of children playing at alleys in slum and tenement area near factory mills. Men and women walk in slum area. Clothes hung on lines. Back in Greenbelt, children bicycle on paths in community. Aerial view of planned Greenbelt community.
Title slate reads,"the First Metallurgical Plant in Soviet Central Asia." Narrator says construction started 4-years ago during the Battle of Stalingrad in World War 2 (1942-43). Interior of the plant is shown from a vantage point high above the factory floor. Strips of hot steel are seen being extruded from a rolling mill. Closeup of the rolling mill in action and workers standing beside it. Closeup of the mill's rollers and hot steel blank passing through them. Workers handle the hot steel with long tools, as they move it back and forth to different sets of rollers. Narrator says the rolling mill has a capacity of 50 thousand tons per year. Closeup of two steel workers. Change of scene with view from above and then from below, as a furnace is tapped and molten steel flows into a crucible, emiting smoke and flames. Closeup of Uzbek steel workers employed at the steel plant. Next, workers are gathered in a ceremony marking the opening of the new rolling mill. A plant supervisor speaks before the gathering. A huge picture of Joseph stalin forms a backdrop. (Note: This is the The Uzbek Metallurgical Plant, aka V. I. Lenin Uzbek Metallurgical Plant, located in Bekabad, Tashkent Oblast,Uzbekistan. The 300-millimeter light rolling mill, seen here, began operating in October, 1946.)
Walt Disney New Studio in Hollywood, California. Buildings under construction. Signs on the gates read 'Walt Disney Production' and 'Stop'. Brown Derby Restaurant in view. Sign on the restaurant building reads 'Canadian Club' and 'The Brown Derby'.
A race course at new Hialeah Park in Miami, Florida. A huge crowd of 15,000 people gather. People walk in corridors and walk on stairs. A man operates the controls of machines. Jockey Al Snider rides 'Flying Heels' and wins in Inaugural Handicap. A huge crowd seated in the spectator area. Legalized betting by Pari-Mutuel machines. The crowd cheers during the horse racing.
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