The Republican National Convention, meeting in the Chicago Stadium, Chicago, Illinois, renominates President Herbert Hoover and Vice President Charles Curtis as their standard bearers in the next election. Flag-waving delegates celebrate. Hoover prepares to address the convention. Posters of President Hoover and Vice President Curtis are displayed prominently by the speaker's podium.
View of crowd of 200,000 supporters during Franklin Roosevelt’s presidential campaign in Newark, New Jersey, during the Great Depression. Crowds clapping as former New York Governor, Al Smith, endorses Franklin Roosevelt. “The best way to bring back prosperity, the election of Roosevelt, Garner and the entire Democratic ticket!” Smith concludes his endorsement to the roaring cheer of the crowd.
Train carrying New York Governor and Presidential candidate Franklin Roosevelt (FDR). Boston citizens gather to see Franklin Roosevelt. Sign saying “Our Next President Franklin Roosevelt”. Supporters wave American flags during Franklin Roosevelt’s speech onstage. New York citizens wait in line to vote outside polling station. Former New York Governor, Al Smith, and his wife, Catherine Ann Dunn, walk together to their polling station. Al Smith is seen wearing his famous “brown derby”. View of Franklin Roosevelt waiting for election returns. Crowd in Times Square waiting for election updates. Police patrols the crowd. People cheer all over New York City when Franklin Roosevelt wins the election. Franklin Roosevelt smiles. Franklin Roosevelt swims in pool to relax after election victory.
Waterfront near facilities of Norfolk boat builder, John H. Curtis, who perpetrated a hoax during the search for Charles Lindbergh's kidnapped son. (Curtis falsely claimed he was contacted by kidnappers who held the child on a yacht.) A wooden motor cabin boat is seen docked. The camera pans along the river past boats and a Security Storage building in the background. it focuses on the Curtis building and boatyard. A sign identifies it as "J.H. Curtis Boat & Engine Corp."
'Pattern for the Nation' depicts mental disability in children. Paul W. Morenzi, President of Travelers Broadcasting Service Corporation speaks about television documentary programs concerning mental disability and describes the progress being made in the State of Connecticut.. Mentally disabled persons are shown performing in an orchestra. Various mentally disabled people and children celebrate. A mentally disabled boy. Mentally disabled children in a classroom. A woman discusses the challenges of having a mentally disabled child. President Kennedy is heard speaking about the problem of mental disabilities. Connecticut's Deputy Health Commissioner, Bert Schmikel, who is in charge of the State's program speaks. A nurse with a toddler. A training institute for teaching mentally disabled children.
Volunteers provide education to the mentally disabled children in Connecticut, United States. A map hung on a wall. Narrator mentions that in 1959 the Connecticut Legislature created the "State Office of Mental Retardation." Mr. Bert Schmikel, Head of that office, points at the map and expresses his views about education for the mentally disabled children. Several children around a table. A woman helps them. A child tries to wear shoes. Another child wears a cap. A man helps as some mentally disabled children get off a car. A bespectacled boy with the American Flag. A mentally disabled girl and an African American boy. Two ladders placed horizontally on a table. The ladders are placed side by side in such a way that the rungs of the two ladders do not correspond to each other. A girl walks by placing her feet between the rungs of the ladders. A woman teaches needlework to a boy. A disabled girl fiddles with the zip of the hood of a boy's coat. A man stands nearby.
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