Katherine Stubergh running the O.H. Stubergh wax figure manufacturing plant in Los Angeles, California She makes wax figures. Women work in the wax mannequin plant, creating a mold using live blast technique (mold casting material being applied to live subject on table). Several wax figures in view. Female and male wax figures created by Katherine, including wax figure heads of Charles Lindbergh and Howard Hughes.
Washington State Reformatory in Monroe, Washington. Warden Joseph Peter administers the improved food service for the prisoners. Warden Joseph Peter writing down notes. 'Reformatory' written on the building. Jail employees prepare food. An employee places trays of baked goods in a cart. Jail employees cooking soup on the kitchen. The food is kept hot on steam tables. Prisoners are called out from their cells. 700 men walk in lines and get hot meals in the reformatory. Men eat food and sit on the benches
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.
Life of German field marshal and President Paul Von Hindenburg in Germany. Paul Von Hindenburg at the age of 85 years is seen giving a speech; reading a document
During Prohibition, police raid a garage at Halsted Street in Chicago, Illinois. The police raid the garage under the instruction of Deputy Prohibition Adminstrator A. E. Aman. They discover 537 barrels of banned beer. Officials destroy the barrels with mallets. Liquor flows from the barrels and into the streets.
Brand new automobiles are demolished in spectacular head-on collisions as part of the proving process of modern motor car manufacture. A motor car is rolled sideways down a 45 degree hill, righted and then driven off. A camera man records the stunt with a film camera. A motor car driven at high speed during the test. Tires are blown at 70 miles an hour. All kinds of skidding is indulged in from 30 miles an hour up. Two motor cars are driven at full speed, drivers jump out, resulting in a head on collision.
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