A documentary titled 'Sports' in Detroit in the United States. Spectators seated on stands around the swimming pool at the National Outdoor AAU Diving Championship in Detroit. View of the spectators seated in rows. Gaby Tobian, the defending champion, dives from the platform int the pool. Five other contestants dive into the pool from the platform. Gaby Tobian takes another dive, winning the championship. Gaby Tobian smiling.
Industrial jobs coming available in various parts of the United States during the Great Depression. Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania: Workers at the Sun Oil Company. Long line of men showing up for work. Men hand-digging trenches for oil and gas pipelines, giving work to hundreds of men, instead of to twelve men with machines. Detroit, Michigan: Workers called back to work at the United States Rubber Company (later Uniroyal). Cue of workers passing through the entrance door with sign overhead "Let's Get it done! It can be done!" and then punching time cards as hey head back to work. Scenes of manufacturing and assembly work by women workers and male workers inside the rubber company, and a rubber tire being made in the factory. Joliet, Illinois: Lines of workers entering the Mayflower Wallpaper Mill. Men rolling large rolls of the paper through the mill. Views of wallpaper manufacturing. Dayton, Ohio: Views of workers entering the National Cash Register Company factory. Workers assembling and testing cash registers before they are placed on conveyor belts.
Mexican painter Diego Rivera sketches and paints the Detroit Industry Mural at Detroit Institute of Arts in United Sates. He stands on a scaffold and paints the mural. Partially completed sections of murals are seen.
Manufacturing of aircraft in United States World War I. Aircraft factories at Buffalo, New Jersey, New York, Detroit, Dayton, Michigan and Elizabeth. Aerial views of aircraft factory, railway siding, warehouses and lumber yard. War production factory workers go to work at one of the plants and workers at work. Men sit around small round tables as they eat in a plant cafeteria.
Business developments in various parts of United States. The rate of employment increases as developments occur. Increasing number of workers with jobs shown working during the Great Depression. Connersville, Indiana: Men working in an automobile industry. Workers with heavy machines work on various parts of automobile. Men loading lumber planks onto belts for processing through saws that cut wooden parts for use in automobiles. Cincinnati, Ohio: Men and women working in an Ivory Soap manufacturing company. Workers pack Ivor Soap bars in boxes. Worcester, Massachusetts: Women workers busy stitching corsets in a leading corset manufacturing company. Detroit, Michigan: Men work in Burroughs typewriter manufacturing company. Men check typewriters.
The film 'Devil Boats' shows the construction of Patrol Torpedo Boats in the United States. A young woman stands on a small bridge. A Patrol Torpedo Boat in the background. Two patrol boats underway at sea. Naval officers stand in a line. Workers enter the ELCO Marine Division plant. Assembly of PT boat hull and wiring. A woman worker examines wiring. One of the oldest workers, Frederick Buckley, supervises. Scenes from the Packard factory in Detroit Michigan, where the engines for the PT Boats are made. Engineers and technicians work on building a boat. Ingots thrust into ladels and poured into iron cauldrons. Drop hammer at work on hot pieces. Aluminum crank case moving on assembly line and then anodized by dipping in anodizing solution. Welders weld jackets to cylinder heads on the engine. Engine block lowered into position and joined to completed crank case. Final assembly of engine for PT boat. A woman paints yellow color on a part of the boat. After completion the Patrol Torpedo Boat is lifted by a crane. Shows Bob Palmer who used to be a factory worker and is now in the Navy in the PT service. Naval officer shakes hands with Palmer who had been painting his ID on the engine block.
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