Scenes from Inland Steel Company plant in East Chicago, Indiana. Men work in a plant. Raw materials for steel production. Coal and limestone transported. Trucks transport raw materials. Iron ore blasted, crushed and ground with water. Magnetic drums rotate in slurry. 60 percent iron ore is rolled into pellets. Men at controls. Raw materials coal, limestone and iron ore are unloaded. Coal sent in cooking oven. Pig iron produced. Molted iron sample is taken.
East-West finals of Golden Gloves show boxers in ring. Boxing match in progress. Crowd cheers. Eastern boxers wins. Scenes include boxers Tommy Reynolds defeating Tommy Smith. Closeups of different men in the audience with different expressions as they watch the boxing bouts. Close-up of a man studying the boxing match as he smokes a cigarette. In second bout in the 147 pound weight class, boxers Joe Shaw of Chicago against Jimmy Chavis of New York. Chavis goes down to his knees. Shaw defeats Chavis.
Activities of U.S. police and soldiers during Detroit riots, 1967 in Michigan, United States. Jeeps loaded with soldiers and police being driven away. A soldier enter the building. South Eastern High School entrance. Jeeps parked outside the building.
People walking wearing winter clothes in streets of Chicago, Illinois. Views of the frozen shore areas and ice on Lake Michigan in city of Chicago. Chicago River is jammed by ice. View of railway tracks covered with snow in Europe. Dripping ice on statues. People wearing gloves. Narrator describes snow events in Italy including Florence, Italy. Youth run and slide on ice on frozen river in Italy. Car passing on snowfield. Houses covered with snow and collapsed due to snowfall in Japan. Japanese men and women removing snow using spades and snow shovels. Japanese people shovel snow near homes. Men removing snow from around snowbound railroad trains where passengers had been trapped.
Sign board reads 'University of Chicago'. View of Ida Noyes Hall (Ida Noyes Hall - 1212 E. 59th Reynolds Club - 5706 S. University Chicago, IL 60637). Vehicles drive in front of University of Chicago. Harper Memorial Library in University of Chicago campus grounds. Board reads 'William Rainey Harper Memorial Library 1116 East 59th Street'". View of Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House (5757 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637, United States). Adlai Stevenson Institute. Three men walk out of a building.
Film opens with hazy aerial views of Chicago Illinois. Scene shifts to views from vehicle driving on Chicago highway. A road sign reads "Des Plaines River Rd exits 1/2 mile ahead." A Boeing 727 commercial airliner is seen overhead with wheels down as it descends to land. Some 1960s cars drive past. 1961 Ford C-Series truck driving. View back, of the airliner descending above the highway, and of truck and cars passing the camera vehicle. Overhead highway road sign reads "Chicago Downtown 15 Miles." View of the Chicago skyline of buildings on Lake Michigan waterfront. View from slow moving aircraft of the Wrigley Building; the Michigan Avenue Bridge across the Chicago River; and the Tribune Tower. Camera continues to pan to East and then at the Kemper Building with "United Insurance" written near its top. Camera then swirls downward to river and bridges directly below and then back up from street and down again, ending on avenue near building displaying two American flags.
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