Opening newsreel slate reads: "Roosevelt inspects GA. Farm Colony." President Franklin D. Roosevelt is seen driving his 1931 Plymouth Phaeton car with hand controls, along a rural road on the way to visit the Pine Valley Farm Colony established by the Works Projects Administration of Georgia. In change of scene, camera shows a poultry farm with the farmer walking through broadcasting grain to feed the chickens. Another scene shows three farmers walking through and examining their crop of cabbages. Next, cattle are seen in a field. Scene changes again to focus on the President's car driving onto the the Pine Valley farms. A large number of the community are crowded around to greet him. Closeups of serious-looking school children watching the President. Closeups of unsmiling men in the group. Closeup of President Roosevelt at the controls of the car, with his personal secretary, Marguerite Alice "Missy" LeHand sharing the front seat. Two unidentified men occupy the rear seat. View of large number of somber community resident spectators, packed together near trees with whitewash partway up their trunks. Roosevelt maneuvers his car to the right, where spectators stand behind a rope line.
The Sunset Limited passenger train enroute from New Orleans to San Francisco, in 1915. The railroad train running on the tracks.
A Detroit,Toledo,and Ironton railroad train arrives and interchanges with the Chesapeake and Ohio at Greggs. The steam locomotive is pulling a passenger train. It continues northbound,crossing the Scioto River (out of its banks) and the film ends just before crossing the N&W at Glen Jean.
A steam locomotive, pulling a passenger train of the Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad arrives at a railway station in Michigan. Passengers get off the train. Curved railroad tracks in the foreground. Parked cars. A train pulls out of the railway station. People on a railway platform. Buildings and a water storage tank near the railway station.
Various views of farmers at work in America during World War 2. A worker gathering cotton in a field. A woman, man, and child in a field.The woman loads newly picked cotton into the back of a truck, as the man tallies it. Scene shifts to a yard filled with bales of cotton in Texas and then to numerous sheep in a large enclosure. They had been shorn recently.A worker holds a gate to control the exit of sheep from the pen. Next farmers are seen holding buckets of milk from which calves are feeding. Cattle moving along a trail. A farmer operates a a horse drawn dump rake to gather forage for animals. Beef cattle being herded by cowboys. Farmers harvesting and processing wheat in the field. A yard filled with pigs.
The Rose Bowl game at the Rose Bowl stadium in Pasadena, California. The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and the University of Southern California (USC) compete in the Rose Bowl Game. The USC team wins the game. Spectators cheer the players.
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