View of Paramount Pictures movie studio entrance. Hollywood film executives such as Paramount Picture’s Adolph Zukor in a meeting. View of Motion Picture Daily with news saying “Federal- NBC Units to Use Film Houses”. Two men buy theater tickets for a vaudeville show by the Federal Theater Project of the Great Depression organization called the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Works Progress Administration staff under the Federal Theater Project create props and stage design. A Works Progress Administration carpenter uses a Delta woodworking machinery. Works Progress Administration costume designer shows a design for a dress. Close up shot of Works Progress Administration costume designer. WPA technicians work on stage set design. A Works Progress Administration tailor measures a portly actor’s waistline. Seamstresses working in the costume department of the Federal Theater Project. Artist painting a background for a stage play. A seamstress adjusts a high slit dress of an actress. A milliner arranges a Fascinator, with tulle and pom-poms, on an actress’ head. Two actors and an actress practice a dance number together. Men and women dancers practice a dance. A pair of dancers perform a no-touch tango. Theater marquee saying, “Oh say can you sing WPA Music Comedy”. Newspaperman announcing show business news on newspaper. Orchestra plays inside a theater. Actors and actresses, in different period costumes, perform “Oh Say Can You Sing” as an ensemble after the curtains opened. View of faces of audience members as they clap and smile after watching the performance.
Soil erosion in the United States shows heavily eroded soil during the Dust Bowl era. Dusty field in the Great Plains region of the United States during the Great Depression. Close up of windmill spinning quickly. Dusty road and sign that reads “Dalhart city limit.” Wind blowing against a wire fence. Thick clouds forming as dust storm approaches. A man runs to his house just before dust storm hits. Dust storm enveloping field. Close up view of dust piling up on field. A woman picks her child up and runs into house as dust storm hits. A man runs as strong winds blow in the dust storm. Aftermath of a dust storm. Sand covers the whole farm in large drifts of dust. Car and wagon buried in sand. Barren farm land covered in dust during the Great Depression,
A man views a British Royal Air Force (RAF) recruitment poster. Poster reads “Join the R.A.F. and see the world”. British men marching through gate as they enter a military base as new recruits prior to World War 2. Several recruits trying on RAF coats in front of officers inside an office. Factory workers working on aircraft and mounting engine in a fighter plane, probably a Hawker Hurricane. Aerial view of an airfield with airplanes parked in formation.
Italian bi-winged aircraft parked in rows. Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini walking with officers as he inspects Italian airplanes. Three formations of Italian planes perform loops in sky before WWII.
Soviet Air Forces bi-winged aircraft flying in a star-shaped formation. Stalin talks with Russian pilots. “Russia is strong, he warns,” says the narrator. A group of Russian bombers in flight over the Red Square in Moscow. Soviet paratroopers jumping from Russian planes before WW2.
Japanese planes fly over a Japanese destroyer before WW2. A mock air raid in a Japanese city. Smoke-filled city during simulated air raids. Japanese biplanes in flight over smoke cloud. Japanese anti-aircraft machine-gun crew firing at bi-winged aircraft in low flight during air raid practice.