The Niagara Falls freezes due to cold wave. Women and children look at the Niagara Falls which has frozen due to a cold wave. Ice accumulates against the wall. Ice floats in water. Ice walls hang from the rocks. A 30 feet thick bridge of ice at the bottom of the gorge.
At start, film shows Dr. Leo Szilard (inventor of the cyclotron) standing in front of a cyclotron in the Pepin Physics Laboratory of Columbia University. He is studying some documented research results. Dr. George Pegram, Chairman of Columbia's Physics Department, enters and converses with Szilard. They review the research data together. Pegram leaves, and Szilard continues to review data. He holds a stop watch and enters some numbers in his journal. Dr. Pegram returns and they again look at the data. Closeup of the two reviewing data and conversing. Repeat of Szilard with stop watch, entering data. Closeups of Szilard speaking to Pegram (unseen). Closeup of Dr. Pegram, talking about the research results. (These repeated scenes are obviously retakes.) Closeup of Szilard's hand starting a stopwatch. Horizontal line and brief vertical lines also displayed on an oscilloscope.
Experimenters place rocket plane (named Gloria), intended to carry postal mail, on a launch ramp. The rocket is ignited and the rocket aircraft rises but quickly falls to the frozen surface of the lake. It scoots along the ice.
Animal tamer Clyde Beatty tames lions in a circus in Atlantic City. Beatty tames caged lions. Spectators watch from outside the cages.
A pilot sits in the cockpit of an aircraft with engine running. A large sedan,with uniformed police officers riding on its running boards,races up to the aircraft. Pilot hands objects from cockpit to officers and car speeds away. Aircraft is low wing cantilevered monoplane with radial engine.
U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt seated in an open car. Large crowd surrounds the car. One young man has climbed partway up a tree to get a better look. The cameraman apparently loses control of his camera, which records while he is walking. Resulting views are upside down and generally meaningless. Scene stabilizes showing a camera on the ground and film roll in hands of a man.
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