"Things to come" opens with scenes from the World Motor Sports car show at Madison Square Garden in New York City, United States. Foreign imported and domestic American cars, including many concept cars and futuristic space age cars, are being displayed at the 1950s automobile show. Young women get into cars to get a closer look at the new automobiles. Next scene shows a housewife in a modern, futuristic kitchen with many gadgets. A push button kitchen with an automatic refrigerator and cabinet is seen. The woman homemaker presses a button to raise the counter top height in the kitchen of the future. Woman wearing apron consults a revolving picture board of menus and recipes above the stove. Woman puts toast in hidden toaster recessed in stove top. She waves her hand and a cabinet lowers down containing dishes. A cook presses a button and a rotisserie oven raises up, and its door opens to reveal meat roasting inside.
New models of cars being displayed at Grand Central Palace at the Auto Show in New York City. Internal parts, machinery, wheels, braking system and interiors of cars are also seen. First car seen is a 1936 DeSoto made by Chrysler. The demonstration shows the right side of the car being removed to reveal the interior. Two other cars are shown.
World War 2 period newsreel titled "Maritime hero day." A large number of mariners and citizens gather at a ceremony outside the Federal Hall Sub-Treasury building on Wall Street in New York City to pay tribute to Maritime service. Widow of Albert Fentris being presented the Mariners medal at the ceremony. A wreath is cast in the sea to commemorate dead heroes. U.S. Merchant Marine sailors train and parade in a ceremony at the U. S. Maritime Service Training Station facility at Sheepshead Bay, New York.
A newsreel titled 'Hauptmann dies in electric chair for kidnap and murder', shows police officers outside the prison where Hauptmann has been executed in electric chair for the murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., son of aviator Charles Lindbergh, in Trenton, New Jersey. Electric chair and a picture of Hauptmann are seen. Journalists and reporters send news about the execution over phone and others type the story. A witness of the execution is being interviewed by a reporter.
Promotional film for TAT-Maddux airlines shows shows the route of a Ford Trimotor from Waynoka to Clovis, New Mexico. Passengers disembark from a train and board a Ford Trimotor. Plane taxis along and then takes off. A map shows route from Clovis to Albuquerque, New Mexico. Plane flies over mountains,over Albuquerque and lands at an airport. Women look at Native American Indian wares and enter the terminal. Native American Indian family looks at the plane.
Elevated panorama view, in 1905, from newly constructed Times Building at Broadway and 42nd Street, (Times Square) New York City. Other buildings, streets and traffic on the streets. Woman hanging out wash on roof of nearby building. Church with tall steeple. Public park with serpentine paths. The newly constructed Hippodrome Theater, on 6th Avenue. A small building displays sign reading: "New York Theater."
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