A phosphate mine in the United States. Revolving drums. Piles of rock at the mine. A worker points towards phosphate rock on the ground. Two men leave the mine tunnel. A rock comes out on an endless belt and drops to the ground. A steam shovel picks it up and deposits it in a huge hopper. The rock placed on the surface.
Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Louisiana. Decorated floats at a parade on Mardi Gras. Krewe participants in elaborate costumes throw trinkets to spectators. Some spectators catch Mardi Gras throws from passing floats. A band plays in the parade. People cheer as decorated floats move past them on the streets of New Orleans.
A levee in New Orleans, Louisiana. A man rows a boat across a water body. Houses submerged in flood water. View of the levee.
Two boys in the United states. Two prisoners seated on the ground. Their feet stuck up in stocks. The prisoners seated with shaved heads.
Packaging of date palms in Los Angeles, California. Workers in a date orchard place boxes of dates on a truck. The truck being driven away. Exteriors of a building as the truck pulls up. Boxes of date being unloaded. A worker closes a pressure cooker inside a packing plant. The pressure gauge on the cooker. The worker adjusts the safety valve. Workers dig up and reset date palms.
Cotton picking in the United States. A car and a horse drawn wagon meet on a country road. The car and the wagon stop. A man gets out of the car and talks to the driver of the wagon. A man looks at cotton flowers, developing bolls. The man breaks open a boll. Cotton inside the boll. The man picks out cotton from the broken boll. Cotton being pulled apart.