"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.
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.
Shoreline shows a large sign 'Welcome Home'. Bow of the giant ocean liner Queen Mary underway. Tug boats approach Queen Mary. Statue of Liberty on Liberty Island. Views of skyscrapers and skyline of New York City. Ship Queen Mary enters New York harbor. It is filled with U.S. soldiers returning from World War 2 military service in Europe. Queen Mary in Hudson River.
Ship SS Normandie silhouetted against New York skyline. Capsized SS Normandie lie at docks of New York City harbor following fire accident. Her mooring lines pulled.
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