Three thousand dogs along with their owners gather to participate in a dog show organized by Morris and Essex Kennel Club in Madison,New Jersey. Owners display their dogs at the show. The best dog in each category wins the award.
A high speed convertible armored machine designed by Walter Christie being tested at countryside in Linden,New Jersey. A man gets in the armored machine and conducts the test run.
Scene at Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Port Newark, New Jersey, as the U.S. Destroyer Escort USS McConnell is launched. Shipyard workers aboard the deck and handling lines. U.S. Naval Ensign displayed at her bow and crew looking down. Mrs. Grace Otteson McConnell swings the bottle of champagne and the USS McConnell slides down the ways after christening. View from deck of the McConnell as she goes down the ways. View from water, as she enters, stern-first. Change of scene to high vantage point overlooking the shipyard, at change of shift, when those ending leave and those arriving enter the yard to start work. Workers leaving through guarded gate. Incoming workers punching in on the time clock.
Burning of Standard Oil Company tanks at Bayonne in New Jersey. Fire triggered by a lightning strike during a thunder storm, which caused Naphtha tank No. 7 of Standard Oil Company's plant to explode. People on street in Bayonne, with sky darkened by the heavy smoke rising high above the town. People evacuate area threatened by the fire. Horse-drawn wagons carrying goods, follow wheel tracks in the street. Several men with bicycles. Two men pull a wagon loaded with bedding and furniture.
'$6,500,000 Pier Fire'. A raging fire rakes a railroad pier at Weehawken in New Jersey. Huge fire seen at the harbor. A cameraman takes pictures. Ambulances maintain vigil. In Tokyo, Japan, flames destroy the enlisted men's mess at the Palace Heights housing community. Enlisted men and their families flee from, from their Quonset type homes while the fire was being fought. People run to save their belongings.
A model car that drives itself is demonstrated at a research center at Princeton in New Jersey. Technicians raise the hood of the model automobile to show circuitry inside that guides the cars movement. A Charlie McCarthy doll with a cigarette in its mouth is in the drivers seat. The automobile automatically stops or passes other cars to avoid collisions by means of a wire guide installed below it. Another toy car is seen on the test track to demonstrate collision avoidance.
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