View of waste disposal area during cleanup after flood in Rapid City. Trucks loaded with debris enter and dump debris. Volunteer direct traffic in heavy dust as trucks enter and leave disposal area. Civilian, state, military and contractor's truck haul debris out of flood area. Masked volunteer on road.
Wrecked trailer homes and damaged cars in flood stricken area of Rapid City. Trees in area. Men repair rail road tracks. Damaged and wrecked trailer homes. Convoy of military trucks heading for flood stricken area.
Relief operations after floods in Rapid City. Sign on trailer home reads 'Emergency Temporary Housing Application and Information Center'. Men enter trailer homes. Workers give finishing touch to HUD (Housing and Urban Development) trailer homes. The homes are set down on cement blocks and plumbing is added to structures. Men working under trailer home. HUD mobile trailer park showing sections where new mobile homes will be placed. Sign reads 'Federal Disaster Assistance'. Tractor tows new trailer home into HUD lot and backs it into its designated spot. Flood victims enter their new HUD mobile home.
In South Bend, Indiana, views of a "Giant Car" Studebaker roadster built by a group of 60 craftsmen working under Studebaker's Paul Auman. This giant scale version 1931 model 80 Studebaker Four Season Roadster was used in the film "Wild Flowers." The Giant Car is 41 feet long with a wheel base of 325 inches. It is 13 1/2 feet high, 15 feet wide, and weighed 5 1/2 tons. Men drive up beside the giant President roadster in a normal vehicle. Some use a rope ladder to climb up into the giant car and others climb up the wheel fender and then onto the hood. A boy is shown trying unsuccessfully to climb up a giant wheel of the car (each wire wheel was 6 feet 8 inches in diameter and weighed 600 pounds). The boy's small pedal car is seen beside the Giant Car tire. A police officer in a motorcycle rides up beside the giant car. He places a board-style 'Police Ticket' on the running board and then climbs up onto the running board to present the ticket to a woman who is behind the wheel of the giant roadster.
More than 200 motion picture writers and critics including 80 from Europe, Asia and South America attend a luncheon at Universal City, a hub of the Entertainment world. There is a preview of the movie "Iit's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World" chase comedy in manner of Keystone Cops series. Hollywood celebrity Sid Caesar talking to producer Stanley Kramer. Actor Ronald Reagan greeting guests at event with master of ceremonies Edward Muhl. Actress Hedda Hopper in a notable hat. Gregory Peck and Fifi D'Orsay seated at tables. Ethel Merman is shown, and then Rock Hudson talking to Milton Berle. Celebrities seated in groups.
Scene opens with music playing and a large sign displayed reading: "2:oo AM, Band, Forks of Salmon Fire Camp." (Forks of Salmon is an unincorporated community of Siskiyou County in northern California, USA.) A band (named 2:00 AM) is playing and several people are dancing. Announcer states that the band members lost their home in the (still uncontained) fire, last Monday (August 31, 1987). A firefighter member of a Rocky Mountain team from Colorado, Wyoming, and South Dakota, wearing yellow shirt and red cap, expresses appreciation for welcome by Californians.
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