Workmen guide a truck carrying the top half of a wood frame house on a narrow path through woods. The truck in a large clearing in the woods. Next the bottom half of the house is seen with cables wrapped around it and a steel girder above. in the next scene, has been moved to the clearing and men stand atop it, while an 80 ton crane slowly raises the upper half and maneuvers it toward the lower half. The Crane belongs to the C.P. Ward Company, a New York State General Contractor Firm. The crane operator and workmen guide the upper half of the house into place.
Excerpt from "The Netherlands -- A Country Claimed from the Sea." Map of Europe outlines the Netherlands including North and South Holland. Windmill near a water canal. Dutch man and children in native costumes. A busy city street. Dutch men, women, and teenagers on bicycles along with various cars and road traffic passing by. Vehicular traffic. View of a canal. A large steam ship passes under a canal bridge and after passing under, it erects its main smoke stack that had been pulled down or retracted to clear under the bridge.
Farms, dikes, and canals in the Netherlands. View of a dike in a Dutch village. An animated map shows flow of Rhine River and its connected smaller rivers in the Netherlands. A windmill in a farm. View of farmlands. Holstein Friesian cattle and sheep graze in farm.
Man opens a box of Cheese. '12 Holland Edam Cheese' written on the cheese box. Cheese slices cut. Tulip bulb uprooted from the soil and put into a bag in a crate full of tulip bulb bags. The crate closed. 'Product of Holland' written on bags and crate.
Dutch people from two small fishing villages at the IJsselmeer, Volendam and Marken, wear traditional costumes. Dutch woman in traditional costume stitches a cloth in The Netherlands. She poses for the camera. Two native children in the costumes at a dock area. Children pose for the camera. Docked boats in the background. Native children play outside their houses. Dutch man holds hand of a small girl. Old native smokes pipe. A small girl in a floral dress. Natives wear wooden shoes. Three old man dressed in traditional outfit converse near a dock. Scenes of native children. A windmill near a water canal.
A documentary film from the Rural Electrification Administration: "Power and the Land" about the lack of electric power in rural areas such as St. Clairsville, Ohio. Men with lamp walk on a pathway at dawn. A man feeds the cattle while another one is seen milking a cow in the light of a lamp. A woman pumps water, starts her work and children do their work in the dim light of la amp. Scenes of horses grazing in the field.