Views of fireworks during night time in Memphis, Tennessee. Different kinds of fireworks over the river can be seen. A large crowd is gathered to view the fire show at the bank of river. Gathering turns out to pay tribute to Cotton.
The 1962 World's Fair opens in Seattle. Crowds gather at a stadium on the fair grounds as President John F. Kennedy remotely releases balloons via a telegraph key and phone connection while in his office. Nine aircraft in formation fly overhead. Views of the cable cars at the Word's Fair. Aerial view from cable car of the 1962 Word's Fair.
Athletes running on road in Boston Marathon, crowd cheering runners around the road. Eino Oksanen, a Finnish Marathon runner, dominates the field of 181 entrants to win the 26-mile run. Views of runners running on roads.
Interior of a house, woman hand over a newspaper to her husband, he sits on a chair as the daughter turns dial on the console radio when the father of the girl asks her to turn the radio volume down. Father comes out of house and dumps garbage in a refuse can. Woman walks outside a supermarket, and then enters, housewife picks vegetables, points at a meat counter, and butcher shows her a piece of meat. Man takes bills from the drawer, walks to table, removes pay check from the wallet and studies it. Interior of an auto factory, two men talking, and another one join them. Three men walk through glass door marked, "Conference Room", the three men walk to a table where management representatives are seated and are introduced. All sit and start discussions. Two men get up, shake hands and walk out. View of union UAW CIO local 22 headquarters signs on building. Boy and girl children learning to dance together in a hall of the union building.
Interior of a house, husband and wife flip through "New Homes" magazine. Man hands his wife a couple of twenty dollar bills which she places in bank deposit book. Man and woman come up, walk to door. Scenes in suburban neighborhood. Housewife hangs wash on line in backyard as neighbor comes to fence. Woman walks over to neighbor and talks. Man mowing grass with push mower, struggles with old mower. Neighbor brings him his new mower. Man and woman greet neighbors, group around a table in the living room, enjoying a game of playing cards. Man and his husband enter election headquarters. A young girl seated in a house, girl sobs over school books as her mother tries to comfort her. Father walks in, takes off coat, sits and helps daughter with school work. Woman enters "Andres Jackson Intermediate School" entrance. She walks along corridor, enters empty class room, goes over to teacher's desk, shakes hands with teacher.
Film begins showing a man riding a horse past some cattle grazing, in Tex during World War 2. A large windmill is turning nearby. A boy visiting from England, dressed in western clothes, waves to the rider as he enters an enclosure. The boy envisions the cowboy wearing a six gun. He rides alongside the cowboy as they go to inspect and repair barbed wire fencing. Closeups of barbed wire fence and cattle grazing in various areas. The cowboy, wearing a gun belt, uses the but of his pistol to hammer on a fence post. The two ride to an area labeled: "Check Plot No. 5." The cowboy climbs through barbed wire fence into the area where he takes and records measurements. Next, men are seen riding on harvesters, pulled by horses, cutting grasses. Another rides a tractor pushing a pile of harvested grasses atop a screen through which it passes onto a larger pile. The young boy sits on his horse looking glum. Next, cowboys begin a roundup of cattle. A horse-drawn wagon passes by, filled with harvested grasses. The driver throws lots of it on the ground to provide fodder for cattle when snow prevents them from normal grazing.
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