Shows two men entering a printing press office in Cummington. Man loads barrels on a truck. 'York Orchards, Cummington, Massachusetts' written on the door of the truck. Men work in a workshop. Woman plays piano while a man plays a flute. An old man plays a violin. Bridge over a canal. View of the canal and the surrounding fields. Farmers work in orchards. Horse cart loaded with crop moves on a road. Film narrated in Hungarian. Music by Aaron Copland
Shows a woman sweeping the backyard of her house in Cummington. Pile of dead leaves and vegetation burns nearby. Men lay coal-tar on a road. Several farm activities. Small boy carrying plant pot in hands talks to adults. He puts the pot on ground and leaves. Scenes inside a printing press office. Group of men in conversation inside a room. Film narrated in Hungarian. Music by Aaron Copland
Motorcycle road test in United States. American motorcycle dispatch riders drive their bikes on extremely rough and rugged terrain through cross country United States. Riders take several bumps and some of them tumble off their bikes.
View of the Ford Willow Run Bomber Plant in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Henry Ford in conversation with the British and American supply heads, Oliver Littleton and Donald Nelson. A B-24 bomber in the background. The touring party visits assembly line of the Ford Tank Plant. Several tanks roll out of the plant. In Washington DC China's Foreign Minister TV Soong concludes a land lease agreement with the U.S. Secretary of the State, Hall. On the Pacific Coast workers of a bomber plant are visited by the American Hero of War, General James Doolittle. General addresses the workers. The workers applaud and cheer. General Doolittle smiles and poses.
Herman Pirchner, owner of Cleveland's legendary Alpine Village nighclub, lifts together fifty-five mugs of beer at a bar in Cleveland, Ohio. He duplicates his world record by picking up and carrying 55 mugs of beer at one time. (The record was originally set at a competition hosted by Budweiser beer to commemorate its 100th anniversary.) Customers at the bar cheer him. Pichner carefully places the beer beer mugs on a table, losing only one in the process. He raises a toast along with the fellow bar waiters and drinks his entire glass of beer.
Documentary titled 'Tick Tock'. The intricate processes in the manufacture of watch parts and their assembly. Hands displays clock and watch wheels. View of the dies from which the wheels are stamped. Machine with die in place stamps wheels from strip of metal. Wheels from strip are detached. Die in operation. Hands display strip with wheels cut from it. Watch case pendants drilled and lantern pinion turned. Pendant of pocket watch. Small parts poured into machine. Pinion is placed through center hole in wheel. Machine picks up pinions and places them in vice. Tiny lathe in operation. Women workers work at row of machines. Tweezers are used to remove pinion from tiny lathe. Woman worker works at lathe machine. Process of drilling plates and assembling watch. Woman worker operates machine. Watch parts are assembled from small bins. Crystals are fitted. Women workers hung watches on boards. Watches are checked and removed from the board. Watches placed on a table.
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