Los Angeles County Relief Administration (LACRA) workers cut and sort lumber in a Santa Monica, California lumber yard, largely comprised of old discarded sets from Hollywood movie studios. Truckloads of old wood arrive at the yard and it is sorted and cut further. Woman with a young boy stands in front of stacks of smaller lumber available to citizens as firewood, for aid during the Great Depression. The boy pulls his small wagon loaded with firewood.
Sewing Projects sponsored by the Los Angeles County Relief Administration (LACRA). Women workers enter building in California. They sew clothes on sewing machines. Women of all races work together to sew, knit and embroider clothes for the needy during the Great Depression.
Los Angeles County Relief Administration (LACRA) workers play baseball for recreation in California. LACRA member runs touching the bases on field.
Los Angeles County Relief Administration (LACRA) Concert band and Hawaiian Orchestra performs in California. Also the Hilbillies band performing and the Cowboy Troupe band. Narrator describes the bands, all part of the "Music Project" of the Relief Administration. The American flag flutters on pole.
Women participate in Ostrich race in El Cerrito, California. After several attempts to jump up and mount their ostriches, two young women manage to hold on and ride successfully. However, by the end, each had fallen from their respective ostriches.
Atlas missile 27E launches at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. Missile blows up soon after its launch. Fire and black smoke rises from the explosion.
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