Reenactment: Prohibition. Two Speakeasy operators seated on chairs. Bottles of alcoholic beverages and other articles kept in front of them on a table. A lamp placed near the table. Rows of books arranged in shelves. They sample bootlegged liquors and inspect the bottles. One makes notes in a journal about the wares, presumably for ordering purposes. Speakeasy boss makes extended statement.
A man sits on a chair. He reads a newspaper. The headlines of the newspaper New York Post reads 'US probes "Invasion" broadcast, Radio play causes wide panic'. Photograph of Orson Welles, appears on front page of the newspaper. Man folds the newspaper and picks another with headline reading:" Radio War Hoax Panics Nation." Another newspaper headline reads 'Fake radio war stirs terror through US'. Several articles lying on table kept in front of him.
A woman wearing a nightgown sits on her bed. Another woman gives her a dress to wear. She takes the dress and puts it on her bed. She wears the dress, an looks out a window through venetian blinds. The woman demonstrates a florescent light to another woman. She wears a necklace and bangles. She models several fashions of hosiery and shows texture of hosiery weave. A woman brings tea to her on a bamboo tea cart without wheel, that slides instead of rolling. She sits on a sofa. She lights a lamp.
A woman homemaker works in a kitchen in the 1930s. Housewife wears an apron over her dress and cooks bacon and eggs on a gas range. She also checks on a casserole in the oven. She grates cheese, cores an apple, and cuts bread.
A woman prepares to take a shower. She demonstrates a plastic shower curtain. Bathroom fittings like taps and shower in view. A bathtub in the background. In another scene, the woman wears a dressing gown and enters a bathtub behind a translucent folding screen.
Lakefront view of Chicago skyline. Paved roads and garden in the foreground. Crowds of pedestrians on Chicago street. Cattle being herded in Chicago stock yards. Visitor on bridge looks at Tribune Tower. View from car driving along city street. Cars parked "bumper to bumper" on street, under sign reading: 'No parking at any time'. Store front signs read: 'International Barber College' and 'Premier Laundry'. Nighttime street scenes with neon signs for Jim Saine's Restaurant and for Tradewinds Restaurant and Lounge. Visitor dancing with a woman in a dance club or dance hall. A man tries to "cut in." Traffic on South Michigan Avenue with many vintage 1940s and 1950s cars and automobiles. Visitor interrupts two men talking on the sidewalk, and offends them so they walk away. The Visitor rows a boat, alone, in a lake.
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