United States orphans enjoy a watermelon feast in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania during the Great Depression. Children hand out watermelons to orphans from a truck. Hundreds of orphans eat watermelon seated on an open ground. Group of children fight for a watermelon. Man stands next to a pile of watermelon.
Gangster Lester Joseph Gillis, nicknamed "Baby Face Nelson" is killed by United States FBI Agents in Barrington, Illinois. Official stands next to a car on an empty road where Baby Face Nelson was killed. Police officer inspects tree or telephone pole sprayed with machine gun bullets. Still images of persons involved in the case, including Agent Hollis who was killed in the gunfight. View of an older, unidentified woman. Corpse of Baby Face Nelson in the morgue. Scene changes to armed FBI agents patrolling in front of the Lake County Jail house from which John Dillinger escaped. It is followed by footage of Gangster John Dillinger talking, smiling, and laughing with a group of people. Next scene is crowd of people in front of Biograph Theatre in Chicago Illinois on July 22, 1934, soon after John Dillinger was killed there by FBI agents. View of dead body of John Dillinger lying on table in morgue.
Outdoor scenes in the United States. Wagon drawn by mule crosses a flowing stream. African American driver of wagon holds reins while standing in the wagon, that is loaded with lumber. Next scene: Man pats his hunting dog as he retrieves a bird that the hunter has shot. Two hunters with shotguns in a field. Hunter in a field takes out game from mouth of the retriever dog.
Manufacturing of saw blades at the Disston Saw Works factory founded by Henry Disston & Sons, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A long ribbon of flat steel, roughly one foot wide, being forged and then pressed and rolled in a series of rollers that descend from a furnace. Flames seen at the furnace area. Molten steel for the saw blade manufacturing flowing from a trough, very close to the furnace. A side view of an assembly of rollers with hot steel moving across them.
Scenes inside the saw manufacturing plant of the Henry Disston & Sons Company (Disston Saw Works), in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1920. Closeup of clamps holding items during manufacture. A worker holding a piece of sheet steel and moving it through a mechanical cutting tool that is creating teeth on the saw blade edge. Workers pulling hot hand saw blanks out of an annealing furnace and placing them into a bin. Worker maintaining movement of sheet stock, that already has teeth cut into it, as it passes under a stamping machine. Closeup of a finished hand saw with the Henry Disston & Sons company trademark embossed on it. (The company hand saw division was subsequently sold a number of times, and the brand is now part of Disston Precision Incorporated.)
Operations in manufacture of large commercial circular saw blades in the Henry Disston And Sons plant, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A man is seen tending a machine setting the teeth on a large circular saw blade. Team of men controlling the movement of a large circular saw blank as it moves under a teeth cutting machine tool.
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