Former U.S. President Herbert Hoover delivers an enthusiastic speech to the Republican National Convention, during the Great Depression. Speaking out against Democratic Party New Deal programs under President Roosevelt, former President Hoover says "For the first time in the history of America, we have heard the gospel of class hatred preached from the White House." He goes on to speak against high government spending and the increase in the U.S. national debt. He states that the number unemployed is the same as at the time of the 1932 election. He wonders "what is going to be done after the election with these measures which the Constitution forbids, and the people by their votes have never authorized? What do the New Dealers propose to do with these unstable currencies, these unbalanced budgets, these debts and these taxes?" He goes on to say "our system is a government of laws and not of men. And the Republican party holds to its promises and its laws." Huge applause in the public auditorium. The NBC, MBS, CBS networks broadcast his speech.
A film titled 'Iowa farmer wins U.S. Corn husking title' shows people gathered in large numbers to witness the United States corn husking competition in Licking county in Ohio. Carl Carlson from Iowa wins title by husking 1,472.75 lbs. in eighty minutes.
Steam locomotive pulls long passenger train up to dirigible hangar at Lakehurst Naval Air Station.Visitors crowded aroung outside the hangar to see the German dirigible, LZ 129, Hindenburg, parked inside the hangar. Crowd enters the gate of the building. Sign overhead reads 'No Packages or Cameras allowed inside hangar'. The visitors are monitored by U.S. Marines and U.S. Navy personnel, as they enter the hangar.
Crowd assembled to see German zeppelin airship, LZ-129 Hindenburg, descending to land, upon arrival on its first flight to the United States, at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey. Mooring tower and U.S. Navy dirigible LZ-126 the USS Los Angeles (ZR-3) are seen on the field. A DC-2 aircraft takes off in front of the Hindenburg as it approaches. Ground crew secures the Hindenburg to the Mooring tower. Officers of the Hindenburg look out from the control room.Officials gather underneath the airship. Passengers look out windows of the cabin. A tractor,built into the mooring tower, travels along a track to move the hindenburg, while ground crews hold lines to stabilize the air ship.
A film depicts an impressionistic study of Washington DC on a typical depression day. Traffic on a street. The Lincoln Memorial and a statue of Lincoln. A view of the memorial. The dome of the United States Capitol. 1930's era cars and automobiles on the roads of Washington DC, including some closeup views of automobiles. Car exit a building marked as "Capitol Garage." People on the streets. People gathered in front of a theater box office. Man stands by a taxi cab and pays the taxi driver as he is dropped off. A fast food restaurant with sign White Tower Hamburgers at either 631 F Street NW or 1419 I Street NW Washington DC. Night scenes show traffic on the streets and the dome of the United States Capitol with fountains in front of the building.
Soil erosion in the United States shows heavily eroded soil during the Dust Bowl era. Dusty field in the Great Plains region of the United States during the Great Depression. Close up of windmill spinning quickly. Dusty road and sign that reads “Dalhart city limit.” Wind blowing against a wire fence. Thick clouds forming as dust storm approaches. A man runs to his house just before dust storm hits. Dust storm enveloping field. Close up view of dust piling up on field. A woman picks her child up and runs into house as dust storm hits. A man runs as strong winds blow in the dust storm. Aftermath of a dust storm. Sand covers the whole farm in large drifts of dust. Car and wagon buried in sand. Barren farm land covered in dust during the Great Depression,
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