Senator Hubert Humphrey is chosen by U.S. President Lyndon Johnson to be a candidate for the Vice-Presidential elections. Senator Hubert Humphrey and President Lyndon Johnson driven off in a car. President Lyndon Johnson at the U.S. Capitol building during the oath ceremony after winning the Presidential elections. His supporters cheer holding banners. President Johnson waves at the crowd. President Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson in New Jersey. A crowd cheers and applauds on hearing the President's speech.
School girls model new fashions in stylish outfits inspired by screen stars at Plaza Hotel in New York City. Young girls pose to model in summer and winter clothing including skirts, jackets, ski wear and robes. The clothing styles are inspired by singing star Gloria Jean.
Aviator Jimmie Mattern in Floyd Bennett Field, New York. Jimmie Mattern boards the aircraft and takes off for his trip across the Atlantic. Crowd watches as the young Texas pilot takes off.
News headlines in New York. Two men drink and talk at a bar about Russia and read a newspaper. The newspaper insert in one of the man's hand reads "European Peace Bid Rejected by Soviet". Views of man talking and drinking.
Professor Pierre Joliot tests uranium disintegration in Columbia University, New York. Joliot uses Geiger-Muller counter and notes down the readings. He controls the voltage. Joliot uses Geiger-Muller counter with a standard uranium source as placed on GM tube and take it off. A voltage control equipment is shown.
At start, film shows Dr. Leo Szilard (inventor of the cyclotron) standing in front of a cyclotron in the Pepin Physics Laboratory of Columbia University. He is studying some documented research results. Dr. George Pegram, Chairman of Columbia's Physics Department, enters and converses with Szilard. They review the research data together. Pegram leaves, and Szilard continues to review data. He holds a stop watch and enters some numbers in his journal. Dr. Pegram returns and they again look at the data. Closeup of the two reviewing data and conversing. Repeat of Szilard with stop watch, entering data. Closeups of Szilard speaking to Pegram (unseen). Closeup of Dr. Pegram, talking about the research results. (These repeated scenes are obviously retakes.) Closeup of Szilard's hand starting a stopwatch. Horizontal line and brief vertical lines also displayed on an oscilloscope.
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