Boys devise home-made diving bell in Stone Harbor, New Jersey. A boy is made to wear a diving bell on the head by another boy, in front of a building. A few men and women watch them. Weights tied on to a rope secured to the boy's waist. Three boys on a boat in a water body. The boy wearing the diving bell goes down the water. The boy under the water. Fishes moving under the water beside the boy. The boy reading from a book under the water. The boy comes up from the water. The boys on the boat help the boy up from the water.
Mechanics during the final stages of work of world's largest conduit, in New York City, New York. Workers during the final stages of phone lines laying work on the shore of Harlem River. A giant cast iron pipe section is lowered by a crane on the river shore. Mechanics working with phone wires. A few men stand inside the pipe and discuss. Mechanics at work. The workers with the aid of an equipment lower the giant cast iron pipe into the Harlem River. A worker who went underwater comes up and is helped by another worker.
A man presents International Laurel Award to Milton Rackmil, President of Universal International in New York. He is voted by International film buyers. One of the men standing by Milton shows the award.
Visitors board and crowd the deck of the USS Wasp (CV-18) in June, 1945, near the end of world War II. The Wasp is about to depart again, for the Western Pacific, following repairs at Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington. Two U.S. marines are escorting two women, and showing them an F4U Corsair airplane on the deck. Some of the visitors look up toward the camera. The aircraft on deck have been arranged for this static display. visitors are seen departing across a gangplank. Views from deck of the Wasp, of Navy personnel on the pier, below. Camera pans across the pier where spectators still stand. A few people stand on the water side of a building. A large group of visitors coming up from the hangar deck. Civilians and sailors wave at the camera. Visitors leaving the carrier on the gangplank.
Diving stunts at George Hamid’s Aqua circus in New York. Divers perform various aqua stunts at the Aqua circus. Water splashes in the swimming pool. In the grand finale the entire group dives and the water splashes in the pool.
The launch of the National Foundation's expanded 1959 Program for Victories Beyond Polio in New York. Children suffering from Polio, Arthritic disease and birth disease attend the launch of National Foundation's expanded 1959 Program. They move on crutches and wheelchair. Women accompany the children. The three children are the representatives of the March of Dimes Against Arthritis, birth defects and Polio. Women hold posters.
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