A documentary on Weather Bureau's Hurricane Warning Center in Miami, Florida. An aircraft in flight overhead. A routine report is sent by the crew of the aircraft to the hurricane center. The pilot, he co-pilot, the navigator and other members of the crew seated inside the aircraft. Weather conditions are observed and recorded. A radar operator working and looking for any unusual conditions. The information is transmitted to the center. Women working and typing messages at the center. A map locates Miami and information about weather conditions is circulated to other areas from Miami. A ship underway at sea. Men locating the position of a hurricane on a map. They discuss amongst themselves. The crew of the aircraft being instructed by an officer. An airplane parked at an air base. It takes off. Animation shows the position of the hurricane and the air movement. The information is circulated to people. A man reading news about the hurricane in a newspaper. A man and a woman seated at a beach. A sailing boat underway in the foreground.
The use of oyster money in Raymond, Washington. Exterior of a building. A board reads: 'First Willapa Harbor National Bank'. Men and women working inside the bank. Emergency money is printed by the Chamber of Commerce as a stopgap measure after the bank fails during the Great Depression. The new currency bears the picture of an oyster. Men and women working inside the building.
The 1932 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. New York Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt with his daughter Anna Roosevelt and granddaughter Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Dall (sometimes known as Sistie) outside a building circa 1930. Roosevelt holds a cane while leaning against a column and plays with his grandson using the cane. People gather in the convention hall for the 1932 Democratic National Convention. Roosevelt addresses them, speaking of the need to "break foolish traditions" and "to win in this crusade to restore America to its own people." The people applaud.
Safety measures to be undertaken while working. Boxes are loaded in a hand truck in the United States beside a warehouse. The boxes fall on a passerby due to being carelessly loaded on the hand truck. A worker carefully lines up the boxes on the truck. Inside a factory plant, a worker rolls up the sleeves of his shirt before operating a large drill press in the factory. View of a large platform machine being operated by a giant pulley. A foreman views the pulley and the worker stops the machine. The pulley is disengaged and a man approaches with safety barricade pieces to place around the pulley while it is worked on. Slate indicates, "Cyanide is valuable in treating steel, but it is dangerous to the eyes. Use goggles and be safe. A worker working without goggles is then seen near a furnace. He covers his face with his hands and runs away from the furnace. A maintenance worker partially disassembles and then attaches a new guard over a large grinding wheel in a factory.
Wounded and recovering veteran soldiers in the United States learn new skills and practice physical therapy after World War 1. Exterior of a building. Recuperating U.S. Army soldiers accompanied by nurses leave the building by way of a long ramp. Vehicles drive past the building. Interior of an office. An assignment officer interviewing soldiers. The soldiers operate machine tools and a pedal-driven saw. A man with bandaged eyes making wicker furniture. A display of lamps and other small articles. Disabled veterans walk along a hallway. Men exercising in a gymnasium. A photographer sets up a studio portrait of a soldier.
Panorama of business district Tacoma in Washington, United States. Aerial view of buildings. A drawbridge. Ships at anchor. Pacific Avenue, the main business artery of Tacoma. Horse-drawn vans and pedestrian traffic. Several parks and open spaces in the city. Residential areas in the city. Point Defiance Park. Exterior of several buildings. Men walking in parks and towards the buildings. Complete change of scene, from Tacoma, to views of the first Thurston County Courthouse, in Olympia, Washington, where the State Legislature met in a new East Wing, from 1905 to 1927. (Aka the old Capitol).
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