Working American women at home using modern conveniences in the post war era. American woman puts meat loaf in oven. Man screws a towel rack into place. Housewife at oven as daughter comes in kitchen, talks to mother, then leaves. Girl and boy children in 1950s era family set dinner table. Sign 'Fellowship House YWCA'. Girl walks up path towards house. Girl irons dress. Other girl enters and she crosses room and sits on sofa. A man’s photograph is displayed behind the girl ironing clothes. College banners from Columbia, NYU and Fordham decorate the living room. Girl files her nails. A framed college graduation photo on display. Woman walks up path into house. Father sits in easy chair as she walks in and kisses him on forehead. Woman enters kitchen and takes cookie from jar. She walks to mother at sink and kisses her. Woman inserts eggbeater attachment to Mixmaster mixer, pushes button and eggbeater spins. A woman sits on her desk. Woman reads her family’s monthly bills before writing checks. A music appreciation group comprised of young people listen to music in a living room. A man talks to a woman knitting. Music record spins on vinyl LP phonograph record player. Couple sits on couch. Girl strokes a kitten in lap as they listen to music. Kitten jumps up. View of a living room console radio and a man seated in the same room reading the newspaper. Woman knits. View of a Movie theater marquee advertising movies "Angel on the Amazon" and "The Last Bandit." Young woman and young woman couple on a date stand in front of theater at the ticket box office. Boy steps to movie theater box office ticket window then takes the girl’s hand as they walk in. Scenes return to house, with young woman as she reads in bed, puts book away, turns off radio and light, and goes to sleep. Husband and wife are asleep. Wife turns in her sleep.
An alarm clock atop a radio. Young woman reaches with her hand and turns off alarm clock. Woman stretching in bed gets up, gives girl in other bed a poke, pulls cover off, puts on robe and walks out as other young woman gets up. Woman opens venetian blinds and rubs her eyes. Woman's feet getting in to slippers. Woman seated on edge of bed. She stands, stretches, yawns and walks out. Women workers busy in factory as they assemble and check tiny parts for hearing aids. Working women on break in rest room sit and read, some talk. One girl primps and adjusts her hair at a mirror, and smokes a cigarette. Nurse bandages a young woman's finger in the company infirmary.
Ellisworth Artis, Georgette Seabrooke, Richard William Lindsey, Charles Alston, Marvin Gray Johnson, Augusta Savage and Richmond Barthe teach painting, etching and sculpture. James A. Porter, writer, gathers materials for his book on African American achievements. Mrs. William E Harmon and others at exhibition of Spanish African American art by Pastor Argudin y Pedroso.
Dionne quintuplets, the five identical sisters from Canada, present at launch of five cargo ships at Walter Butler Shipbuilders in Superior, Wisconsin. Luggage belonging to the five Dionne quintuplets. The Dionne sisters and their parents wave from a moving railroad train. The Dionne sisters each launch a ship one after the other assisted by a U.S. Navy officer. The Dionne sisters and their mother walk escorted by navy officers.
Omaha Class U.S. cruisers at sea. B-17 D Flying Fortesses lined up to take off. A B-17 D Flying Fortess takes off. Flying Fortess in formation with close up of engine and spinning propellers. PT boats (patrol torpedo boats) under construction at factory. PT boat at sea. Formation of PT boats at sea. Narrator notes that all equipment is bound for England as part of the Lend Lease Act. USA flag superimposed over signature page of the Lend Lease Act.
Actors portray 19th century folks riding bicycles, on an outing in the country. Woman on bicycle, country road, with men as well. As the road narrows, one of the cyclists falls. The party decide to turn back to the better road again. Scene shifts to Detroit, Michigan, where actor portrays Henry Ford working on his Quadricycle. He is depicted working on it at night in his home workshop. One night he pushes it out for a trial run, and drives it successfully on the neighborhood streets. A couple in an early American automobile being pulled along a dirt road by a horse. Two men driving an early car that stops unexpectedly. They open the hood to look for the problem.
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