New York City residents deal with Summer heat by opening fire hydrants. Kids play in the water sprayed on the street. Young men driving an open top vehicle are sprayed with the fire hydrant. A woman crossing the street loses one of her shoes when it becomes stuck in the hot asphalt. Men and women drink chilled beer.
Worker wearing safety harness handles a twenty-ton glass disk in Corning, New York. The disk to be fitted into the world's largest telescope in California.
Scenes from an American football match between the Military Academy's cadets in New Haven, Connecticut. Thousands of spectators cheer from stands. Final results; Alabama beats Georgia 20 to12.
Shows pilots take off on their gliders from a field in Elmira, New York. Several gliders in flight. Richard C. Dupont in his glider attains 6500 feet and breaks the American record for motor-less aircraft.
Scenes from the Boy Scout Jamboree in Binghamton, New York. Boy scouts parade through the center of the town of Binghamton. Scouts lined up and sprayed with some kind of chemical agent (de-lousing?) at the camp. Scouts building a cooking fire. Scouts compete in a horse race in front of a packed grandstand, and the winners are awarded at a ceremony. Scouts gathered in an outdoor field doing a large group drill.
Hundreds of orphan children stand in long queues outside the Branford Theater in Newark, New Jersey. Children donated free movie tickets by Warner Brothers. Children wave at the camera.
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