Technicians working at the serology unit of the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) laboratory. A technician collects blood sample from a shirt belonging to a suspect. The examiner drops benzidine reagent and dilute hydrogen peroxide into the blood sample in cotton swab. The blood sample turns blue. The examiner writes down notes and cuts a sample from the shirt for microchemical hemoglobin test. He places the sample on the microscope slide. The examiner applies a reagent on the sample in the microscope slide. The slide is warmed before being placed under a microscope. The examiner uses the microscope. Red crystals indicating the presence of hemoglobin found under a microscope. The examiner runs test for origin and blood group of the sample. The examiner also gathers samples from the unstained part of the cloth. The samples are placed on test tubes which are placed on a rack. The examiner marks the locations where the samples were taken in the clothing. The examiner writes notes on his worksheet. Blood serums are added to the samples. The rack containing samples are placed inside a refrigerator overnight. The examiner brings out a vial containing liquid blood sample from the same refrigerator. The liquid blood sample is centrifuged, and samples are gathered for a liquid blood grouping slide. Testing solutions are added to the samples. The slide is agitated to expedite the grouping reaction. The examiner reads the slide through a microscope. The examiner brings out vials of samples from blood-stained fabric gathered the day before. The test tubes are placed on the centrifuged machine. Blood samples on vials are placed in small rack. The examiner determines blood sample to be of human origin. Centrifuged grouping samples are placed in grouping slides to determine blood type. Examiner reads samples microscopically. A technician fills out a worksheet. Law enforcement officers read a laboratory report from the FBI.
Young man carves message on tree and kisses his fiancee. Scene of furniture being removed from a house during an eviction. Couple talks with an old bearded man who is in a rocking chair on a house porch. He shows them a newspaper advertisement for 'Sterling Homes' includes headline 'Come to Bay City at Our Expense.' Couple leaves with older man. Visitors tour offices where draftsmen draw plans for hundreds of variations of home designs, and the homes can be manufactured and delivered. Prospective buyers study pictures of home models, and blueprint plans. View of a lumber yard and sawmill by railroad tracks, where logs arrive for milling and use in homebuilding. They watch as new logs are offloaded from truck into pond, and as picker walks on logs in water and directs them onto belt for passage into saw mill. Massive log roughly 6 feet in diameter on feeder belt. Mill workers run beside it and jump on top of it. In a factory, women workers assemble boards and beams and affix using glueing under 10 tons pressure. Modular home pieces are packed and ready for shipping to buyer. Young couples and older friend get into automobile to view potential lots for their new house. Horse drawn land leveling equipment being used near new home sites. Carpenters assemble prefabricated home. A Vulcanite Shingle date calender shows the date to be Saturday, June 28, 1919. View of a completed home. Young man places a wedding ring on his new bride's finger at their wedding. She holds a bouquet of flowers.
The Battle of Monte Cassino. Aerial view of the town and abbey in Italy. During an exercise west of Cassino, near Monte Camino, New Zealand gunners fire British 6 Pounder Antitank gun and a captured German Pak 40 75mm antitank gun, Views of the anti-tank men loading and firing their weapon. Smoke rises due to the firing. As part of the exercise, Infantry of 24th Battalion, 2nd Division,New Zealand Expeditionary Force, advance with fixed bayonets and one fires a machine gun. Group of New Zealand soldiers stand near a jeep and a destroyed U.S. Sherman tank of 756th Tank Battalion, amidst destroyed buildings in the north of Cassino. Several New Zealand soldiers smile for the camera. (World War II period).
New York Giants wins against the San Francisco 49ers in Seattle, Washington. Large crowd of spectators cheer the football teams. 49ers quarterback Y.A. Tittle connects with a pass to Billy Wilson. Alex Webster and Don Heinrich of the New York Giants team play hard. Score board reads 17 points for San Francisco 49ers and 14 points for New York Giants. New York Giants wins against the San Francisco 49ers by 29-17. Also seen is Alex Webster running for big yards and for a touchdown.
Unemployed African American men and various skilled and unskilled workers get jobs through Works Progress Administration (WPA) during great depression. Men gathered near Quartermaster office at a Bolling Field construction project in Washington DC. Laborers assist in building and grading runways at Bolling Field military installation. Men clear large rocks and debris from a jobsite. Workers smooth and grade runways. A steam shovel moves earth and loads a truck. Scene changes to New York City where a housing demolition project is shown, with men dismantling housing to prepare new moderate income housing. Bricks slide sown a chute away from the building. Workers at Colonial Park in Harlem New York are seen building a new bath house to accompany a newly completed swimming pool (later Jackie Robinson Pool).
Ku Klux Klan (KKK) members rally at a ceremony in Stone Mountain Georgia, USA. Members of the KKK group walk. Men, presumably new inductees, walk in a line, each with one hand on the shoulder of the person walking in front of him, and each with a partial mask covering their eyes. They all sit. New members raise one of their hand to take an oath for membership in the group. A KKK member wearing a mask holds the flag of the U.S. A new inductee kneels and the KKK official in mask puts his hand on his head. The man then kisses the American flag. Hooded KKK members clap as new members are recognized. KKK members hold a cross. They gather around a fire. Ku Klux Klan members stand beside a burning cross.
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