Chickamauga Dam in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Presidential motorcade moves past a large crowd. A number of people gathers at the Chickamauga Dam as President Franklin D Roosevelt arrives for inspecting the dam.
A machine for fighting oil well fires. 75,000 pound fire fighting machine in Houston, Texas. A sign on the machine reads "Leroy Corporation, Houston Oil well Firefighters." View inside the machine as it is operated by LeRoy Ashmore. In a demonstration, the arm of the machine is positioned over a simulated oil well pipe on fire. Water begins to flow over the machine to cool it. The machine lowers a cap over the pipe, extinguishing the fire. (Note: LeRoy actually built 3 of these machines and named them Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, for the Biblical characters, who survived death from a fiery furnace, according to the book of Daniel. The walls of LeRoy's machines were hollow, allowing water pumped through them to circulate and keep the interior control room "water cooled" during fire fighting.)
26th Annual Bench Show at the Coliseum in Chicago, Illinois. Dogs of 24 different breeds displayed at the dog show. Children play with various dogs like pug, bull mastiff, terrier, bull dog and others.
James Roosevelt, son of Presdient Franklin D Roosevelt, seen in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, meeting with Samuel Goldwyn, the famous film executive and Hollywood movie business mogul. James Roosevelt examines a motion picture movie camera, with instruction from Samuel Goldwyn. They enter a movie studio office where Roosevelt signs a job contract and gets a film job with the Samuel Goldwyn Productions movie company.
President Herbert Hoover and others leave for fishing grounds in Long Key, Florida. President Herbert Hoover and others walk to the dock. Party gets into Jeremiah Milibank's boat ' Saunterer' Men push the boat away from the dock. Boat with an American flag hoisted on it. President and others take to smaller boats to catch sail fish.
Man swallows blades in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Paul O' Reilly puts an old razor blade on his tongue and swallows it.
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