A park in Honolulu. View at Kapiolani Park. Pedestrians and traffic along road in park. Horseback riders in tree-shaded park. The famous banyan Tree. Wide spreading tree.
Animation depicts the high cost of living in Hawaii. A coconut palm tree on a beach. Man comes out of hut and climbs tree to get a coconut marking year 1900. Second time man wanting coconut. Tree becomes tall and coconut marks year 1920. Shows how high cost of living causes social unrest. Short palm tree with coconut marking year 1925.
Making a modern magazine. Exteriors of Ford River Rouge Plant of Ford Motor Company. Foundry interiors show various machines in operation. Machines emit smoke as a steel part is worked on assembly line. Scene changes to modern Industrial farming. View of farm tractor powered thresher in operation. Close view of book shelf titles and man examining books.
From a series of clips on the making of the modern magazine called the "Dearborn Independent." Scenes of cities all over the world from which reports come in for the magazine. View of railroad station in Europe, possibly France. Palm trees and foliage somewhere in Africa. In Sendai, Japan, view of men, women, and children along street. Japanese family eats, joined by several anglo men. View in South America of a river bank with huts. Somewhere in the American south: A city street with horse-drawn carriage and people walking beside grand homes. View of editorial page of the magazine and close up of 'Mr Ford's Page' (referring to Henry Ford).
Making of a modern magazine Dearborn Independent. Accepted and edited articles are turned over to artists for illustrating. Artists paint illustrations. Workers operate keyboarding machines. Casting machinery in operation. Workers at machines. Workers arrange proofs. Women read proof. Worker places proof plate on printing press. He removes wax mold. Worker places mold into solution. Worker rinses mold, removes copper shell. Worker pours molten lead into back of copper shell.
Various events captured by newsreel cameramen. City of Berkeley, California, burning, in 1923. Furniture on side of road. Some people scramble to save possessions in path of advancing fire. Others watch helplessly. Crowd mills around. View of burning buildings from roof top. Wrecked building. Burning multistory buildings in a city. One collapses. Arctic explorers' ship navigates between icebergs.
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