Slum plans gets underway in Youngstown Ohio during the Great Depression. Views of dilapidated houses and shacks. Execution of low cost housing plans. Demolition of the old tenement buildings by work crews and city officials at a ceremony. Citizens, white and African American, watch the demolition of the houses.
New Haven Railroad celebrates 50 years of electric locomotive operation. New Haven Railroad demonstrates its historic first 'electric locomotive' with a maximum speed of ten miles an hour against its latest streamlined rail train.
Aerial feats and fireworks herald 1939 World's Fair. Daring aerial stunts by the Slide-for-life D'Arcy girls. Huge crowd watches the stunts. Gigantic display of fireworks announces the 1939 World's Fair. The fireworks thrill a huge crowd of spectators.
A new streamlined "car of tomorrow" is demonstrated. New streamlined automobile drives on road in Reseda, California. The driver is seated with two women passengers in the modern, futuristic, concept car. They start driving with the car as a convertible, but the the automatic hard top is raised by the driver, while driving, without stopping or leaving his position at the steering wheel. Views of the "space age" car driving on a road.
Electric automobiles in the Senate Garage on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. The re-chargeable battery of the car is seen. The car is free of gasoline exhaust fumes. Congress-men check out the electric cars. Men drive the cars.
Overweight women weigh themselves on a scale. Overweight and heavy girls weighing over 200 pounds audition for an upcoming New York show about famous 'Beef Trust' girls of dancing group of Vaudeville company. The overweight women go through active dancing routines.
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