Suburban development project of homes under construction. Heap of bricks and building materials. Team of roofers at work on a house. Man moves bricks with wheelbarrow. Cars of construction workers parked by houses under construction, as seen through wooden frame of one of the Incomplete modern suburban houses.
German zeppelin Hindenburg (D-LZ129) flies over New York City. Manhattan skyscraper buildings seen below airship. Hindenburg hovers over destination, Lakehurst., New Jersey. Passengers watch from Hindenburg windows. Hindenburg crashes in flames and settles to earth. Men run towards the burning zeppelin to assist survivors. Smoke rises. Men stand around remains of the zeppelin.
Film starts showing President Franklin D. Roosevelt at a polling place during the 1938 U.S. National Elections. Next, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, the President's wife is also seen there with him. Glimpse of an unidentified politician. Another unidentified politician shaking hands with people in a crowd. New York Democratic Governor, Herbert H. Lehman, stands with his wife and family on the occasion of his re-election. Brief closeup of Governor Lehman himself. Scene shifts to the Republican candidate for New York Governor, New York County District Attorney (Manhattan), Thomas E. Dewey, who is being interviewed. (He lost the election to Governor Lehman, but only by 1.4%.) Closeup of Thomas Dewey, smiling. Two unidentified men are seen sitting by a radio. One is recording election results on a tally sheet.
Kuda Bux walks barefoot through pit of fire, New York. Mohammedan from India, Kuda Bux thrills the onlookers at Rockefeller Center by walking barefoot through a pit of fire. Kuda Bux poses.
Planes in flight. Paratroopers on board the planes prepare to land in order to give a demonstration to West Point cadets at Stewart field, New York. They jump from the plane and open their parachutes. They descend and land on the ground.
Aftermath of collision between the Italian luxury liner SS Andrea Doria and Swedish American Line MS Stockholm (previously the MV Astoria) off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts. The two ocean liners upturned at the sea and the wreckage floats in water. Victims of the cruise ships on board another ship after rescue. Collision killed nearly 50 people.
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