Quarrying operations done on Sacramento Hill at Bisbee in Arizona. View of open- cut mining at the hillside. An open-pit mining site at Ruth, Nevada. Copper mining at the site.
A view of the White House in Washington DC. U.S. President John F Kennedy with other members of the Congress. President Kennedy honors Bob Hope for providing entertainment to servicemen. The President makes a speech to thank Bob Hope for his service tours that made servicemen laugh. The President awards the special authorized gold medal to Bob Hope. Bob Hope, also known as ' The Clown Prince' receives the medal and thanks the President and Congress for the honor. He gives his speech and makes the gathering laugh with his jokes.
Narrated feature on the Korean War and the arrival and initial reactions of 24th Division Army troops during the first 50 days of war. Soldiers boarding landing craft and landing on beaches. Tending wounded soldiers. Advancing on foot. U.S. Air Force supply land landing and soldiers unloading boxes from it. Troops assembling with gear. Soldier holding box containing food rations. U.S. Soldiers in line crossing bridges and into towns as Korean citizens look on. South Korean soldiers marching through villages, looking weary from war. Villagers carrying belongings and leaving a town. U.S. soldiers march through an empty town with all shops and homes closed. U.S. soldiers digging gun placements for artillery and machine guns. Soldiers cooking. One stirs pot with knife. Battle scenes with U.S. soldiers firing artillery, rifles, machine guns. Wounded on stretchers.
Workers affix wheels to the car chassis on assembly line in the Ford Motor Company plant at Highland Park. Various workers adding their efforts on the assembly line. A better dressed foreman watches the workers and their progress. Rows of tires mounted on the wall in the background
Streetcar transports passengers in San Francisco, California. People walk on busy streets. Some cross the road. People in streetcars, buses and cars moving on busy streets. People walk past by the shops and stores at the roadside. Several views of the Transamerica Pyramid building (600 Montgomery St, San Francisco, CA 94111) as streetcar makes a stop on the street.
'Wheels of Fortune' depicts how the inter-development of the automobile and the public road system (1897-1927) caused the growth of suburban areas. View of two men as they ride a tandem bicycle for two on a city street. A horse carriage approaches a house. A woman gets off and climbs the steps to a house. Women on bicycles in the countryside wearing late 1800's early 1900's fashions. They stop to look at blossoming trees by the roadside. Next scene shows workers seated outside a factory. They eat lunch from packed dinner pails. View of high density tenements and slums of New York City with laundry hanging on clotheslines and the Brooklyn Bridge can be seen in the distance. View of railroad tracks running immediately beside closely packed tenement buildings of New York City residents.
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