Combination revolver and miniature movie camera invented by O.W. Atkins of Los Angeles. 1935 film opens showing a policeman holding a revolver (unloaded) pointed directly at the camera. A small camera is attached under the gun barrel. A side view of the revolver shows a cutaway of the movie camera attached underneath. The camera's mechanism moves the film. Next, a police officer is seen standing and pointing the gun-camera. Then in an enactment, a round camera view, ostensibly from the gun-camera, shows a man running toward the officer and being shot down by him. Next, a man in civilian clothes examines a strip of motion picture film from the gun-camera.
As a prank, a teenage boy maliciously convinces a younger boy to trigger a fire alarm. The younger boy reaches into a fire alarm box on a street corner and he triggers the alarm, but a manacle is affixed to his arm as he withdraws it, to mark him as the one who sounded the alarm. Fire fighters respond to the alarm. The manacle device was being employed to discourage false alarms.
Opening scene shows a man holding fast to the mast of a boat that contains a huge rotating two-bladed propeller instead of a sail. The propeller-rotor is geared to a drive shaft (unseen) turning the boat's underwater propeller (screw). Several men are in the boat as one sets the controls. Next, two men are seen in the boat as it speeds over the water with the big rotor turning rapidly.
Preparations for launch of the USS Hancock (CV-19) at Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, on January 24, 1944. . Shipyard riggers removing supports from under the ship's hull. Platform at bow is decorated with bunting. Scene shifts to Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York, and the launching of the USS Missouri (BB-63), on January 29, 1944. Crowd gathered around the bow as the Missouri goes down the ways. Another change of scene to the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company of Newport News, Virginia. Here the ways are emptied following the launch of the Light Cruiser, USS Hancock (CL-81) on June 19, 1943. The Hancock can be seen in the water. Tugs attend to the newly launched Cruiser.
Film opens showing slate reading: "Cosmos Pioneer, Soviets Orbit Man In Space" (referring to the sucessful space flight of Soviet cosmonaut, Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin who orbited the Earth in a Vostok spacecraft on 12 April 1961, during the "space race."). Next, U.S. President John F. Kennedy is seen at a podium commenting on this Soviet achievement and reassuring Americans that he does not consider this a sign of the weakening of the free world.
Views of an 18-wheel tractor trailer equipped with special springs and shock absorbers to provide a cushioned ride for fragile cargoes. A man demonstrates the cushioning mechanism with a small model. Men lift cartons from the trailer, upon arrival at destination. "Christmas tree ornaments" is printed on a carton. A man opens the carton and takes out delicate glass ornament in perfect condition. Men open a big carton and take out a glass automobile windshield . Another man opens the carton kept on the trailer and takes out Vita Boy pretzels container. He opens the container and shows that non of the pretzels has been broken. The truck trailer and other vehicles move through the streets.
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