Film about the city and industry of Chicago in Illinois, United States. Automobile and pedestrian traffic on the roads and streets in Chicago. Skyscrapers and the Wrigley Building on Michigan Avenue. Exterior of the Merchandise Mart building. Interiors of a factory in Merchandise Mart. Hot metal being lifted from a furnace. Steel manufacturing plant scenes. Material being heated in a furnace. Men work to assemble parts of a machine in a factory. Women work assembling new typewriters in a factory. Men paint and prepare a Pullman Palace Car railroad car at the Calumet Works near Lake Calumet - the railroad train car's main manufacturing plan. It is marked as being for the New York Central railroad. The assembly line of diesel railroad locomotive trains in La Grange. A newly manufactured locomotive pulling train cars as it exits the factory area.
Film about the state of Illinois in the United States. Students walk on the college campus of the University of Illinois. People enter a building of the university. A student looks through a dumpy level on a transit scale. An observatory in the background. Another student stands holding a scale. Students walk, carrying another dumpy level, on tripod in the background.
Film about the state of Illinois in the United States. A view of a coal mining factory. A Illinois Central railroad coal car loaded with coal. Closeup of a group of dirty-face coal miners standing and smiling. Men on coal cars loaded with coal for transportation. A farmer drives a harvester on field. A man drives a combine harvester through field. Soybean field in the foreground. A train pulls past the soybean field. A hand of a person on the soybean plant. The soybeans on a conveyor belt. A corn picker driven through the field. The corn being piled up for transportation.
Film about the state of Illinois in the United States. People enter a building for the Illinois State Fair in Springfield, Illinois. People in the fair. Amusement rides, swings and people in a bus. Farmers walk with cattle. Children participate in 4-H club livestock competitions. A farmer near his blue ribbon winning cow. A girl near her sheep who won a blue ribbon. Children on a miniature train. Harness racing at a horse racing track in Illinois. Sports cars driven during an automobile race on a dirt track. Interior view of upper deck in double decker passenger train car with passengers enjoying the view through windows and a conductor punching tickets; Abraham Lincoln birth home cabin; View of statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Illinois State Capitol building. The SS City of Grand Rapids ferry ship of the Cleveland & Buffalo Steamship Company passing by on Lake Michigan with Wrigley Building in background.
The Prime Minister and Head of the Interim Government of India Jawaharlal Nehru and riots in India. Indian Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru arrives with other officials. Bombed and damaged buildings. A policeman fires rifle. Dead bodies on the road. The dead body of a child. People carry belongings and leave homes. People in a protest rally. The Premier of the State Council of China Zhou Enlai arrives in a aircraft and is greeted by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. He reviews the honor guard.
The U.S. Navy flying boat Caroline Mars carry 218 passengers from San Diego to Alameda and sets a new record. The U.S. Navy officers and sailors stand at a dock. They wear life jackets and walk towards the flying boat. The sailors and passengers aboard a U.S. Navy flying boat Caroline Mars. Insignia of the United States on the Caroline Mars. A signal officer gives a signal. The flying boat taxis in water and takes off. Caroline Mars in flight from San Diego to Alameda.