Congregation of sharecropper farmers sings "What a friend we have in Jesus" in a church. Sharecroppers seated and listen to Preacher. They stand.
Soviet Russian Polikarpov I-16 (type5) fighter airplanes parked on a flight line. Engines are started and running on several of them. Next, the 12in triple gun turret of the Soviet Gangut class battleship, Parizhskaya Kommuna dominates a front view of the ship. This Dreadnought battleship (formerly the Sevastopol) was updated in 1928 and deployed in the Black Sea Fleet. Next, a huge open field is seen, filled with Soviet T-26 tanks raising dust as they move in formation. Scene shifts to an industrial steel plant, where a Soviet steel worker looks into a blast furnace peep hole to assess the state of the process. He phones others to tell them it is ready to be tapped. View of steel workers, in protective clothing, pulling the furnace plug. Molten steel flows from the furnace through open channels in the floor. Initially, slag floats atop the molten steel. View from an elevated platform in the steel plant, as the molten steel making its way along the floor of the plant. Workers shield their faces from the heat as they observe the flowing steel. Closeup of individual steel workers conversing. Molten steel cascading down to a lower level in the plant into containers (unseen). View shifts to outside the plant where several steel-carrying rail car crucibles comprise a railroad train that is moved away from the plant by a locomotive.
United States Navy's Salvage Operation of U.S. Submarine Squalus. A reeving wire seen stretched over water towards a small craft. A man on board pontoon on which 'YSP-31' is seen. Heaving line is thrown from pontoon. Four men aboard pontoon. Hoses and cable clamp or 'flower pots' being attached to pontoons. Pontoons are vented. Men aboard Falcon. Flower pot hoisted up and windlass raises pontoon. Blow dried pontoon lies along side Falcon. Submarine being lifted by stern, pontoons surfacing and bow of submarine in mud is shown by animated drawing
United States Navy's Salvage Operation of U.S. Submarine Squalus. USS Wandank with a cable attached to stern and USS Sculpin helps to furnish air. Disturbance in surface of water as first pontoon is blown dry. Stern pontoons seen bobbing on surface. Men seen working on top of pontoons. Bow of Squalus seen. Bow turns over onside and sinks back in water. Animated drawing shows stern of Squalus being lifted from bottom, bow is lifted, stern drops down and sinks back to bottom.
A film titled 'Dramatic Rescues from "Sub" Trapped on Bottom of Sea'. United States Ship Falcon seen. Buoy indicating the spot where the rescue chamber is over the sunken submarine. Diving bell (the rescue chamber) is lowered in water. Rescue chamber comes out of water. Survivors are brought aboard Falcon from the chamber.
United States Navy's Salvage Operation of U.S. Submarine Squalus. Disturbance on water. Air hoses seen on water surface. Men on whale boat. Pontoons seen on surface. Men aboard pontoons. Men leave pontoons and climb back on boats. Air hoes in water. USS Sagamore seen. Men seen working on Falcon. USS Wandank seen. An air hose bursts. 'Flower-pot' clamp with heavy cable passing through it. Man in water goes below surface to check equipment.
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