Women Voters' League meeting. Guest speaker from Brazil talks to league meeting attendees. Narrator comments on the work of the women's suffrage movement in the United States that led to this point. Women in classes sponsored by the League of Women Voters. Male instructor at world globe. Female instructor demonstrates how to mark a ballot to vote in election. Woman at store newsstand buys a newspaper. Children play in a street. A group of boys fight and wrestle in the street.. View of a slum area and of abandoned, blighted property. View of old empty derelict home with eroded land in front of it somewhere in America. Union labor picket line demonstration during a strike and men fight and beat another man during a picket line demonstration. Grain truck with sign 'UNRRA' and "Mercy Wheat" sign on it. Mayor of New York Fiorello La Guardia with unidentified farmer during the mercy wheat campaign to aid Europe after World War 2. View of United Nations General assembly in meeting. Men and women meet at home in a citizen's living room. They vote by a show of hands. Woman sits at a desk and writes letter to elected representative and so does a man. Woman places letter in mail box. Woman hands letters to a Senator. Senator reads letters.
Super-dreadnought Battleship USS Arkansas (BB-33) passing under the Brooklyn Bridge on her way to join the fleet. She is seen, surrounded and escorted by tugboats, from overhead on the Brooklyn bridge. The USS Arkansas approaches the bridge and passes underneath.
Men work at ford car and truck assembly line. Workers fit engine into Ford Model T car chassis. Workers fit Model T car wheels and body onto its chassis. New Model T cars drive out of Ford Factory. Model T cars at a ford Sales and service store. Man drives a Model T car onto road. Farmer feeds chickens as his wife steps into Ford model T and drives away on errand. Man loads milk drums onto a Ford Model TT flatbed truck. Ford trucks drive on road. Ford trucks as mail vans for United States Postal Service. Fleet of model T cars driving away, one at a time from parking area of a company.
An African American woman convert is dunked in water of a river or creek by an African American preacher and three other church helpers during a Christian religious baptism ceremony. African American men and women sing gospel spiritual music and praise at bank of the river as several people in their community are baptized. One woman is moved in a way that she appears to be overcome with emotion and almost convulse following her baptism.
Wooden planks and blocks stacked on ground. Airmen saw lumbar with 'Dewalt' power saw. Airmen build base buildings. 819th CES dispensary building at RMK and 819th Civil Engineering Squadron Air Force base project area. Sign on the dispensary building reads ' Sick Call Hours-Routine Daily 0730-0930 1300-1400 Sunday and Holiday 1000 Emergencey Any time'. Military ambulance is parked near the dispensary building at RMK and 819th Civil Engineering Squadron base project. (Vietnam War period).
American Expeditionary Forces (32nd Division) march through the French town of Gievres during World War 1. They are led by a military brass band. The weather is rainy and the few local people watching carry umbrellas. Scene shifts to office of the station master at railroad station. (Sign reads: "Chef de Gare.") Several French civilians emerge from the office. One shakes hands with an American soldier. French officials and American soldiers walk together.
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