Various aquatic events at a fair in Canada. Harness racing event. A trotter during the race. A female swimmer smiles. Swimmers dive into water and swim. A motorboat underway in the water during a speedboat race. Smoke rises from burning obstacles on race course. Stunt riders and stunt drivers in motorcycles and cars drive through flaming obstacles. A motor bike rider launches over a flatbed truck using a jump ramp and loses control on landing, with the rider taking a spill. A car on the jump ramp stunt jumps over the truck and lands.
A large number of men and women shown returning to work in the United States during the Great Depression. Film aims to boost morale during Depression. A large number of workers enter an electrotype company factory in Cincinnati, Ohio. Men work on various machines as they manufacture advertising mats and cuts for use in newspapers and magazines. Mats and cuts being packed in wooden crates. Men at a furniture plant in Portland, Oregon. Men work on wooden planks as they make furniture for homes. Workers at an electrical and house heating appliances plant weld parts of appliances. Men construct oil burners at a plant in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. In La Salle, Illinois a large number of men and women workers enter a building with a sign "Big Ben Western Clock Company." Men and women manufacture clocks inside the plant.
Operation Desert Rock nuclear bomb test at Yucca Flats in Las Vegas, Nevada. A discarded walkie talkie lying on a sack on the ground. A dummy dressed like a man lying on the ground. Discarded vehicles, tanks and guns left around the area for testing the effects of nuclear blast. A mannequin in a foxhole. A dummy lying with two M1 rifles. A U.S. Marine walks into an underground trench. He prepares a dummy and then walks out again, all prior to test shot Dog during Operation Tumbler-Snapper of Desert Rock Exercises.
Operation Desert Rock at Yucca Flats in Las Vegas, Nevada. U.S. Marines in dungarees with field transport packs, rifles and other combat gear as they enter a tent. The marines in winter service " B" uniforms with packs, rifles and other equipment as they move through streets and are assigned tents. The marines walk after getting off buses. They carry rifles, BAR's ( Browning Automated Rifles) and carbines. Aeriel view of the camp area. M35 trucks with the marines in back as they pull water trailers. A sign reads ' Camp Desert Rock Sixth Army '. Men peel potato. The marines shave and wash their faces at an outdoor wash rack. An officer at a chart as he briefs the marines. Two marines at a table inside a tent. A marine comes out of the tent.
Life in Las Vegas, Nevada. A man and a woman walk down a street. People walk past stores, clubs, and casinos such as the Savoy during the day time. A parade comes down a street with the band members in highland outfits. Drum majorettes strut ahead. Scene changes to an intersection with traffic and cars passing by. Signs visible for Overland Hotel, Hotel Sal Sagey, Las Vegas Club, Monte Carlo. U.S. Marines in "B" uniform walking in front of the Swinging Door Saloon, and a man leads two white mules down the sidewalk behind them.
Nuclear device test on Nevada test range near Las Vegas, Nevada. Newsmen and U.S. Military officers at the test site. The newsmen gathered around an officer as they question him after the conduct of test. The officer briefs the press. An aircraft in flight.
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