1928 Democratic National Convention in Texas. Governor Alfred E. Smith tips his hat. Al Smith persuading Franklin to run for Governor of New York. Street scene in Albany, New York with Capitol in background. Newly elected Governor Franklin Roosevelt at his desk in office in Albany. Newly elected Governor Franklin Roosevelt, seated next to Mrs. Edith (Atschul) Lehman,as they converse, at the inaugural ball. Roosevelt's son-in-law, Curtis Dall; his daughter, Mrs. Curtis Bean Dall (Eleanor Anna E. Roosevelt) ; his wife, Eleanor; his mother, Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt; and Herbert H. Lehman, are standing behind them. Governor Roosevelt, riding in an open car with his mother, at the New York State Fair in Syracuse, New York. Governor Roosevelt lunching in an open pavilion at the Fair.
Billy Cannon of Louisiana State University gets the Heisman Trophy in New York. During the presentation ceremony U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon is seated at a podium. People seated in the hall include his parents and wife. Vice President Nixon speaks into a microphone and presents the trophy to America's top collegiate football player of the year. People applaud. Scenes recall one of the seasons most spectacular plays. Nixon shakes hand with Billy. Billy on the stage holding the trophy.
March of Dime Family of the Year in New York. Mayor of Boston John F Collins, his wife and four children named the March of Dimes Family of the Year. John F Collins receives the certificate seated in his wheelchair (narrator states that he and three of his children were stricken during the 1955 polio epidemic). He shakes hands with an official. John Collins shows the certificate and poses for a photograph with his family.
Workmen guide a truck carrying the top half of a wood frame house on a narrow path through woods. The truck in a large clearing in the woods. Next the bottom half of the house is seen with cables wrapped around it and a steel girder above. in the next scene, has been moved to the clearing and men stand atop it, while an 80 ton crane slowly raises the upper half and maneuvers it toward the lower half. The Crane belongs to the C.P. Ward Company, a New York State General Contractor Firm. The crane operator and workmen guide the upper half of the house into place.
The WPA (Works Progress Administration) project in New York. The Bureau of Criminal Investigation, New York State Police, in the Great Depression. Scientists and technicians work in a laboratory. A scientist using a microscope. A man shoots at a mannequin or dummy. A demonstration of a thief opening a safe. A sergeant and a police officer speak about the robbery. The officer speaks to a doctor about a report. The police sergeant goes to a house and interrogates a woman and a man. The man is taken to a police station for a couple of tests. Material from his fingernail is sent to the laboratory for examination. A scientist looks through a microscope. Stains on the thief's clothes checked in the laboratory. Views of vials and beakers and experiments underway in the laboratory. Newspaper headlines read 'Tom Brown found guilty'.
Retrospective view inside a former German submarine pen in France, as narrator mentions its former use in World War 2. View from outside the structure. An American Airlines Douglas DC-4 passenger plane flying over Manhattan Island, New York City, with Empire State Building visible among other skyscrapers below. Aerial view of New York harbor, with ocean-going ships docked at terminals below. Traffic moving in the harbor, including barges, tugboats, and ships, displaying various national flags.
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