From a U.S. Navy training film "Special Conditions of Flight" on the working of airships. Special conditions of flight are explained. An airship in flight. High winds and snow create problems for flight. It also creates problems for ground handling of the airship. The airship lands. Ground crew rushes towards it. 'US Navy' written on the airship. Men at work. Special masts are erected on the ground to handle airships during bad flight conditions. A crew inside the airship. The airship in flight. An instrument panel. A rudder man at the controls of the airship. Guided by careful weather forecast, the airship's operations are conducted.
Film about the conditions at German concentration camps in Europe during World War II. Affidavits by George C. Stevens and E.R. Kellog that attest to authenticity of scenes in the film. A map of Europe depicts the location of Nazi concentration camps.
A U.S. Navy training film titled 'Early care of plastic surgery cases: wounds of hands' about the treatment of hand injuries of American soldiers during World War II. Hands of a conductor as he conducts an orchestra. Hands of various men as they work on machines, typewriter, reads braille, load shells in an artillery. Animation depicts the different parts of a human hand. Blood vessels in the hand.
Animation depicts various means of detecting sneak attack craft and protecting harbors. It illustrates ways of detecting a sneak torpedo through means like multi terrain loop and short pulse herald. A man in a control room speaks on a phone. A human torpedo underwater. A torpedo dives under the water. Detection device used to detect the presence of torpedoes in water. A technician works on the control panel of the detection device. A graph being printed. Short pulse herald technique being used to to detect torpedoes underwater. A radar detects the presence of torpedoes in sea. A torpedo underway on the surface and underwater. Effectiveness of torpedo nets. (World War II period).
As film begins, attendants riding atop elephants are seen from the rear as they parade along a the street of an American town. Front view of a circus wagon pulled by a team of horses and followed by numerous camels tethered behind it. A circus hand escorts a zebra and two other animals. Behind them are two automobiles. Next, local people are seen lined up to enter the fairgrounds where the circus tents are set up.
The first scene of the film shows a circus hand washing a dog outdoors in a metal wash tub. local people watch him. The next scene shows a worker hanging wash on lines set behind the circus tents where they are camping.
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