Opening scene shows U.S. Army Brigadier General Charles H. Bonesteel, Commander of the VI Corps Area, seated in a new jeep with Ford Motor Company President, Edsel Ford, at the wheel in a Ford Motor Company factory in during World War 2. This jeep is the first in an order for 1500 jeeps being delivered by Ford to the U.S. Army. Ford Company executives in business suits, covered by white lab coats are in the background, along with regular factory workers. One executive signals for the jeep to be moved ahead, out of the factory. Next, the film shows jeeps being demonstrated at the Ford Motor testing ground. Army officers and Ford Company executives line a ridge overlooking the test ground as drivers take several jeeps through their paces in demanding circumstances. Scene shifts to Fort Benning, Georgia, where jeeps of the Army's 4th Division are seen driving along a dirt road towing small field artillery pieces. Several are also seen driving (without artillery pieces) through dense woods and other obstacles at the Army base.
Court trials in the United States after World War I. Sketches: The Scopes trial. A science teacher John Thomas Scope. Picture of the evolution of man. Defense attorney, Clarence Seward Darrow supports the theory of evolution. Prosecutor, William Jennings Bryan bases his position on the Bible. A person with a poster. People gathered outside the court room for the trial. Sketches: the court room session. People protesting. In separate matter. Accused anarchists, Ferdinando Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two Italian Americans, on trial in Massachusetts for the 1920 armed robbery and murder of two pay-clerks. People protest against the trial. Policemen bring in the accused, to be tried. A huge crowd gathered to protest against the trial.
Cowboys perform during a frontier days rodeo meet in Cheyenne, Wyoming. A wild horse race at Fort Francis E. Warren, a U.S. Army base. The rodeo cowboys perform bronco busting and bulldogging in a fenced area during the frontier days meet. Cowboy in dungarees wrestles a steer to the ground. Spectators cheer.
A dust storm in Dalhart, Texas during Dust Bowl period. A nest sticks to a fence due to wind pressure. View of the base of a tower. A house in the background. A paper sticks to a fence due to the wind pressure. A damaged house. A man walks towards a damaged house. He enters the house.
A study of African American artists in sculpture, photography, painting, sketching, etching, writing and on antique in the United States during the "Harlem Renaissance." A view of buildings in New York City. Painter Palmer Hayden paints at the side of a river. A woman comes and watches. A train arrives. Artist Benjamin Spurgeon Kitchin works at the base of the train, earning money during the Great Depression. He opens a flap and works on a machine. A man drives a car. A man cleans a floor with a broom. A woman stitches a cloth. A person works on a typewriter machine. A woman operates a telephone switchboard. Close view of hands on switchboard equipment. A man picks up papers from a table and arranges them. He staples the papers and keeps them on a shelf. View of stapler. A man cleans some articles. A man in free time draws paintings and makes sculptures.
A documentary on The United Nations Conference on International Organization that continued from April 25, 1945 to June 26, 1945 in San Francisco. A plane in flight and ships are seen in San Francisco Bay. 1940s San Francisco city views: Aerial views of Golden Gate Bridge. People on streets on San Francisco, with streetcars, buildings, pedestrians, and mid 1940's cars seen. Aircraft parked at a USAF Base as delegates from 50 countries arrive. Delegates like Jan Christian Smuts from South Africa, Vyacheslav Molotov from Russia, U.S. secretary of State Edward Stettinius arrive in San Francisco. Delegates register for the conference. United States flag on a building. Interior of the War Memorial Opera House serving as the initial meeting hall. Delegates seated. U.S. President Harry S. Truman addressing the general assembly remotely, as delegates listen through radio speakers in the opera house. Narrator recalls words of Franklin Roosevelt and recorded audio of Roosevelt is heard where he urges continuation of the work first begun by the defunct League of Nations. View of various working committees and smaller groups of the organization meeting during the Spring of 1945. Representatives debate and review concepts initiated at the Dumbarton Oaks conference in Washington DC in 1944 during World War II. Delegates addressing those assembled and signing documents that create the United Nations.
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