U.S. Army soldier training near Hammond Army Air Field in Hammond Louisiana during World War II. Soldiers train in ground defense tactics. They run across a field and drop into prone defensive firing positions. One soldier speaks to other soldiers and takes notes. Army tent in the background. The troops wear Antiaircraft Command shoulder patches on their uniforms.
Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train passes main Westinghouse Factory in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: The Words: "Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co Machine Works," are sculpted in the stone at the top of the building. Freight trains moving in the adjoining rail yard. Smoke belches from stacks at the plant.
A bakeshop is installed on U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Lexington (CV-2) in Tacoma, Washington. Bakers working inside the carrier. They place food on round baking plates and put them in an oven. A group of sailors eats food.
Newsreel entitled "Babe Gets a New Bat." Shows American baseball legend Babe Ruth playing golf at a St. Petersburg Florida golf course in 1930 with his wife, the former Claire Hodgson. The couple exit clubhouse with unidentified man; pose for camera on a breezy, sunny day; Claire holds up flowers for Babe to smell; Babe takes first shot while others in the background watch; the Ruths walk across golf course. (NOTE: St. Petersburg was where Ruth's team, the New York Yankees, held spring training most of the time between 1925 and 1960.)
Convention of Beauty Culturists ban short hair in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A group of women (still in flapper era from the 1920s) with short hair or bob hair display various hair styles. A barber trims hair of a chimpanzee named Bridget seated in a barber chair. A woman files her nails. The barber removes excess hair with a brush and shows a mirror to the chimpanzee.
American General Clarence Edwards in a meeting at Faneuil Hall in Boston, Massachusetts speaking out against alcohol prohibition and calling it futile. Exterior view of Faneuil Hall. General Edwards addresses the members during the meeting. A group of men at the "Death of Liberty Memorial" event stand next to a board outside the hall that reads 'In Memoriam of the Death of Liberty'. Last part of clip shows an outdoor beer garden in Germany. Women filling large steins of beer from taps. A German man takes a long drink from a stein of beer.
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