A film by the Harmon Foundation titled "African American education for American living: Art in the African American schools" about academics and fine arts education in African American schools in the United States. A map of the United States depicts the proportion of African Americans to the total population as one out of every 10 persons. Next are a series of close-up views of various African American people of all ages. Well-dressed, college aged Black men and women are shown. An African American woman and man farmer are shown in an agricultural setting. The man holds a young girl. Close-up views of African American boy and girl as they smile in a school classroom. A map of the United States locates places of African American education in the country. Another map locates centers of African American education. Scene changes to a studio art class at Howard University in Washington DC. A class of young women and men paint a subject who is posing in the front of the room, wearing traditional African clothing. Professor Lois Mailou Jones instructs and advises a male student artist. Various portraits made by students depicting a man in African clothing. College students paint pottery. Male African American Students place ceramic pottery in a furnace as a male professor describes operation of the furnace. A young black woman paints a ceramic ware.
A film about New Orleans in Louisiana. A water front and the Mississippi River. View of Exchange Alley. A street car and automobile traffic in Royal Street. Cars and horse drawn wagons around Lee Circle on St. Charles Street. Pedestrians and a mule drawn wagon in Old French market. Exteriors of the old Cabildo as a car pulls up at its entrance.
A film about a school in Pittsford, Vermont, where citizens undertake a democratic effort to start a hot lunch program for students. Students of a variety of ages seated in a school classroom, as a teacher talks at the front of the room near the black board. Children go to an area of the room to pickup lunch bags that they brought from home. At lunch time, students eat lunch. A teacher, Mrs. Croft, and her husband who is the janitor also eat lunch. They think of providing hot lunch to the students. Mrs. Croft and her husband walk out of the school house as they discuss about getting a stove to provide hot lunch to students. They meet Mrs. Davis, a student's mother. They talk about the need of hot lunch. Mrs. Davis convinces other parents. Parents of the students attend a meeting at the school. Mrs. Croft asks for their help to provide hot lunch to the boys and girls at school. Mr. William, superintendent of the school, says that an increase in taxes can lead to a hot lunch.
Prototype C.30 (G-ACFI) Cierva wingless autogiro comes in for a landing at Hanworth Air Park (London Air Park), England. It touches down momentarily and rises again. A man is seen standing next to designated landing are marked by a large white ring and a smoke flare. The autogiro approaches the spot, and is pursued by the man on the ground who runs and fastens a satchel to a line from the autogiro. Flyer in the front seat of the autogiro reels the satchel into his cockpit. Pilot of the autogiro shuts down his forward engine and proceeds to execute an autorotation landing.
Panning view of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, DC. Numerous cars are parked but a fairly open space is preserved near the Capitol building. A Kellett KD-1 autogiro lands in the open space. Pilot Lou Leavitt seen in the rear cockpit (front cockpit empty).The autogiro takes off. A chart contrasts Federal expenditures of 485 million dollars for airplane development with only 485 thousand dollars for autogiro development, with result that 96 companies are engaged in airplane work but only 2 in autogiro work. The chart depicts other relative data impacting negatively on autogiro development.
10th Republic Day Celebration in Berlin,Germany. Aerial view of the city. Large crowd of civilians gathered in front of the Reichstag building. President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg inspects troops.
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