A doll contest in Long Beach, California. A line of little girls carrying their dolls in prams with numbers. One of the prams has a design inspired by the Red Cross and carries a doll with the United States flag. Girls pushing their prams to parade their dolls. A girl pushes her Red Cross-inspired pram with a patriotic boy doll. Two little girls cradle their dolls. A girl snuggles her doll. A child leads a small dog with a carriage carrying a doll attached to it. A boy carries his doll from its leg.
German glider pilots with sailplanes compete in the Rhön gliding contest at the Wasserkuppe Hill in Germany. Baron Von Freyberg is seen settling himself at the controls of a Harth-Messerschmitt glider. Next, the glider is launched and those pushing it off duck for cover as it ascends. It flies well but fairly low above the ground. Another scene shows the glider with men holding each wing tip as they run to launch it. But the glider doesn't develop enough speed and lift, to make it off the ground. Views of another glider, the Besenstiel (Broomstick), built by Schoolmaster Ferdinand Schulz, using bed sheets and broomsticks.The camera pans around the glider showing details of its construction. (It was judged too fragile to be allowed in the competition.) Another glider is launched and appears to fly quite successfully. Teams of participants are seen pulling gliders back up the hill after flights.
Woodchoppers pit their skills in Skytop, Pennsylvania. Woodchoppers on raised beams. They chop wood with axes. A large crowd of spectators at the contest. Men, women and children watch the event. Woodchoppers sit on thick wooden logs and chop them away. The chips strewn all over. Men in boots on the logs. Woodchoppers with axes seated on a log. A man smiles. A woodchopper saws wood with a buck-saw. People sit around and watch. A woman saws a log. She poses with her bucksaw.
African American children compete during a water-melon eating contest in Oakland, California. Children eat slices of melons placed on benches. They race forward to the benches. A bench tips and some fruit falls the ground. Close up of a young child eating a slice of watermelon as fast as he can.
International hairdressing contest in Portugal. Women having their hair done in front of mirrors by hairdressers. Judges look at women with different hair style after hairdos. Women with various different hairstyles.
Sky divers compete at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Sky divers vie for places on the team representing the United States in World Championship contest going to be held in Bulgaria. Precision and stunt events take place. The sky divers aboard an aircraft. Amateur sky divers descend by parachutes from the airplane. Several men stand on the ground as the parachute jumpers descend. A woman medical officer descends.