A U.S. military convoy of jeeps on a road. Soldiers seated in the jeeps. The soldiers are flagged down by Military Police (MP) in a jeep. The two jeeps stop at a barricade. They approach a shack coffee shop called Uncle Dan's Doughnuts run by the MPs. Sign boards reads 'Stag Night Tonight' and 'Unescorted ladies not Permitted'. MPs and a soldier stand and drink coffee and eat doughnuts outside the shack. The soldiers talk. Sign boards read 'Mud and straw houses for sale'. The soldier reads signs about 'Turkey Sandwiches', 'Formal Dance' and 'Military Abbreviations' put up at the coffee shop. The U.S. Army soldiers get into their jeep and leave.
Demolition of the Reichstag building dome in Tiergarten, Berlin, still in it's bombed out state following World War 2. Incendiaries start to burn and dome falls to ground. Writing on main entrance to the Reichstag. People look at the rubble of the tower laying on the crumbled floor of the Reichstag. The sky through the hole in the ceiling. People stand along sides of streets, some seated on their bicycles. Brandenburg Gate in the background. German policemen look at the Reichstag dome through binoculars. A U.S. Air Force airman standing with them. View of the dome from between the head of the airman and German officer. American airman looks through binoculars. The incendiaries start to burn. Flames as the dome catches fire during demolition process.
A town square in Mexico. 'Inspection De Policia' written on top of a gate entrance. Police officials on horseback come out of the gate. View of the municipal court building with signage indicating it is for "Distrito Bravos", which makes the location likely Guadalupe Mexico or possibly Juarez Mexico. View of 'Carcel Publica' jail building between two court buildings. Vendors selling goods on street.
A crowd of rioters moves on a street in front of a furrier industry labor office. People from windows watch the rioters. Police catch a few rioters and lay them on ground. An injured man is assisted into a waiting ambulance. A man on stretcher is moved to the hospital ambulance vehicle. The vehicle moves on road.
Fallen houses and wreckage at the site due to landslide in Lyons. Policemen and firemen involved in rescue operations. Men tie up a wounded person on a stretcher and pass him down. Men pulling down a broken roof.
Arthur Woods, former New York Police Commissioner raises his hat and smiles in Washington DC, during his role as chairman of President Herbert Hoover's Committee on Employment. Scenes of construction projects underway providing work during the Great Depression: A huge construction site with work in progress building many high rise buildings. A large dam being built. A large crane moving material to a bridge from ground. Workers engaged in welding work. Sparks at the welding site. A large crane moving iron. Workers building giant ships in shipyards. Workers walk on docks beside a ship under construction in a shipyard.
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