United States 35th Division troops in Besancon, France. A board over a road reads 'Commissioner De Police'. French civilians stand outside the police headquarters. A marquis carries wounded patriots on a stretcher. United States 35th Infantry Division troops with tanks and equipment move on the streets. French civilians wave at U.S. soldiers. (World War II period).
French Colonial officials in uniforms at ceremony where African tribal leaders are presented with awards. African natives carrying French Colonials in sedan chairs. French policeman stops disturbance among Africans at back of truck dispensing goods. African natives, in a line, digging with picks, in unison. French Colonial police arrest an African native. African native prisoners in a truck, with numbers hung around their necks.
About 25 cyclists gather loosely at starting point of race, on stone street with trolley tracks in it. They ride downhill on a concrete highway, escorted by motorcycle police and several automobiles. At the finish line in the city, spectators line both sides of the course, set along edge of a main street. A trolley car sits in center of street, and cars fill the opposite lane from the race. (The cars have no rear license plates.) The motorcycle police lead two finalists to the finish line, racing neck-to-neck. A trophy is presented to the winner.
Aftermath of Washington Riots in Washington D.C. following on death of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Fire fighters stand near the fire brigade truck. They spray water on a building on fire. Smoke rises from the building. DC Fire fighter walks on road. Board on a building reads 'Super Market'. Police car drives past the fire brigade. Firemen and police at intersection of F Street and 16th Street Northeast Washington DC 20002. Red light on the fire brigade. Burned debris of the building, still smoldering. United States soldiers of the 3rd Infantry arrive in army jeeps.
Three thousand men walk and demonstrate outside the New York Shipbuilding company plant during a labor strike in Camden, New Jersey. Next scene shows a different group of striking workers as a dispute between police officers and strikers marks labor difficulties at the Worsted Mill in Cleveland, as police on horseback push back group of striking workers. Unrest in streets and workers running in streets. View of smokestacks of industrial factory with smoke coming out. Men entering factory and standing in line to punch their time cards at the start of a a work shift. Men at work inside automobile plants, assembling cars in Detroit, after U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt settled the dispute between laborers and manufactures in the motor industry.
In South Bend, Indiana, views of a "Giant Car" Studebaker roadster built by a group of 60 craftsmen working under Studebaker's Paul Auman. This giant scale version 1931 model 80 Studebaker Four Season Roadster was used in the film "Wild Flowers." The Giant Car is 41 feet long with a wheel base of 325 inches. It is 13 1/2 feet high, 15 feet wide, and weighed 5 1/2 tons. Men drive up beside the giant President roadster in a normal vehicle. Some use a rope ladder to climb up into the giant car and others climb up the wheel fender and then onto the hood. A boy is shown trying unsuccessfully to climb up a giant wheel of the car (each wire wheel was 6 feet 8 inches in diameter and weighed 600 pounds). The boy's small pedal car is seen beside the Giant Car tire. A police officer in a motorcycle rides up beside the giant car. He places a board-style 'Police Ticket' on the running board and then climbs up onto the running board to present the ticket to a woman who is behind the wheel of the giant roadster.
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