A film titled 'Delegation tour of Kenya' shows a six member British Parliamentary delegation headed by Walter Eliot visiting Kenya. They visit a construction site where a member of the delegation helps the workers with the construction work. They watch local men and women dig a ditch for a guard post. Kenya police band plays sports organized by them. Officials visit a group of Mau Mau prisoners being encouraged to farm land in their prison area. Delegation visits Athi river camp where Walter Eliot addresses the Mau Mau prisoners. Two prisoners give a petition to the members of the delegation from, behind the barbed wires.
A dwarf couple walks down a busy sidewalk in Austin Texas with their baby in a carriage. Police control the scene for photographers and a local politician, possibly Mayor Tom Miller, greets the dwarf couple. He picks up their baby while family and spectators look on. Signs seen on store fronts include 'Dacy's Florsheim shoes' , 'Leons Shoes' , and 'Queen' A bus in the street displays 'Barton Springs' as its destination.
The baby girls of dwarf parents undergoes routine medical checkup in Austin Texas. A doctor and nurse weigh and examine the babies, as their parents watch. The dwarf family seen with extended family. A police man holds one of the baby girls outside the doctor's office.
Armed soldiers patrol in formation as officers inspect them outside the Mustaphsha Police Station in Jerusalem, Palestine. Israeli flag flies above building. Soldier stops a couple walking by to inspect their papers. Scene changes to crowds near a wrecked building after an attack, as people gather outside it. Injured persons being carried on stretchers. Possibly aftermath of Ben Yehuda Street bombings of February 1948.
A newsreel titled 'Martial law in Palestine' shows imposition of Martial law in Jerusalem, Palestine by British mandate authorities. Military tanks roll out on the streets and access to public buildings restricted by barbed wires. Police and soldiers check and search the people on the streets. Curfew imposed in the city.
A newsreel titled 'Hauptmann dies in electric chair for kidnap and murder', shows police officers outside the prison where Hauptmann has been executed in electric chair for the murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., son of aviator Charles Lindbergh, in Trenton, New Jersey. Electric chair and a picture of Hauptmann are seen. Journalists and reporters send news about the execution over phone and others type the story. A witness of the execution is being interviewed by a reporter.
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