Shot by the staff of Congressman Jim Wright, this footage captures the aftermath of a flood in Fort Worth, most likely from 1957. In May of that year, after weeks of torrential rains across Texas, more than 4,000 people were evacuated from unprotected lowlands along local creeks and the West Fork of the Trinity River in Fort Worth. In the film, residents combat severe floodwaters, salvaging property out of their homes and evacuating by boat to higher ground. Wright also appears to survey the damage and help in relief efforts.

This silent film is a compilation of a number of different scenes and appears to be news footage from an unknown news agency. In the first scene a man interviews a family in their kitchen, a small child eats while seated on the counter, and a group of young people are gathered next to what appears to be a police car or ambulance. In the second scene, men and women dressed in western or cowboy attire eat breakfast at an unknown event in Fort Worth. The story includes a close up of bacon frying, an unidentified man on horseback, a man in a police uniform being led into a jail in what appears to be a joke, a parade of men on horseback with a sign for Seymour's White Front Store in the background, and a close up of a man drinking a cup of coffee. In the third scene, the Moslah Shrine Chanters are seen at a train station and boarding a train. In the fourth, a man demonstrates the use of a piece of equipment for another man which appears to be a FCDA CD-V700 radiation survey meter or radiation detector. The fifth and final scene is preceded …

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a Dallas Air Force member taking leave to climb a mountain in Peru.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about an Italian race car being displayed in Fort Worth.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about George Fielding Eliot meeting with newsmen to promote a motion picture.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about an appearance by Fort Worth businessman Ben Jack Cage at a meeting of the company he formerly ran, until he was accused from embezzling from the firm. Cage says the charges against him are false and proposes a new financial strategy for the company.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about American Airlines flight attendants being flown in from Chicago to attend the new American Airlines college at Carter Field.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about an officer giving out a parking ticket.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about David Fred Hagler, freshly acquitted of murder, accusing someone of swindling him of money he put into a night club, while he was in prison.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Almita S. Robinson, the third African American ever to file for a place on the Fort Worth city council.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about The Big Swap between the Fort Worth Cats and the Chicago Cubs baseball teams.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Fort Worth Police looking for a man and woman who robbed the Pete Brewer Beer Distributing Company at gunpoint.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the north Texas area recovering from severe weather and a snow storm.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a Dallas building being evacuated after workers of a hat shop reported smelling gas.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Lake Arlington filling up with rain water and flooding a nearby road.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a tornado that hit the western part of Dallas.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about elections for U.S. Senate and Fort Worth City Council.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the ceiling collapsing in a classroom of Oakhurst elementary school in Fort Worth.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Fort Worth's Forest Park Zoo receiving 15 new rattlesnakes from Montague County.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Phi Delta Theta fraternity from TCU painting rooms and hallways in John Peter Smith hospital in Fort Worth.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Postal Service being curtailed for one day in Dallas and Fort Worth due to budget cutbacks.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Texas Senator-elect Ralph Yarborough stating that he plans to push for an income tax reduction when he gets to the senate.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about an anonymous telephone caller informing W. E. Youwell at a sewing machine company that he had stolen a sewing machine 19 years ago, and wishes to return it.