This silent home-video travelog from the 1940s details the natural splendors of New York State as well as historical facts about the area. The eighteen minutes of footage comprises various clips from the sites and landmarks mentioned as well as texts that provide further details. The film includes some aerial clips of the New York City skyline however most of the film focuses on the scenes and sites of rural upstate New York.

Opening text featuring illustrated tomahawk about roots of the name The Empire State (0:08). Text discussing Henry Hudson’s trip on the “Half Moon” as part of the employ of the Dutch East India Company (0:23). Aerial views of the Hudson River (0:26). The Palisades cliffs (1:00). New York City skyline (1:27). Text about New York City’s significance during the Revolutionary War – battles on Long Island, Harlem heights, and White Plains (2:04). Sign from the Morristown National Historical Park commemorating George Washington’s headquarters in Morristown, New Jersey (2:10). Sign for the Bettin Oak (2:32). Gravestone of Captain Adam Bettin (2:35). Jockey Hollow Burying Ground (3:29). Officers’ Hut at the Morristown National Historical Park (3:48). Text discussing Washington Irving’s “Knickerbocker’s History of New York” (4:05). Irving’s grave stone in the churchyard of the Dutch Reformed Church in North Tarrytown (4:14). Text discussing Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” which made the area of Catskill Mountain famous (4:26). The area of Bear Mountain and the Catskills (4:50). Glenerie Falls in Esopus Creek, the Catskill Mountains (6:18). The Hudson River meeting the Adirondack Lake (6:58). Bear Mountain Bridge (7:14). Bear Mountain Inn – winter sports (7:18). New York State Capital building in Albany (8:55). Shots of Lake George (9:38). Text discussing the Native American tribes – the Algonquins and the Iroquois – who previously inhabited the area (10:37). Lake Champlain (11:15). Fort Ticonderoga – captured by Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys in 1775 (11:43). The Adirondack Mountains and Long Lake (12:33). Wild turkeys (14:13). Text discussing New York State during the Glacial Period (14:39). Buttermilk Falls (14:45). Taughannock Falls (15:13). Cherry Valley Turnpike (15:32). The picturesque lakes of the area – Skaneateles Lake and Lake Cazenovia (15:42). Otsego Lake – a place where James Fenimore Cooper spent most of his boyhood (17:14). Cooperstown, New York home of the Little League World Series and The Baseball Museum (17:46).