A silent Harmon Foundation production from 1936 argues that art is not confined to museums but built into ordinary skillful work. The first reel opens with natural movement, a waterfall, a horse, divers, dancers, and the Taj Mahal, using these as raw material to analyze the elements of design. The second reel traces simplicity and modification in furniture and machinery, showing work by Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Robert Fulton, and industrial designer John Vassos alongside the evolving look of commercial products. The third turns to the unity of design and function through photographer Margaret Bourke-White and locomotive designer Otto Kuhler, comparing a 1906 Ford against a modern car and setting the China Clipper airplane next to an electric dishwasher and a modern bathtub. Earlier footage shows a woman cleaning, men painting a wall, a letter being typed, gardening, and pottery, all offered as evidence that anyone exercising judgment, even in picking out a hat, is working like an artist. Intertitles, not narration, carry the argument throughout.