Obussis on his flight from Brig (Brigue), Switzerland to Domodossola, Italy in 1913. Same route as the 1910 flight made by Jorge Chavez in which he was killed. Views of the flight from the ground in mountainous terrain. Onlookers watch the flight and seen walking with the pilot after the flight.
Shows President Woodrow Wilson addressing crowd at his inauguration speech on March 4,1913 in Washington DC, at the United States Capitol building. Next scene shows Woodrow Wilson dressed in all white, speaking from a podium at Independence Hall, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 4, 1914. Several other officials are seated in the background during his speech. Final scene shows President Wilson's youngest daughter, Eleanor Wilson McAdoo.
Brief view of the Great Wall of China near Beijing. A stone bridge in the imperial Forbidden City (4 Jingshan Front St, Dongcheng, Beijing, China, 100886) in Beijing. Graphics full screen show dates "1913" , "1924", "1925", "1927" , "1931" and "1936." Montage covers Chinese civil war, Soviet invasion, Kuomintang fight with British forces, dispute in Hankow, and Manchurian outbreak. A hand flips a page on a document titled “The Report of the Commission of Enquiry of the League of Nations to the Sino-Japanese Dispute 1912”. Highlighted section reads, “Banditry has always existed in China and the administration has never been able to suppress it thoroughly...."
A Serbian colonel receives dispatch from soldier on horseback in Serbia during the Second Balkan War. Soldiers install heliograph signal tower. Soldiers employ heliography to send and receive messages.
Ellen Louise Axson Wilson, steps into a flag-and bunting-decorated open car. President-elect, Woodrow Wilson follows, waving his top hat, as he sits beside her. Next, outgoing President, William Howard Taft and First lady, Helen Herron Taft, enter the car and sit in front of the Wilsons. Short montage of buildings and houses. A Federal building in Washington, DC. What appears to be a hotel, with arabic writing on it. A neighborhood street. A politician smoking a cigar. A huge cast cement flower pot seen on lawn of the house behind him.
The Anschluss (Annexation of Austria by Germany) in Linz, Austria, 1938. Air is filled with falling paper swastika confetti. Several German warplane aircraft are seen overhead. Young men march in street past the Philipp Hotel. View of Dreifaltigkeitssäule or the Holy Trinity Column (Dreifaltigkeitssäule, Hauptplatz, 4020 Linz, Austria) honoring plague victims. German officers converse with local citizen in town square. People gather at base of an obelisk topped with an eagle. Adolf Hitler stands in an open car and acknowledges cheering crowds as he enters the Adolf Hitler Platz (Hauptpl., 4020 Linz, Austria). Later, at night, Hitler stands on a balcony in the din, looking over the tumultuous activities.