Annual opium profits of $15,000,000 in Sui Yuan, Mongolia. Mongolian Monarch and ruler of opium-rich area, General Ma Fuxiang, seated with his family. The multi-millionaire opium king celebrates birthday with his private army maintained to guard a large territory. Mongolian people in an opium field. The poppy seed of the opium flower. A man inspects a poppy flower. A massive wooden water wheel pulling water from a canal and transporting it to a high ramp which runs down to irrigate large poppy fields.
United States Navy junks warships in accord with London Treaty in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Cruiser USS St. Louis (C-20), World War transport veteran, being scrapped. Americans dismantle the ship. Large pipes being lowered with the help of a crane.
American scientists declare chimpanzee named Oscar nearest to man, in Lucerne, Switzerland. The chimpanee dressed in a tuxedo sits comfortably at a white table-cloth set table and eats food with a fork. He then pours tea in a cup, adds sugar, stirs and drinks all in his cup. He then proceeds to drink directly from the tea pitcher spout. Next, he lights his own cigar and smokes it.
A rocket car explodes during a trial in Harzgerode, Germany. German scientists place a rocket on a stand. The rocket launches by rolling on a track. The scientists experiment with a Rocket Speed Car. Onlookers watch the rocket launch on the speed car. The rocket blows up soon after its launch.
Workers at a farmyard cut wood with a tractor powered saw. A Fordson Tractor in a farmyard. Logs of wood in the farmyard. The workers cut the wood with a tractor powered saw.
Ordinary people, immigrants, and citizens of the United States in the early 1900s. An old woman, a man with a hat, a man with a cigar in his mouth. His son reads a book. A farmer with his wife. A woman in her traditional dress and a father with his daughter on a chair. Credits for the documentary.
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