Map showing Mediterranean area in which U.S. Naval Detachment in Turkish waters operated in 1922. Sailors from the Detachment find time for rest and relaxation in Egypt. Several of the sailors ride camels, setting off to visit the Pyramids (Al Haram, Nazlet El-Semman, Al Giza Desert, Giza Governorate, Egypt) and the Great Sphinx of Giza (Al Giza Desert, Giza Governorate, Egypt), where they sightsee from camelback. Then the group rides very rapidly, some on camels and others on horses and donkeys. Sailors step from railroad car, at Luxor, after traveling 400 miles from Cairo. Sailors riding donkeys across the desert at a local village. The sailors ride through the Valley of Kings and the Avenue of the Sphinxes (Luxor City, Luxor, Luxor Governorate, Egypt), between Karnak and Luxor. Several sailors and their guides climb on some of the sphinxes. Statue of Ramesses the Great in the Temple of Luxor (Luxor City, Luxor, Luxor Governorate, Egypt). Sailors with guides walk avenue between towering remains of Luxor.
Merchant Marine officers who need to join their ship, leave dock on a Egyptian launch that takes them out to their ship, in Port Said, Egypt. (The launch flies an Egyptian flag design in use from 1922 through 1953.) When the officers arrive at their ship, deckhands lower a rope ladder and the officers climb aboard. View of steamship, SS Aeolia, underway. (This ship, launched as the Stuyvesant 1918, was acquired in 1950 and named, Aeolia, by Cia Naviera del Atlantica of Panama. It was managed for them by the Hellenic Mediterranean Lines, Piraeus.) Back of a sailor as boat he is on passes a statue of Ferdinand de Lesseps at the Port Said entrance to the Suez Canal.. Views waters around Port Said with palm trees along shore and commercial shipping traffic in the waters.
Wedding of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi and Princess Fawzia Fuad of Egypt at the Abdeen Palace (26VW+7VP El-Gomhoreya Square, Rahbet Abdin, Abdeen, Cairo Governorate, Egypt) in Cairo, Egypt. The Shah of Iran, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi and his bride, Dilawar Princess Fawzia of Egypt, arrive at their wedding reception in Cairo. King Farouk I of Egypt escorts his sister Princess Fawzia to her wedding. Notables in full regalia. The couple sits along with their guests for the wedding reception.
A film about Sir Ernest Shackleton's to Antarctica in 1921-1922 (shortly before Shackleton's death on January 5, 1922). An albatross on or near the island of South Georgia. Crew member, naturalist George Hubert Wilkins, walks around the bird in a circle, moving his hand toward the defensive bird. The bird takes off. An albatross seated on a rock.
Japanese Ambassador to the United States Hiroshi Saito calls on U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull In December 1934 to inform that Japan will denounce the Washington Naval Treaty on 1922 which limited the size of the Japanese fleet. A close up of the ambassador Saito. He exits the State, War, and Navy Building (later the Executive Office Building) and gets in a car. Next segment: A female pilot Helen Richey becomes the first woman to fly mail in the United States. Richey stands in front of an aircraft and shakes hand with an official. Richey in the cockpit and the aircraft takes off. From a December 14, 1959 newsreel recounting events 25 years earlier.
Japanese Ambassador to the United States Hiroshi Saito officially declares that Japan would no longer abide by the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922. Hiroshi Saito steps from his car and enters the Old Executive Office building (Pennsylvania Avenue and 17th Street, NW Washington, D.C., United States) in Washington DC. Exterior view of Executive Office building. He descends the steps of the building and enters his car.