Distant view of the town with clouded skylines. Horse carts and natives wearing hats moving along street. Heavily crowded streets with native posing. Overhead view of town showing large church steeples and buildings.1920.
View of the city of Guadalajara in Mexico. Clouds seen over the mountains and the city. Crowd at the Railroad Station. Shops, Banks and Commercial Agencies in the streets. Pedestrians and cars in street. Homes in tree lined streets.
Tourists in Los Angles, California. Tourists on a sidewalk. Tourists board a sight seeing bus. Exteriors of an industrial plant. Smoke rises from a chimney. View of a village in Guadalajara, Mexico. Natives pose in a street. Skyline of the city with church steeples.
People view Benito Juarez Monument in Mexico. Building of Chamber of Deputies (where President Alvaro Ogregon took oath of office December 1, 1920). Old Jockey club and Ministry of Interior building. Car traffic with pedestrians on streets.
Film opens showing a picturesque stone church in Arizona. Camera pans up the church, to cross on the top. Man holds slate reading, “New Mexico, May 30th.” Then Pueblo buildings are shown (possibly in Pueblo of Isleta). Next, two women are seen walking away from the Palace of the Governors, in Albuquerque.
(Glimpse of misleading slate referring to Colorado River and Texas.) Next the Elephant Butte Dam on the Rio Grande River, near Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. It is seen from the spillway side, with large amounts of water being discharged. Several persons walk along a stone wall overlooking the spillways. Closeup of the water being discharged