Hand saw manufacturing operations at the Henry Disston & Sons factory in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A worker manipulates a saw handle against a running router to create the wheat pattern in the wood. Another man is seen placing saw handles into a gang boring machine to bore and flat countersink finish holes in them, for fastening to the saw blade. The machine has multiple heads set for both left and right side boring. After one side is done, the operator flips the handle over to complete the other side. An operator at a machine cutting teeth into a saw blade blank. Another machine operator running saw blanks through a set of embossing rollers.
Manufacture of ordnance material in the United States during World War 1. Rifle bars, stocks and trigger guards are made. Workers work on machinery inside the factory. Trigger guards being made on machinery. Gun barrels placed on machinery. Workers look through a periscope.
U.S. Army soldiers arrive at a training encampment by train. Soldiers in training each firing a pistol at targets on an open field. Groups of soldiers prone in a line firing rifles, then running across a field. The troops mount a wall obstacle. Again they lie prone and fire across a field. The troops are in training for mission to Veracruz Mexico following the Tampico Affair.
United States Army artillerymen arrive with a caisson and field piece, at a training observation post in a field at Fort Crook, Nebraska. They separate the gun from the caisson and begin to set it up. The next scene shows an artillery unit with teams of horses pulling caissons and field pieces. Scene reverts back to artillery observation post, where soldiers erect an observation ladder from their caisson,stabilized by guy wires. A soldier climbs it to observe from the top, with binoculars. More artillery is seen being pulled across the training fields. A horseman gallops across the field past the camera. He meets and officer standing by a flag and salutes after receiving an order, and gallops off.
U.S. Army cavalry troops on horseback and horse drawn carriages, during training exercises prior to participation in the Punitive Expedition in Mexico under leadership of General Funston. Troops fire rifles from bushes during exercises.
Officials in the United States. Two officials in hats converse with each other. Group of officials pose for a photograph.
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