Graduation Day for a class of recruits at the U.S. Naval Training Center, Chicago, Illinois. Captain William A. Moffett, USN, Commandant of the center is on a reviewing stand with his Lieutenant Commander, assistant. A French military officer and two French officials, are also present. Spectators are crowded around the reviewing stand. The new sailors are seen, from atop the administration building, lined up in formation behind the Center's flag pole from which a large American flag flies. Others are marching in review past the stand, which is now filled with high-ranking naval officers. The spectators around the reviewing stand can also be seen better. In next sequence, a huge Navy brass band marches toward the reviewing stand en masse and then executes to the rear march by columns, all while playing their instruments. They remain in place and play during the rest of the activities. More massed sailors march, followed by several contingents pulling French 75 artillery pieces. Spectators can be seen all around the parade grounds. Beginning as a huge single formation covering more than half the parade ground, sailors start marching in maneuvers that create patterns. Then a square formation of sailors marches along the field, enclosing a moving color guard, like a fortress. Closeup of new sailors marching with shouldered arms. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
People worldwide celebrate Armistice Day on 11 November 1918, then end of WWI. Crowds cheerfully wave with their hats in the streets. Some British flags seen. A truck with soldiers and American flags slowly drives in the middle of a crowded road. People cheerfully wave USA flags and hats to celebrate the November 11, 1918 Armistice, which ended fighting on land, sea and air in World War I between the Allies and Germany, the last remaining Central Power opponent.
Experiments with chlorine gas for influenza immunizations in United States. A World War I tank sprays gas in a field. View of American soldiers during 1917 to 1918 period of World War I, in a trench, wearing gas masks, and firing rifles at enemy positions. Post war tests on use of Chlorine gas to control the flu (emerging from 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic), inspired by low rate of influenza among United States soldiers exposed to chlorine gas during the war. Man enters a chlorine chamber at the Chemical Warfare Service. A chart on the wall showing results on symptoms after exposure in chlorine chamber. A woman in 1920s hat carrying a tissue is treated with chlorine gas. A testing apparatus on a table. Group of patients sit together in a chlorine chamber being exposed to the chlorine gas. A business man in a suit receives a portable chlorine gas treatment in his office as he is too busy to visit the chlorine chamber.
A U.S. arms manufacturing in World War 1. Hundreds of war production workers seen at shift change, waiting for their respective trolley cars passing on tracks between arms manufacturing plant's buildings. Women at work on metal working machines in an arms factory. Racks of Browning Automatic Rifles (Rifle, Caliber .30, Automatic, Browning, M1918) are being moved about. Assemblers are seen hand fitting parts for the Browning M1917 water cooled machine gun. One man makes final assembly adjustments to one of the machine guns set up on tripod in the factory. He enjoys firing the Browning M1917 machine gun. (Note:The M1917 and M1918 BAR were manufactured by numerous American arms makers. Colt, Remington, Marlin, Royal typewriter, Winchester. Most of the M1917 machine guns were manufactured by New England Westinghouse.)
Sign reads “State of Illinois Department of Labor Division of Unemployment Compensation Illinois State Employment Service Affiliated with United States Employment Service”. An Illinois State Employment Agency officer picks up a rotary dial phone to make calls. Employee making calls and inspecting files. A Hungarian refugee talking on phone and smiling. State Employment Agency Officer reads a file on his desk while talking on the phone. A worker lifts a cogwheel and puts it on a bench. Worker grinding teeth on a cogwheel. A Hungarian refugee cleaning a lathe at the Jones-Dabney Co. factory in Chicago. Hungarian refugee wears a white “Jones-Dabney Co.” cap while working. A Hungarian woman works as a draftsman. Draftsmen drawing at drafting tables. External view of a Chicago area Catholic school. Elementary students attend class at a Catholic school in Chicago. Hungarian refugees attend Catholic school. A priest teaches students reading. “My Captain Boy Savior” is written above the blackboard. Hungarian refugee girls listening in class. Hungarian girl reading a Catholic children’s book, “This is our Town: Faith and Freedom” (by M.A. Sister M. Marguerite, S.N.D.). “Boy Savior Our Guiding Star” written on the wall of the classroom. First grade students learn to write using crayons.
Large crowd cheers as an American football match in Big Ten between Ohio State University and Illinois University go on in United States. Ohio State defeats Illinois by 26-0.
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