Old versus modern (now vintage) telephone trucks in the United States. A truck trailer loaded with telephone poles driven through a wooded region. Two men on the truck. A few men unloading a telephone cable from a wheel cart. A truck with telephone line laying equipment in a wooded region. Men on the truck. A man beside the truck. Trees on both sides of the road. A modern updated telephone truck of the mid 1920's with mechanical devices fitted on to it be used in laying lines.
Bell System telephone building in the United States. Bell System telephone building with the Bell System emblem on the top right corner of the building. A drawing which shows activity inside the building. View of technicians at work inside the building at various devices. Several women seated in a row operating different telephone lines and switchboards. A few instructors beside the women switchboard operators.
Iraqi military units in Mosul, Iraq. Cavalry troops moving in a formation. Officers leading the cavalry units salute. Soldiers holding guns marching in formation. Cavalry maneuvers during a review by the representatives of the League of Nations on a visit to settle a dispute between Iraq and Turkey.
League of Nations representatives in Mosul, Iraq. A market place in Mosul. Several civilians moving about in front of buildings on a street. People crossing a river on a boat. A jeep on the boat. People at a harbor. The jeep moving on the harbor among people. A cluster of houses on a hill side. The representatives of the League of Nations, on their visit to settle a dispute between Iraq and Turkey, in front of a building. The houses on the hill side. A market place. Several civilians walking in the market. Boats moving in the river.
Admiral Richard E. Byrd and aviator Floyd Bennett, in Spitzbergen, Norway, being congratulated by other expedition members, after ostensibly making a round-trip flight to the North Pole and back, in their Fokker F.VII trimotor airplane named: " Josephine Ford."
A film titled: 'Through Oil Lands of Europe and Africa' on oil fields in several countries. A map locates Naples, Italy. Ships in a harbor. Mountains and buildings in the background. View of the oil field Villeja. The other oil field is Montechino. Another oil field Cento Pozzi. View of Salsomaggiore, an oil producing district. Houses in the district.