A curtis JN-4 "Jenny" airplane lands on a field in the United States, during World War 1. It taxis in after landing, and parks beside a hangar designated 11B. "The Air Service Needs You" is painted on the airplane fuselage . The pilot climbs out of the cockpit and walks towards the camera, taking off his flight gear.
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.
Manufacture of machine guns in the United States as part of the World War 1 effort. Rifle bars, stocks and trigger guards are made. Number of unfinished rifles placed next to a machinery. Bayonets and browning machine gun barrels being forged. Parts of the Browning gun are cut, trimmed, filed and assembled.
Manufacture of rifles in the United States for World War 1. Rifle bars, stocks and trigger guards are made. Bayonets and browning machine gun barrels are forged. Parts of the browning gun are cut, trimmed, filed and assembled. Workers inside the factory as they work on machinery.
Manufacture and testing of guns in the United States during World War 1. Rifle bars, stocks and trigger guards being made. Workers place rifle on a stand in the factory. Group of people look through periscope of the rifle for its accuracy. They fire from a window at targets placed outside on the ground, to test the rifles.
Manufacturing of Army rifles in the United States during World War 1. Workers at a small arms plant in the U.S. examine wooden rifle stocks during World War 1. Men wheeling numerous dollies of rifle stocks to another part of the factory. Fully assembled rifles (appear to be either 1914 or M1917),loaded on a tray are lowered by African American workers using a manual pulley hoist to place them into a bath of hot cosmoline grease (for preservation). Then they are raised and moved to above a draining table, where they are removed and placed on a dolly. Men clean up the drippings. Next scene shows an African American worker placing the new rifles in wooden boxes for shipment. Closeup of an open wooden box of rifles ready for closing and shipping. Workers stacking 10 wooden shipping boxes of rifles in a hand dolly and moving it to shipping dock.
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