Russian revolutionary leader Lenin with his pet cat in his hands. 1922.
Russia after the Civil War fought between the White Guards and the Bolsheviks. A man stands outside a shop in market place of a Russian city. Horse drawn carts transport material to the shops. People stand and talk on streets and outside shops. Horses and carts on the side of roads near the shops. Vladimir Lenin makes signature notes while talking to other people. A man watches as a woman opens the doors of her shop.
The trial of "Left SR" social revolutionists from Social Revolutionist Party in Moscow, Russia. A crowded street outside a court in Moscow. People enter the court room for the Moscow Trial. Pistols and other equipment lying over legal documents on a desk. Accused men and women arrive. Women write in the documents. The prosecuting attorney is seen and he speaks.
A film about Sir Ernest Shackleton's to Antarctica in 1921-1922 (shortly before Shackleton's death on January 5, 1922). An albatross on or near the island of South Georgia. Crew member, naturalist George Hubert Wilkins, walks around the bird in a circle, moving his hand toward the defensive bird. The bird takes off. An albatross seated on a rock.
Japanese Ambassador to the United States Hiroshi Saito calls on U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull In December 1934 to inform that Japan will denounce the Washington Naval Treaty on 1922 which limited the size of the Japanese fleet. A close up of the ambassador Saito. He exits the State, War, and Navy Building (later the Executive Office Building) and gets in a car. Next segment: A female pilot Helen Richey becomes the first woman to fly mail in the United States. Richey stands in front of an aircraft and shakes hand with an official. Richey in the cockpit and the aircraft takes off. From a December 14, 1959 newsreel recounting events 25 years earlier.
Japanese Ambassador to the United States Hiroshi Saito officially declares that Japan would no longer abide by the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922. Hiroshi Saito steps from his car and enters the Old Executive Office building (Pennsylvania Avenue and 17th Street, NW Washington, D.C., United States) in Washington DC. Exterior view of Executive Office building. He descends the steps of the building and enters his car.