Buildings and monuments in Plymouth, Massachusetts. A monument in the city. Pedestrians milling about. A statue of a woman. Sculptures and monuments. A car outside a building. A boy climbs up the stairs in a park. A Dutch colonial style house. Exteriors of a church. A sign outside a building reads 'Howland house'. A woman carrying an umbrella stands outside it.
Mansions and buildings in Newport, Rhode Island. A rocky shore and a driveway. Large buildings in a business district. Automobiles on a street. Pedestrians milling about on the street. A bunting draped house. Exteriors of a church and an inn. A streetcar moves on the road in front of the hotel or inn. A horse drawn carriage passes by and and numerous early model cars on a street. Exterior view outside the gate and inside the gate of "The Breakers" mansion owned by the wealthy Vanderbilt family. Traffic moving past he gated entrance to the mansion.
A ranch in the United states. A herd of cattle grazes on the ranch. Mountains in the background. Cowboys on horseback. The cowboys ride horses across the ranch.
The time period of the Second Battle of the Marne in France during World War 1. The country side of Cierges-sous-Montfaucon in France. A line of horses towing American artillery and caissons along a road, past a French village. As camera pans, the U.S. forces are seen to be passing through the village and then turning onto the road where they were seen earlier, in the foreground. View shifts to center of the village, where Army trucks carrying U.S. soldiers are driving through. A motorcar passes a villager riding in a horse-drawn wagon. The buildings in the village show battle damage. More canvas-covered army trucks moving on the village streets.
The Aisne-Marne Operation in France during World War 1. American Expeditionary Forces (AEC) 111th Infantry contingent bivouacked on side of a hill in Crezeney, France. Their horses graze in field below. Closeup of soldiers drinking directly from a small pond, and filling containers with water from it. Battle-damaged buildings in the background. Scene shifts to U.S. 119th Field Artillery, near Mount Saint Martin in Lorraine. A gun crew is seen behind an entrenched French heavy gun (Canon de 155mm Long Mle 1917 GPF). Views of the gun breech and open split tail carriage. Closeup of Gunner cranking a control wheel to elevate the gun barrel. He then makes some fine aiming adjustments. Camera focuses on a soldier standing near a large tree trunk and then pans over to the gunner adjusting aim of the 155mm gun. Scene shifts to another gun crew in some shrubbery, firing a French 75 field piece.
The Aisne-Marne Operation in France during World War I. Soldiers of the U.S. 103rd Engineer Battalion, together with French Army engineers, cut and sharpen logs on the bank of the River Marne, in France, during World War 1. A city (Chateau-Thierry?) is visible across the river in the background, where the river seems to take a sharp bend. Next, a French and an American soldier are seen wielding large mallets to drive the newly cut poles into the river embankment at the water's edge. French officers are supervising the work. A line is stretched outward from the river bank. Change of scene shows French and American engineers working on a pontoon bridge across a different river. Troops are walking on the opposite side. Final scenes show American soldiers of the 103rd Engineers standing on and near an elaborate log-reinforced bridge, complete with metal railing. Other soldiers are guiding a horse as it pulls a two-wheeled caisson across the bridge. The Engineers examine the bridge deck and side reinforcements as the horse and caisson move past.
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