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.
Manufacturing of rifles in the United States during World War 1. Workers at machinery in a rifle manufacturing factory. They place parts of rifles on various equipment.
Crowd of workers outside a rifle factory. Trolleys pass each other on streets while driving through crowd of workers coming and going outside the armament factory.
Manufacture of Browning Machine Guns in the United States during World War 1. Men and women work inside a Browning Machine Gun factory. Women work at a table. Group of men assemble machine gun parts. Man adjusts the machine gun on a tripod. For testing, he loads and fires the machine gun.
American President Thomas Woodrow Wilson during Peace Celebrations in the United States at the end of World War I. A huge crowd on the streets. People waving the American flag. Troops in uniform march led by a band. Vehicles on a road. A banner reads 'The Devil says he will resign if the Kaiser is admitted'. President Wilson waves at the crowd from his car.