Pilot stands near airplane and demonstrates counter-rotating propellers. Aircraft seen in flight.
Historic early aviation and flight, and man's quest for flight: A man tries to glide with ornithopter type wings attached to his arms and back. He runs and is also helped by several men who pull on a rope attached to him. He falls and his aircraft wings collapse.
Jersey Ringel, aerial wing-walker and acrobat, stands on wing of a Curtis JN-4 airplane and then jumps to the wing of another, while inflight. He swings from a ring under the wing of the second JN-4. His name: "Jersey" Ringel, is displayed on fuselage of the airplane.
Replica of an early airplane, reminiscent of the Wright Brothers era, is pushed across the tarmac at an airport in the United States. Several newer model aircraft are parked at edge of the ramp.
Bombing tests by U.S. Army Air Service General Billy Mitchell in the United States. General Mitchell stands with other officers. A chemical bomb explodes on the forward deck of USS Alabama. An aircraft in flight overhead. It drops bomb on the ship. Smoke rises as the ship explodes. Several bombs being dropped on USS Alabama. Heavy smoke columns rise as the ship explodes. High explosive bombs being dropped. Formation of mushroom clouds after the explosions.
A torchlight parade protesting war. Marchers are principally women. At start of film, a group of about 10 Women, all dressed in white, hold white streamers descending from a dove-like symbol of peace. The parade is conducted along a city street. Smoke rises all around from torches or bonfires beside the line of march. Some women carry a large banner reading: "Thou Shalt Not Kill." Other signs held by marchers appeal to Chemists and others who create tools of war, such as poison gas, to cease and desist such activities One sign reads: "Scientists Use Your Genius for Peace, Not War." A Bahai banner is carried by some marchers. Police officers monitor the march and marchers. Several women drape themselves in American flags. They are accompanied by a Civil War Union Army officer, carrying a sword. Many in the parade carry the same or similar signs and banners. Some are more legible when seen several times. Examples include: "Chemists, Help World Peace, Refuse to Make Poison Gas" and "Exploitation Leads to War, Abolish it." Other notable signs and slogans include: "Mothers pay the Heaviest War Tax;" "War is Not Inevitable. Human Nature does change;" "Immediate Universal Complete Disarmament;" and "We stand with Gandhi for World Peace." The last new one seen reads: " We will not give our children for another war."