African American woman who is an agent from the Tuskegee Movable School demonstrates various household and service skills to other women. The teacher demonstrates a fire-less cooker as women gather around her. She also shows dressing of wounds and cleaning and washing a child, as the baby cries. She demonstrates how to make fly paper. Women and men clean and mend beds and furniture under their guidance. A woman learns shoe shine skills and practices cleaning and polishing shoes. (Note: The female extension agents shown likely include Rosa B. Jones, Uva Mae Hester, or N. Juanita Coleman)
African American men in a rural agricultural community of Alabama sow plants in the front yard under guidance from a Tuskegee Institute trained Movable School teacher. Women are trained to set tables. Men construct an improved storage house for sweet potatoes on a farm. The farmer's old storage house was formed by erecting wood panels alone. The new storage is formed of a frame firmly placed on ground and then keeping separate boxes in it. A man plays violin and another one dances, as the others watch them and clap.
Representative of United States Department of Agriculture and Extension Service of the State Agricultural College address the pupils of the Movable School (an agriculture education extension program of the Tuskegee Institute). Women play volleyball. Women participate in watermelon eating competition. In a competition laces of shoes of two men are tied and then they run. Competitors display their tied laces. The winners pose and smile. Men participate in a watermelon eating competition while their hands are behind their backs. A Ford truck called the "Knapp Agricultural Truck" used by the extension agents moves on a dirt road. Four people arrive in front of Collins' house (a farmer) in a car. Collins and his wife followed by other two persons holding a gramophone, comes out of the car. Collin and his family listen to music on gramophone in the front yard of the house. Top down view of gramophone phonograph record player as it plays a spinning phonograph record disc.
U.S. President Warren G. Harding arriving at a campsite, in his Packard Twin Six automobile with flag flying from the hood. He is followed by ladies in another car, with a Secret Service agent standing on the running board. A third car follows with Secret Service agents.The President steps from his car and joins the campers. View of people preparing picnic. Two men wearing chef's hats are cooking Harvey Firestone and President Harding sit reading newspapers, while Thomas Edison naps under a tree. Ford chops wood with an axe. Harvey Firestone asks to try his hand at it. Ford watches and makes comments. Ford, Edison, and Harding sit in camp chairs with newspapers as Harvey Firestone gestures behind them.
Native American Indians greet Marshal Ferdinand Foch of France during his visit in the United States. Scenes from the Crow Agency, Montana on the Crow Reservation: Officers gather outside a railroad train at a station. Native American tribesmen arrive in their traditional regalia. They wear Native American Indian head dresses. They present gifts of native American Indian regalia to Marshal Foch, and they pose for cameras. They are seen dancing on the street of a small town area. Foch joins in trying the native dancing.
Henry Ford's camping party in Maryland, United States. Men ride on horses through water. Horses on a path with trees on either side at a river edge. Horses walk across the river and drink water.