American composer, George Gershwin, performs solo passage on the piano (likely from Rhapsody in Blue). Gershwin at the piano accompanied by Paul Whiteman's orchestra, with Whiteman conducting. Paul Whiteman playing violin with several other violinists. A Harlem jazz band of African American musicians performing in a jazz club (early Harlem Renaissance period). Couples dancing the Charleston. Band members singing with megaphones as flappers and couples dance, including the Charleston dance.
Movie in which actors portray bootleggers receiving liquor from a schooner offshore. They load containers into a small boat and bring them ashore. 'Oil' written on the containers. They pour liquor from the containers into bottles, at their hideout during prohibition.
Actors portray purveyors and consumers of illegal liquor during prohibition in the United States. Sales and consumption in city establishments in the 1920s. Man knocks on a door. He is eyed from inside, slips money through slot and receives bottle of liquor. An innocent-looking package contains bottles of Gordon's gin. A man slips something through a window slot in a speakeasy door and is admitted. Sculpture of the Statue of Liberty at a restaurant where illegal alcohol is served. Men and women in the restaurant. People dance. Men pour liquor in glasses.
Movie portrayal of gangster activities during prohibition, in 1920s in the United States. Illicit liquor trade and gang warfare. Clandestine liquor manufacture. The illicit liquor is loaded onto a truck for transportation. Truck hijacking after truck carrying liquor smashes into a car blocking the road. Metal milk containers filled with liquor being machine gunned by a passing car. Two business establishments being bombed. Gangsters interrogating two men and threatening them while holding handguns. Faceless gangster in 1920s fashions (actor) fires revolver. A policeman with a gun firing at gangsters during a getaway.
A railroad industrial plant in the United States. The railroad car wheels. The workers inside an industrial plant. A railroad car goes back and comes forward.
Railroad station in the United States. A view from a moving railroad train of railroad tracks and bridge as a train crosses over the railroad bridge. The train passing a freight train going in the other direction. A small railroad station at Good Hope. The train passes a road and trucks. Intersection of railroad tracks. Train passes various stations. A small depot. The train passes Jeffersonville Station (possibly Jeffersonville Indiana ?), South Salem Station, South Charleston Station.