Amelita Galli Curci and famous Italian singers auction apples to aid war stricken countrymen in Chicago, Illinois during World War I. A woman and a man auction apples. People bid for the apples.
Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) Eagle Hut for American servicemen during World War 1. The YMCA hut is formally opened at Bryant Park in New York City. Ex Ambassador to Germany, James Gerard, the guest of honor, addresses the gathering. Miss Ethel Barrymore donates the flag pole and raises the first flag which was presented by Charles Everson of Lafayette Post G.A.R. Soldiers surround the flag pole as Ethel Barrymore comes in between the crowd. She hoists the flag and stands as the French Military band finishes playing the Star Spangled Banner.
U.S. Army brass band leads American troops marching along a wide dirt road with high berms on either side. They raise dust as they march. The troops march with shouldered arms. Scene shifts to what might be the entrance of an Army Base, somewhere in the arid Western United States. An open wooden structure (possibly a guard post) is seen wrapped with American flags. Soldiers and some civilians are gathered near a Welcome Banner stretched across the road. The troops march under the Welcome Banner. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Women greet soldiers. A soldier greets his two daughters and wife. He lifts his girls up and kisses his wife. The scene is an Army camp with tents behind the soldier and his family. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
A United States troop transport ship at sea during the first World War. U.S. Army troops (aka dough boys) aboard the ship. U.S. Army soldiers march in formation in a large city square area in Europe (likely France) holding rifles during World War 1. United States troop ships being loaded with American soldiers for World War I, and scenes of U.S. troops in WWI marching in the streets of a European city. Scenes from earlier during combat in the war. World War I allied soldiers on battle front in France. Soldiers run to a bomb crater area for shelter when crossing no man's land. Soldiers fire artillery. Artillery shells explode. Allied soldiers running across a battlefield as tanks run beside them toward the German enemy. People wave U.S. flags as First World War war ends with Armistice. Large crowd gathers in New York celebrating WWI armistice. Newspaper held high by a man with headline "Germany Surrenders". Views in the United States of hard times in American towns after World War I ended and war industries were no longer providing money. View of forests. Girl draws water from a well. Man and a boy operate a grindstone sharpening a saw. Farmers plowing fields with horse drawn plows during great depression era. People do agricultural works at fields. White farmer tilling a field. African American farmers working in fields and harvesting hay with help of a horse. African American farmers at cotton office. Cattle in field. Man and a woman milk cows with hands. Man pours milk in vessels. Milk processing before bottling including pouring milk through a cooling device. Men on tractor at fields. A board reads 'For the common defense'. Views of a factory. A man operates a switch on a switchboard for generating electricity. Views of a power generation plant. Narrator describes how America will prevent a slide into hard financial times again after World War 2 ends. From a 1942 production with footage from 1917 through 1942.
Several separate scenes from World War I. Brief glimpse of 4th Liberty Loan parade in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, during the First World War. The Liberty Loan Committee with group of persons standing in front of their stand. Employees of Heyl & Patterson Inc. carry a banner announcing 100% subscription in the 4th Liberty Loan drive. Sign on street pole tells directions to the American Locomotive Pittsburgh works. Scene changes to London,England, where British Army drummers stand and play in front of a YMCA building. People in crowd behind them wave American flags. Americans, including YMCA workers, soldiers, sailors, nurses, and English friends celebrate in a parade,accompanied by a British Army band and escorted by London Bobbies (policemen). Revelers ride in cars bedecked with American flags. Many ride on Army trucks. U.S. officers ride in staff cars. Another change of scene shows a U.S. Navy cinematographer hand cranking his motion picture camera, while standing in an open car. The car has a sign on its side reading: "Photographic Division, U.S. Navy." Another sailor sits in driver's seat while a third keeps pedestrians clear from the camera line of sight.