Describes raw materials used in telephone manufacturing. The map shows a location of British Columbia. Animation shows mining of gold through tunneling in a mountain. Gold ore mined inside a gold mine in British Columbia. Gold is smelted and poured into molds for casting slabs.
Describes raw materials used in telephone manufacturing. The map shows a location of Queretaro in Mexico. Workers collect molten silver pouring from a huge bowl at a smelter. Silver ore is crushed in a huge stone crusher. Workers load ore bags on their backs. Workers stack slabs of silver.
Describes raw materials used in telephone manufacturing. The map shows a location of Russia. Platinum mined in the dredges of Ural Mountain streams. Hand examines crushed platinum ore in a bowl. Mixture of silver, gold and platinum is melted and poured into mold. The resultant alloy bar is placed between samples of gold, silver and platinum on a table. Animation shows use of the alloy in a telephone instrument.
Describes raw materials used in telephone manufacturing. The map shows a location of Sumatra in Indonesia. View of the island. Natives around their settlements on the island. Natives outside a Sumatran temple. Houses of Sumatran architecture in a village. Rubber trees are girdled and latex is collected. Natives bring latex in containers. The containers are weighed and coagulated. Coagulated rubber is taken out. Rubber blocks are loaded into railroad cars by Sumatran natives for transportation. Picture shows a telephone receiver made up of rubber.
Brief out-of-context anachronistic views of P-38 aircraft flying in formation. This is followed by footage featuring American air Ace Eddie Rickenbacker. A 95th Squadron Nieuport 28 biplane fighter is rolled out of the hangar at an airfield. 94th Aero SPAD XIIIs lined up on a field. Pilot climbs in the cockpit of a biplane. Rickenbacker in the cockpit. Man pulls the prop through on the biplane. Eddie Rickenbacker poses beside his plane. Hat in Ring insignia painted on the plane indicating the 94th Aero Squadron. Rickenbacker and other pilots talk standing beside a biplane. Group includes ace Harvey Weir Cook. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Rationing during World War I. Large crowd gathered outside a building. People collect rations at a counter. People wait in queue outside an American Red Cross Relief Station. Food and medical supplies distributed among people. Red Cross nurses near the queue. Cart rolls supplies from a warehouse.
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