Japanese policemen and women enter the main public gate of the Imperial Palace park in Tokyo, Japan. Japanese policemen lined up in the Imperial Palace park. The policemen march and stand at attention in front of the Imperial Palace.They bow respectively, and then raise their white-gloved hands in unison to cheer. Cadre of Shinto priests lined up in front of the policemen. When the ceremony concludes, the policemen and families run to meet one another.
Many open automobiles carry high ranking Japanese officials, along a road in the Imperial Palace park in Tokyo, Japan. The cars drive past lined up Japanese policemen. The policemen assemble into formations on the park grounds. Some of them jog into position. They carry ceremonial swords. They parade en masse in the park grounds. Mounted policemen also parade beside them. Policemen stand at ease in the ranks.
Official cars moving along a road in the Imperial Palace park in Tokyo, Japan. The cars drive past lined up. Japanese in various dress. Policemen in uniform with white gloves, walk together, informally, on a path, after some ceremonial activity. Japanese Emperor Hirohito and officials get into a car in front of the Imperial Palace. Officials in formal wear and officers in uniform, assemble in front of the imperial palace. The car is driven away. Japanese flag displayed on a pillar of the building.
U.S. battleships of Division Nine, augmenting the British Grand Fleet, in Firth of Forth, Scotland, during World War I. The Cantilever Forth rail bridge over the Firth of Forth is seen dimly in the background. The Turkish battlecruiser TCG Yavuz, is seen, and the British aircraft carrier, Furious, in camouflage paint, with aircraft on her deck. .
A U.S. four-stack destroyer flanks the Presidential Yacht, Mayflower, as it steams, carrying Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, followed by a motor launch, in New York City on Christmas Day, 1918 a month after the end of World War I. The next scene shows the USS Pennsylvania (BB-38),with ship's company lining her decks and her forward three-gun turrets turned to port. Next sequence is take from a small boat circling the Pennsylvania from bow to her port side, where two small boats are seen. In a separate scene, a motor launch pulls up to a gangplank at starboard side of the Pennsylvania. Scene shifts to the USS Texas (BB-35) steaming, followed by other battleships. Final scenes show warships anchored,one belching heavy black smoke. A U.S. Cruiser. (World War i; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
U.S. warships, including 4-stacker destroyers, leave New York Harbor for maneuvers in the Atlantic Ocean after World War I. Sailors relaxing on crowded deck of a U.S. Destroyer. Another destroyer and other vessels off to starboard. Crew maneuvers what appears to be a paravane (used in minesweeping operations), on davit. The ship's officers look down from the deck of the destroyer, where device is lowered into the water. Smoke rises from water, below the deck. Pieces of material being towed in water by lines from the Destroyer. Officer and sailors salute an officer disembarking. Officer,holding a megaphone, steps to platform and descends toward a launch. Views of streamers flying from a ship's mast and cables being pulled skyward above the ship. (holding a balloon, or other object aloft?) A motor launch filled with sailors passes rapidly. Buildings nearby in background.
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