Boy Scouts from all parts of the United States and the world come to Washington DC for the National Jamboree. Aerial views of tents of the Boy Scouts in a tent city on the monument grounds, near the Memorial Bridge. Boys erect tents. The boys conduct demonstrations and ceremonies during the ten day convention. They are seen in Native American Indian tribal dress with bows and arrows. Boy Scouts in western cowboy wear. A sign : 'Texas Rangers'. The boys pretend to shoot revolvers toward the camera. They cheer and raise their hats.
A woman wins against a man in a log rolling competition in St. Helens, Oregon. A woman and a man stand on a log in the water. They try to stay on the spinning logs. The man falls into water. The woman wins. The woman after winning.
Winter sports in mid summer at Mount Lassen in California. Skiers fish trouts after racing over the snows at Lake Helen. A group of skiers skis. A skier jumps from a slope. Women stand with ski boards. The skiers ski during the winter sports.
View from US Navy warship USS Pennsylvania (BB-38), as it escorts the SS George Washington liner with U.S. President Woodrow Wilson aboard on his voyage to France for the Paris Peace Conference, shortly after the end of World War I. Sailors and officers on the USS Pennsylvania in the Atlantic Ocean. Guns mounted aboard the USS Pennsylvania are fired. Views of the SS George Washington in the background, and of other ships in the escort group. Water sweeps over the deck from heavy seas. The President's ship is placed at a position astern. People stand near the railings of the USS Pennsvlvania. A ship in the background. View of bow of ship rising and falling in heavy seas during voyage.
French women serving in farming roles during World War I as majority of French men are engaged in World War 1. Women farmers together with younger French boys and girls holding farming tools and walking toward fields, through some war rubble. Women with babies pick potatoes in farms. They reap crops and make stacks of it. The farmers attach a mule with a cart loaded with hay stacks. Two women pull the stacks out from the cart. The farming women and youth stand in a circle and use flails for threshing wheat.
The U.S.Navy submarine AL9 performing high speed maneuvers on the surface, during World War 1. What looks to be a camouflage paint scheme is where paint has been abraded away by the sea. Toward the end of the sequence, a Pennsylvania-class "Super Dreadnaught" battle ship is seen in the background. (Note: During World War I, Captain of the AL-9 was Captain Percy T. Wright, and the Executive Officer was Commander Terry Brewster Thompson, who later wrote about the exploits of the AL-9 in his book entitled "Take Her Down".)
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