A film on lifestyle of people in Hungary. A map locates various places. The market place in town of Mezokovesd. People and two soldiers walking in the market. Peasants wearing their traditional costumes. They dance on a festive occasion.
A film on oil fields in Europe. A map locates places. Mills anchored in the Danube River for grinding grain. Milling machinery in operation. Oil from Romanian fields is transported by barges to various ports of Danube. Barges underway in the river. View of Rousse, a city in Bulgaria. People gather in a street. The oil port of Giurgiu in Romania. Barges at the port.
A film on lifestyle of people in Romania. A map locates Rumania. Small scattered army encampments in Romania near the border of Hungary. Irrigation and cultivation activities mainly undertaken in the camps. Men working in the camp. Large lakes in the area. Men seated at a shore. Some men standing near fishing boats. Men and women in a camp.
A film on lifestyle of people in Rumania. A Romanian village wedding. People dancing and enjoying. Trees in the background. Men playing musical instruments. Prospective brides wearing strings of gold coins around their necks. People making mats and baskets from tall reeds that grow in the Danubian swamps. Thatched huts in the area. People standing outside the huts. Carts passing through the area. Bee rearing is done in the village. People use hollowed section of trees for this purpose.
A film titled: 'The Story of Dynamite' on the advancement of the United States by using raw materials. A man and a woman pouring water in a container from a ditch in a field. Water wheels used to furnish power. Prairie schooners moving across the field. Steamships underway at sea. Trains on a railroad track. Buildings along the sides of streets in a city. Traffic on a street. The country advances by extracting great quantities of raw materials from the earth.
A film on manufacture of dynamite in the United States. Nitrate of soda is brought from South America and is used in crystalline form as an ingredient of dynamite. Men working for the manufacture of dynamite. A ship at a port. Men unloading sacks from the ship. Wood pulp is also used as a raw material in the manufacture of dynamite. The other material used is the nitrate of ammonia. Nitrate of soda is converted into nitric acid. It is dumped into huge retorts and is treated with sulphuric acid. Nitric acid vapors are condensed to a liquid in tiers of water-cooled glass pipes. Nitric acid is used to make nitroglycerin which is one of the most powerful explosives. Exterior of a building. Mixed nitric and sulphuric acid is run into a nitrator and refined glycerin is slowly added. The operator watches the thermometer as the chemical reaction releases an enormous amount of heat. An explosion can occur if the heat is not carefully controlled. He also watches the charge through a sight glass. Nitroglycerin and waste acids flow from the nitrator into a lead-lined trough which leads to a separator. The nitroglycerin rises to the top as the mixture settles. Then it is washed and led into storage tanks. It is transported to a dynamite mixing house in a rubber-lined and rubber-tired cart. Men working inside the building. A proper amount of the dry ingredients is poured into a mixing machine. Nitroglycerin is added to it. The mixture is further processed under revolving rubber-shod wheels.
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