Alcohol production and taxation system: dramatization and animation. Worker carries bottles of wine at a wine factory. Taxes on beer paid by brewer based on self assessment system. Beer production in factory. Workers work in factory. Alcohol and Tobacco Taxation division (A&TT) examine production center. Officials work in the department. Fields of tobacco crop. Tobacco used for chewing and smoking. Revenue collected from this production is 2 billion dollars annually. Workers make liquor at an illegal moonshine industry in rural area. Officers of A&TT enforcement branch spike raid on violators and one man escapes. Officer follows him by car and captures him.
Alcohol and Tobacco Taxation (A&TT) division film begins with sign reading "Bootlegging Breeds Crime. Stamp it Out" Closeup of handgun. Man steps out of a 1961 Plymouth Savoy and drops a violin case containing a machine gun on the ground. Vault at department of Alcohol and Tobacco Taxation contains many guns. Flashlight guns, cigarette lighter guns, and cane guns are displayed. Laboratory where substances are tested show boiling liquid in a flask. A scientist catalogs substances in a book. Molten glass is formed into beer bottles on the assembly line. Barrels of whiskey on the assembly line. Interior of mixer where mash for whiskey alcohol is being agitated.
Federal agents, also known as 'Dry agents' conduct a 'moonshine raid' in Dismal Swamp during Prohibition in the United States. They hold guns while searching for the still. Agents find a leg hold trap. African American men running the still raise their hands as agents surround and arrest them. Agents empty 180 gallons of alcohol in the still and 24 barrels of peach mash onto the ground.
British, French and Belgian forces occupy city following refusal of post World War I reparation demands by the Allied countries. Allied troops advance into city of Dusseldorf, Germany. People gather on street. Cavalry patrols on road of the city and people watch them. British tanks stand on road, driven on road and soldiers walk past tank. Soldiers visible from the window of tank. Troops run past train. Crowd gathers to witness demonstration in a square of the German city, as citizens protest the demands and their effect on the German economy. Men stand on platform. One man holds board of Baron Von Lersner. Scene of a building with tome. Flag on a building half staffed. Cavalry soldiers walk past the crowd. Soldiers make human chain in front of crowd. Soldier stands on road.
Protest in defense of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Wall Street, New York City. Laborers demonstrate at Wall Street. Crowd gathers at the street. Policemen on horses stand behind the crowd. Men and women speak from dice. Banners and placards read: Governor Fuller, Sacco and Vanzetti, Emergency, Strike, Labor, Defense. Crowd raises hand.
Feeding needy women and children in Germany, during period of hyperinflation and shortages in Germany after World War 1. A woman in a white apron fills large containers with hot food that women then distribute to children. Children gather around her. Woman in apron pours food in cups with spatula and distributes it to women. Children sit on benches and eat food in cups. Woman serves food. Children eat food with spoons.
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