Children gathered at Golden Gate Park for May Day parade and celebrations. Young girls parade wearing dresses. The May Queen dressed in white gown stands. Teenage girls parade. May Queen is crowned. Children dance around the May Poles and crowd watches.
Post prohibition reenactment of speakeasy days, centered on 21 Club in New York City. Federal agent hands a warrant to employee, through grillwork of door. People drinking at bar. Men in suits talk to each other. Man guarding door presses hidden button to alert others to the presence of Federal agents. Speakeasy owners, wearing boutonnieres in their lapels, conduct business inside the club and toast to their deal. Liquor bottles being discarded and hidden in the process. Bartender totaling receipts.
Students demonstrate on 'Red Army Day' in Shanghai, China. People mill around outside the USSR Consulate Building. The Soviet Legation of Chinese students wave flags and shout in front of the USSR Consulate Building. Students raise clenched fists. Leader stands on wall haranguing the crowd. Students march away carrying flags on bridge.
U.S. amphibious landings in Okinawa following L-Day. View from moving Landing craft. Landing craft goes toward island, firing guns. Shell bursts and smoke on island in the background. Gunner on LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel) fires machine gun toward island. LVT A-4 comes up on beach. Line of Marines crouched down and moves cautiously through hilly terrain. They dug in on hilly, red terrain. Marines run across hilly terrain. Marine with wounded arm runs back toward beach with weapon in hand. (World War II period).
Military band (not playing) leads U.S. soldiers of the 339th Infantry, in loose formation, through wooded area to a cemetery in a field near a church in Archangel (Arkhangelsk) during the Allied North Russia Intervention of World War 1. Several officers (unidentifiable) are standing on a raised stand. Two large crosses are seen behind them. Scene changes completely, to American Memorial Day ceremony at Archangel,in 1919. Allied officers occupy stands decorated with colors of the participating Entente powers. The military band is located nearby. A speaker's stand is set up and ostensibly occupied by Brigadier General Wilds P. Richardson and British Field Marshal Edmund Ironside. (But they cannot be recognized in the distance) A horse and carriage are seen in the far background. Soldiers, sailors, and civilians are in attendance. The ceremony begins with everyone saluting colors held by an honor guard. Then, a squad of American soldiers fires a three-salvo salute with their rifles. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Army Day parade on Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington DC. Men on horseback followed by army band along Pennsylvania Avenue. Crowd lines side walks. Military units march. Cadets from Washington's colleges and high schools march. All units parade past the President's reviewing stand.
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