Equipment like transformers, switchboards, switch gear, motors and turbines are manufactured in General Electric industries of U.S. War production workers work with equipment in a General Electric Plant. Industrial equipment being operated in factories, producing goods needed for the war effort in World War 2. Stacks emit smoke. A General Electric worker returns home after work. General Electric factory seen in the background as the worker climbs a hill. He looks out over the General Electric factory area. Close up view of the American worker standing with his lunchbox under his arm, as narrator describes his important contribution to the war materiel production effort, with the man's work clothing being akin to a military uniform.
Elihu Root, Secretary of State Charles F Huges, Senators Henry Cabot Lodge and Oscar W Underwood pose on steps of a building. Cameramen take pictures. Automobile parked along road in the background.
President Warren G. Harding, and his wife Florence Harding, pose in the White House garden with crowd including U.S. Post Office postmasters from across the country. President Harding tells Mrs. Harding they are being filmed on movie camera. She looks toward camera and raises her right arm with hand in a fist, in an enthusiastic gesture, and smiles. Two bearded postmasters talk in front of the White House. Film slate says they are "from Gopher Prairie," (perhaps a reference to an unnamed small town in the U.S., or to Sauk Centre, Minnesota, after which Sinclair Lewis' fictional town of "Gopher Prairie" was modeled in his then-popular novel "Main Street"). A puppy dog emerges from a mailbox on the ground.
Founder of Second Ku Klux Klan (KKK), William J Simmons, appears before a Congressional Committee in Washington DC. View of committee members seated.
Crewmen fit rigs onto sail boat 'Elsie' and prepare it for the race journey. Captain Marty Welch on schooner leaves harbor. Crowd along dock in the background. Schooner 'Elsie' underway at sea.
Theodore Roosevelt addresses a crowd, at a fair ground, while running for President as a 3rd party (Bull Moose) candidate, in 1912. Crowd listens. Some automobiles on the grass in the background. Front view of Roosevelt speaking. He gestures during his speech. American flags on the podium.
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