Describes raw materials used in telephone manufacturing. The map shows a location of Sumatra in Indonesia. View of the island. Natives around their settlements on the island. Natives outside a Sumatran temple. Houses of Sumatran architecture in a village. Rubber trees are girdled and latex is collected. Natives bring latex in containers. The containers are weighed and coagulated. Coagulated rubber is taken out. Rubber blocks are loaded into railroad cars by Sumatran natives for transportation. Picture shows a telephone receiver made up of rubber.
Thomas Edison operates a movie camera, evolved from his kinetoscope invention. He makes a movie image of Henry Ford, seated in a chair in front of the camera.
Pan American Conference in Havana, Cuba. Conference in session with Cordell Hull signing the treaty. United States Secretary of State Cordell Hull and Mrs Hull arrive in Havana by ship. Cuban President Doctor Federico Laredo Bru greets the dignitaries.
Activities at the Highland Park Ford Plant in Highland Park, Michigan. American workers work inside the factory. Automobile motor blocks and engine parts on assembly line belt.
Activity at the Highland Park Ford Plant in Highland Park, Michigan. American workers work inside the factory. Motor blocks and engine parts on assembly line belt. Motor, steering column and transmission-radiator added to automobile chassis. Body of the vehicle fitted over chassis. A number of Ford vehicles drive out of the garage.
Autogyro (early helicopter) flies over monuments in Washington DC. H F Pitcairn sits in the cockpit of autogyro. The autogyro with whirling wings for lifting power taxis on runway in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. The autogyro takes off from airfield. The autogyro flies over Lincoln Memorial (Memorial Bridge visible behind spanning the Potomac River), Washington Monument and the U.S. Capitol building in Washington DC