People gathered to watch the coronation of the Apple Blossom Queen in the United States. A man dressed as an apple is carried in a litter. Majorettes carry and unfold a huge American flag in front of a city or town hall. Men and women watch the ceremony from the lawn. A man crowns a teenaged beauty queen as the town’s Apple Blossom Queen. The man kisses the girl on the cheeks. The Apple Blossom Queen and others dressed in white gown pose under a cherry blossom tree. The beauty queen kisses an apple blossom branch and smiles. The Apple Blossom Queen sits on a throne in a float during the Apple Blossom Parade. A young girl eating candy while watching the parade. Girls wave from decorated floats as they pass by large crowds in a street.
A Colt Model 1911 and its various parts. The semi-automatic pistol including magazine spring, slide, magazine catch, trigger assembly, and barrel are shown being assembled in an animated sequence, part by part.
Various American equipment and weapons of World War I. Incendiary hand grenades used by Allies during World War I displayed in United States.
A U.S. soldier throws two exploding incendiary hand grenades during tests in the United States in World War 1. . Closeup of an incendiary canister. The tester (unseen) taps the fuse end of the canister and lays it down on a rough corrugated surface. It smokes before exploding and creating an intense flame that melts the canister. Molten remains of the device.
An American soldier is shown, among buildings at a military base, kneeling beside a rifle set on a stand for test firing into an earthen berm nearby. He places a round into the chamber and closes the bolt. He then opens the bolt and retrieves the round (which slips from his hand and drops to the ground). Next, two different size rounds of ammunition are shown.
U.S. Army testing of weapons during World War 1. An American soldier fires a Browning M1917A1 .30-caliber Water-Cooled Machine Gun while sitting in a hard wooden chair on a porch. Two soldiers test firing a French M1914 Hotchkiss machine gun. Another soldier test fires a Vickers Mark I water-cooled machine gun.
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