Soldiers on horses, India. Dignitaries on horse-carts pass. Other decorated carts pass. Soldiers on horses with weapons follow them. A building. People watch them.
People gather to watch a religious ceremony in India. Houses along the sides of street. People stand with umbrellas due to rain. Decorated carts pass on the street. People watch the carts. Sacred statues in the carts and models of famous monuments.
Hindus at a funeral in India. They prepare a pyre. They place the dead body on the pyre and cremate the body. Men wash their faces in a sacred river after the funeral.
Decorated elephants moving on the street. Men walk along with them. View of tents. Trees in the background. Men carry a decorated palanquin.
Turkish peasants (refugees) en-route to Greece during World War 1. Destroyed homes in Germany. Devastated plains of Poland. Pre war scenes of Poland showing farm fields in snow. Polish peasant civilians flee an area due to war. They walk across a snow covered field towing a sled with a woman on the sledge. A group of Polish children stand together with English children outside a simple hut in the snow. The boys and girls smile. Pre-war scenes of France: View of a French village from high on a hill side overlooking the valley, town, and farmland. Scene from French village streets in the 1910s with busy food markets and market square area. A woman selling grapes at a stand holds up the grape bunches and smiles for the camera. French children and adults seen shopping in the market. Buyers inspect wares being held in wicker baskets by French women. Constrasting view of war torn France shows barren land with all trees destroyed, wrecked and destroyed towns and villages.
Large crowd gathered at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. People waving farewell to the men aboard the USS Arizona (BB-39) battleship as it is launched into the East River. Steam boats and tug boats move beside the Battleship as it leaves the naval yard. Crowd on the grandstand includes the sponsor, Miss Esther Ross, and the Governor of Arizona, George Hunt. Also Eva Behn, Salee King, Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, Marie Farroll who was Maid of Honor, and Mrs. Ross, the mother of the sponsor. Views of the USS-Arizona underway in the East River, surrounded by many small tug boats and steam ships.