View of oil field in Los Angeles. Pipeline on a hilly terrain. A man walks towards the pipeline.
Houses with elaborate architecture in a residential area in Los Angeles. Well kept gardens in the front with steps in between. Palm trees are planted. Paved roads with light bulbs. Electricity wiring in the background.
Map showing the location of Avalon on Santa Catalina Island in California. Passesngers climb steps of a steamship going to Avalon from San Pedro. A lighthouse is seen. Many other passenger boats also seen. Hotel Stamford is seen. Passengers disembark. All ashore at Avalon Harbor.
General Hugh L. Scott, General Frederick Funston and General Alvaro Obregon after a conference in El Paso in Texas. The conference held to arrange co-operation of troops against Mexican leader Pancho Villa's raids. Jeep and horses seen on field. War planes seen. Men firing artillery pieces. Explosions and smoke seen.
Men of United States 24th Infantry Regiment ("Buffalo Soldiers") in Mexico during the Mexican Expedition. African American soldiers of the Regiment in field. Man using binoculars. Tents erected in lines in the camp. Men get out from tents. A man getting his head shaved in the hot climate.
In live fire practice,during World War 1, two French soldiers walk forward and hurl hand grenades, as several others watch from behind protective barricades. The grenade throwers hit the ground as soon as they release them. Others duck down behind their barricades. New scene from atop a building in a town, an artillery shell is seen bursting and smoke rising near a building by a distant road. Two shell explosions are seen on a hillside and one releasing white smoke (possibly gas). French soldiers busy themselves at their fortified positions on high ground above a plain, while an officer slowly rotates a large finned mortar shell on its shaft, vertically. (WWI; WW1)