Documentary about geography, markets and culture of New York Americans of future in the congested lower East Side. A crowded tenement district with shops on both sides of street. Road busy with merchandise and sidewalks of these roads, completely packed with pedestrians. A busy market in crowded ghetto. Fruit and vegetable merchants in the market. Sign in background on storefront reads, "Bokschizky & Rotkowitz 252 Pharmacists and Chemists Women buying and bargaining for the merchandise. Children in the market. A public procession passing by on the streets. A large group of marchers carrying a giant American flag together, leads the parade.
Citizens Military Training Camp in Camp Knox, Kentucky. Infantry troops, cavaliers and horse drawn artillery on dusty parade grounds. Artillerymen fire cannons on target during practice. Soldiers dive in a lake from a wooden diving board. They clean mess kits and eat watermelon at the camp.
A film titled 'Making of rubber tire' shows the manufacturing process of a rubber tire in a factory in United States. Raw rubber in form of biscuits and mats from Ceylon being washed and dried. Zinc, sulphur and lamp black are added for color and strength. Rubber is placed on metal cylinders and vulcanized at 300 degrees Fahrenheit and processed further to obtain rubber tire.
A map shows the rubber producing regions in the wet tropical areas along the equator. Workers in South America, possibly Brazil, extract latex on a rubber tree and collect it in containers. Acetic acid is used to thicken the latex. Workers fold and pile up flat rubber sheets.
View of rotor blades revolving on a vertical axis above the fuselage. Engineers working on Plane-Radical lifting screw and inspecting the pitch variation of De Bothezat helicopter during its development at McCook Field in Dayton Ohio, under a contract with Russian immigrant George de Bothezat issued by the U.S. Army Air Service. Engineers inspecting at fuselage. Professor George de Bothezat, the inventor of the helicopter, Lieutenant Colonel J.E.Fetchet and Major T.H.Bane discussing. Professor De Bothezat and four officers sitting on cart to which the screw is attached are lifted as the large rotor turns. The rotor went on to be used in the so called Jerome-de Bothezat Flying Octopus helicopter that featured four 6-bladed rotors.
Elihu Root traveling to Washington Arms Conference (also called Washington Disarmament Conference or Conference on Limitations of Armaments) Elihu Root and others crossing a plank from a boat to a dock. Members of American delegation for the conference gathered and photographed. Members enter a waiting car.
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