Events during World War I. View into distance along newly laid railroad track, on round log ties, across plains of Russia. Railroad car containing construction materials. Construction workers maneuver wheel barrows of construction materials along a wooden path. Russian officers pose on platform, looking out over the newly laid tracks. A French officer is also seen on the platform.
United States flying boat China Clipper (a Martin M-130 Flying Boat of Pan American Airways) at the beach in Alameda, California. Ceremonies precede the China Clipper passenger airplane take off from Alameda to Honolulu. The huge craft leaves for the first mail and passenger flight. Captain Musick and his crew. Mail to be loaded in packets. The U.S. flag on the flying boat. Huge crowd at the beach. Plane taxis in water. Aerial view of the land. Pilot seated at the controls in the cockpit. Interior and exterior view of the China Clipper while in flight.
Greenbelt Community Center Buildings in Greenbelt Maryland, a cooperative planned community and early model suburban community in the United States. Women walk outside the building gate. Men and women walk in the premises. Children walk in garden. A girl paints on drawing board easel. Children rush out of the building. Tables and chairs outside the building. Children paint. A boy with paint brushes near pottery.
Richard Nixon-Spiro Agnew election campaign for the office of Presidency in United States. Citizens of United States in view. A young couple talks to each other. A huge building in view. A car on the streets. A bridge in view. A group of young people enjoy on beach in the evening. A huge crowd on street. Several people sit in the spectator area. Photographs of Richard Nixon.
Post-war subway condtruction in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union. Brief view of cars driving along street, followed by scenes of subway workers in tunnel, 165 feet below the surface. The tunnel ceiling and walls are reinforced by shoring structures. A power shovel dumps dug out rock and earth into an open rail car where a worker packs it with a long-handled tool. Drillers at the tunnel face use pneumatic tools to dig through sedimentary layers of material. A man and woman push a rail car full of diggings through the tunnel. A surveyor uses a transit suspended from the ceiling by a wire. A woman fastens a thin rope to a light cable. Back at the face of the excavation, drillers stop and one calls out to others drilling from the opposite end (unseen). The drillers then commence again, and break through the remaining wall separating the two ends of the tunnel. Drillers from the opposite sides greet one another and celebrate the completion of this 12 mile segment of the subway tunnel.
Induction ceremonies of 'Ku Klux Klan' in Georgia, United States, at Stone Mountain. Ku Klux Klan (KKK) members stand on an open field. A large number of men wearing civilian dress walk in a line on an open field. The members of Ku Klux Klan wear white robes and conical hoods with face masks. A burning Cross on the ground. The men joining the KKK kneel down during the ceremonies. A large burning cross is seen, along with a smaller one lit with bulbs.
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