President Woodrow Wilson with King George V and Queen stand in a balcony and wave. A car goes from the Palace. King and President review Welsh guards at Buckingham Palace. President and Lloyd George, Arthur Balfour and Arthur Henderson get out of a car at Number 10 Downing Street. People gather on street to watch them. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Farmers drive wagons filled with milk cans, into Hyde Park, during World War 1. Volunteers help unload the milk cans and line them up along a walkway. Afterwards, they clean their hands in the park lake. A new slate speaks of need to conserve petrol. Men stand looking over stacks of petrol (gasoline) cans in another area of the park. Two trucks (lorries) drive between the stacks of cans. Scene reverts again to volunteers washing their hands in the lake, and to men moving cans of milk. Next, British soldiers in uniform, are seen helping to move milk cans. Scene changes to a long queue of men and women waiting for public transport. Double-decker buses move through the area. A glimpse of a railroad train station, is followed by another look at the men washing hands in the lake. A line of empty trucks leaves the park. A final view of stacked milk cans.
Lord Edmund Henry Hynamn Allenby seen with dignitaries of Mid-eastern and British region. He was a British Field Marshall and the last British leader of mounted cavalry who directed the Palestine campaign in world war I. Huge crowd is gathered to greet him. Army troops marching past the building in which he is standing.
Free French General Charles de Gaulle, accompanied by Admiral Emile Henry Muselier, walks across a gangplank from a large warship to visit the French submarine,Surcouf, during World War 2. They walk past sailors presenting arms in salute. View of the Surcouf's unique (for a submarine) turret with twin 8-inch guns. From aft of the conning tower, they watch demonstration of a sliding hangar for the boat's observation plane. View of the crew lined up in dress uniforms, on deck. General de Gaulle and Admiral Muselier conversing with the submarine's officers.
Exhibition of china ware, various crockery sets on shelves. Decanters and glasses can also be seen.
Three British women looking at hats on display. Bolts of fabric on shelves. Floral fabric artistically draped in an Asian manner on a posing mannequin. Various fabrics on dummy figures can be seen, fabrics draping three mannequins. Mannequins stand on a rotating platform. A mannequin wearing a floral evening dress. Various mannequins wearing glamorous formal evening dresses and coats. People looking at exhibition of gowns on dummy figures.
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