A synagogue in Magdiel, Palestine (modern day Hod Hasharon, Israel). Entrance of the Sharon Plain. Jewish policeman patrols on roof of Synagogue and looks through telescope. Reservoirs in the foreground. Car drives past the synagogue.
Film 'Emergency Conservation Work' shows development of the National Parks system in the United States. Images from early 1930s in the United States with idle and quiet factories, mills, and smokestacks due to unemployment and Great Depression. Factory with a board that reads 'Closed' on it. Unemployed workers stand in line at the gates of the General Employment Agency and gather around bulletin boards at the agency. Young men of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) at a meal with heads bowed in prayer, and then standing in a line at the start of a work day. CCC workers digging in a field. Several sign boards seen including: Edisto State Park developed by U.S. department of Interior; CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) camps SP-3 Poinsett Co. 421; Myrtle Beach State Park Emergency Conservation Work; Co. 262 CCC Camp Florida SP-3; Old Lodge Camp SP-15.
American President Thomas Woodrow Wilson at the White House in Washington DC. President Wilson seated at a desk reads important documents. He leads a parade on the Flag Day in a demonstration in favor of national preparedness. The President marches holding the American flag. President Wilson looks out of a glass window in his office at the White House. He speaks over a phone. A herd of sheep in the lawn outside the White House.
American Musical Comedy Star Harry Richman and aviation pioneer Henry Tyndall Dick Merrill (Chief Pilot of Eastern Airlines) on a projected two day round trip fight to London from Floyd Bennett Field in New York. The pair prepare for a flight to dine in London and return to New York for Breakfast. Their Vultee V1-A aircraft [NC16099] being parked outside hangar at Floyd Bennett Field. People gather around the aircraft. Eastern Airlines President, Captain Edward "Eddie" Rickenbacker (U.S.World War One, Ace of Aces) shakes hands and gives best wishes to Richman and Merrill for the flight. The two men get into the monoplane named 'Lady Peace.' The aircraft taxis and takes off from the runway.
An International Flower Show in the New York Coliseum (present day site of Time Warner Center. 10 Columbus Cir, New York, NY 10019, United States) in New York City. A woman walks with a young girl in a garden. Children play in the garden. A woman smells a rose in the garden. 'Flowers around the World' being the theme of the show.
The WPA (Works Progress Administration) project in New York. The WPA constructs roads connecting rural areas to New York. A man in a rural area drives in his car with milk cans. His vehicle gets stuck in mud on a road. Workers construct roads. A rural farmer drives his car on a newly constructed road. Dynamite used to clear an area for road construction. Workers leave the area after a day's work.
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