Operation of early switchboards. Pages of book showing early switchboard. Man operating switchboard. The first switchboard for commercial telephone service installed in New Haven, Connecticut. A man operating and talking into telephone and other man listening. Men operating switchboards.
Berlin City police control crowds of protesting people on a street in Berlin, Germany. Large crowd of Germans in open air assembly. Many demonstrate support for a new German Republic. People with signs and banners. One announces a group's support for the German Socialist Republic. Some carry tricolor flags of Germany. Some carry solid (red?) communist flags. The crowd marches by the Reichstag and Brandenburg Gate. Berlin Police on horseback control the marchers. A man conducts a band of muscians in the midst of the crowd back in the open air assembly location.
Describes immigration to America. Faces of persons superimposed on flowing water. Statue of Liberty. Announcement and scenes of U.S. Customs processing at Kennedy Airport in New York City. Immigrants from Sicily, Italy at the airport. Two men going through immigration at the airport. People greet each other. Man fixes photographs on Alien Registration Cards. Narrator states, "Aliens today, Citizens in 5 years time. The process is almost automatic." Car driven on road in suburban neighborhood stops at a house. Map of United States. Paintings of different cities of United States in early times. Old man is interviewed and he speaks about his grandfather who migrated to the United States in the 19th century from England. Walking stick of his grandfather and letters written by grandfather.
United States Lines flagship, the S.S. Leviathan on its way to Cherbourg and South Hampton from New York City pier. Recreational pursuits aboard the ship. People seated on chairs circled, play with cage ball. Men and women play golf and shuffleboard. People eat at pie eating contest.
United States Lines flagship, the S.S. Leviathan on its way to Cherbourg and South Hampton from New York City, USA. Recreational pursuits aboard the ship. A man plays violin and people dance aboard SS. Leviathan. Couples of men and women dance on ship deck. A stylish young 1920s woman in with flapper style dances the Charleston or something similar on the ship deck, with enthusiasm.
United States Lines flagship, the SS Leviathan on its way to Cherbourg and South Hampton from New York City. Recreational pursuits aboard the ship. Men and women dive in to an open air pool on deck of the ship. Crowd watches from balcony. People at huge interior tiled plunge.
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