A transcontinental non stop flight in the United States. A U.S. Army Air Service Fokker T-2 aircraft at Roosevelt Field in New York. ' Army Air Service Non-Stop Coast to Coast' painted on the side of the aircraft. Men near the aircraft. Lieutenant John A. Macready and Lt. Oakley G. Kelly are helped in their parachutes beside the aircraft. They pose. The aircraft taxis and takes off. The aircraft in flight. It lands in San Diego, California. Lieutenants Macready and Kelly beside the aircraft. People in the background.
A flight around the world. A globe rotates. U.S. President Calvin Coolidge bids goodbye to army airmen. The President and Major General Mason Patrick and the fliers on a lawn of the White House, Washington DC. The journey starts from Seattle, Washington. Douglas World Cruisers ( DWC ) in flight. The DWCs parked in a bay. A forest in the background. They arrive at Chignik Bay, Alaska. The aircraft in flight. An iceberg. Lieutenant Lowell Smith stands on one of the pontoons and works with propellers on his DWC. The DWCs in flight from America to Asia. The aviators are welcomed by Japanese officials in Yetorufu, Japan. Japanese children playing in a school yard. A child has a Japanese and a U.S. flag, one in each hand. They reach Hong Kong, China. A fleet of native junks to welcome them. In Calcutta, India , a DWC taxis on water. A large number of people gather around a DWC. A crane lifts a DWC out of water. The aviators land in Constantinople. People around the aircraft. They reach Paris, France.. Aerial views of the city. Mrs. Maclaren congratulates the airmen in London, England. The crew of USS Richmond cheers the aviators. The aviators board their aircraft from a small boat. People watch as the aircraft land in Labrador, Canada. The DWCs are anchored in a bay and the aviators are brought to the shore in a boat. Naval officers greet them. The aircraft in flight over the Boston skyline. A motor launch in Boston Harbor. The DWCs land on water. The aviators arrive at the dock in the motor launch and are greeted by officials. They fly over New York. A large crowd greets the aviators at Mitchel Field, Long Island. They arrive at Bolling Field in Washington and are congratulated by President Coolidge and U.S. Secretary of War John Wingate Weeks. The three DWCs are followed by an XNBL-1 Barling bomber in flight in Dayton. Lt. Jack Harding is welcomed home. The world flight ends in Seattle, Washington. Photographers click pictures as a DWC lands. Major Martin greets aviators standing beside a DWC.
A torchlight parade protesting war. Marchers are principally women. At start of film, a group of about 10 Women, all dressed in white, hold white streamers descending from a dove-like symbol of peace. The parade is conducted along a city street. Smoke rises all around from torches or bonfires beside the line of march. Some women carry a large banner reading: "Thou Shalt Not Kill." Other signs held by marchers appeal to Chemists and others who create tools of war, such as poison gas, to cease and desist such activities One sign reads: "Scientists Use Your Genius for Peace, Not War." A Bahai banner is carried by some marchers. Police officers monitor the march and marchers. Several women drape themselves in American flags. They are accompanied by a Civil War Union Army officer, carrying a sword. Many in the parade carry the same or similar signs and banners. Some are more legible when seen several times. Examples include: "Chemists, Help World Peace, Refuse to Make Poison Gas" and "Exploitation Leads to War, Abolish it." Other notable signs and slogans include: "Mothers pay the Heaviest War Tax;" "War is Not Inevitable. Human Nature does change;" "Immediate Universal Complete Disarmament;" and "We stand with Gandhi for World Peace." The last new one seen reads: " We will not give our children for another war."
Aircraft are used for different purposes in the United States. Men and a pilot and an observer load a three-lensed camera into the back cockpit of a two-winged bi-plane for map making. A view from an aircraft into the two cockpits of another aircraft directly below. Two U.S. Army Air Service officers assemble a mosaic map on a wall. A mosaic aerial map. An aerial photograph of New York City, the Island of Manhattan with the East River on the right and the Hudson River on the left.
Aircraft are used for different purposes in the United States. The U.S. Air Mail Service makes use of commercial aviation. Snow covered mountains as seen from an aircraft. Animation of a small aircraft following a line across a map from New York to San Francisco. A U.S. air mail truck is backed up to a U.S. mail service converted Airco DH-4 aircraft on a grass landing field.
Outbreak of World War I as a consequence of Archduke of Austria-Este Francis Ferdinand's assassination in Sarajevo. Troops gather in Germany on the bidding of Kaiser Wilhelm II. Soldiers leave Berlin. Soldiers of the Alexandria Regiment march. Family members bid farewell as new recruit soldiers board a railroad train and leave for a war front. Smiling soldiers. A huge crowd at a platform to bid farewell to the soldiers. The train carrying the soldiers pulls away.
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