View towards starboard bow of the German Rotor Ship, "Buckau", at anchor, being photographed from a small boat that rocks with the waves. Another view towards her starboard stern. Brief closeup glimpse of one of her 50 ft tall rotor cylinders. View of the "Buckau" from starboard, abeam. Change of scene shows a German Braunschweig-class pre-dreadnought battleship of the Kaiserliche Marine at anchor, viewed from the "Buckau." Camera pans port-side of the battleship, from stern towards bow, and continues panning left showing the deck and some crew of the "Buckau," from which it is filming. Next, two German warships are seen anchored, directly astern of the rotor ship.
Paul von Hindenburg, second President of the German Reich,enters a car and rides in a motorcade, accompanied by Horse Guards and motorcycle escorts. Spectators line the streets to watch. Crowds fill a square. The procession passes through the Brandenburg Gate. Hindenburg leads group of politicians down the stairs of a building, where they stop and
U.S. President John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. with his family aboard yacht Mayflower in Washington DC, United States. Officials embark on the yacht with the President. President Coolidge with Captain Andrews and Governor Percival Wood Clement of Vermont. They talk and pose. John Coolidge, the son of the President, talks to other officials.
A film titled 'Make America first in the air' on the development of air power of the United States. Animated map of the U.S. with a line from New York to Kansas. A covered wagon train moves along a desert terrain. Mountains in the background. Animated map of the U.S. with a line from New York to Kansas, and continuing through New Mexico and Arizona to California. Railroads decreased the time taken to cover the distance between the places to four days. A train using a steam locomotive moves to the right along a double track. Animation over a map of the U.S. with a line from New York to California. Airways further reduced the time taken to cover the distance to 27 hours. A U.S. Army Air Service Fokker T-2 aircraft in flight.
A film on the development of air power. A German Zeppelin dirigible in Germany. The dirigible in flight. Trees in the foreground. Animation shows Zeppelin routes in Germany.
A film on the development of air transport. German dirigible Bodensee in flight in Germany. A large group of workers and spectators watch as airship "Bodensee" is pulled out of a large hangar. Workers around and in the gondola as it rests on the ground. The dirigible in flight over a city. Interior of the gondola shows two men eating dinner. Other people are looking out of the windows of the gondola. Crowds on the ground looking up. Bodensee airship comes in for a landing.