Grace Kelly, Princess of Monaco, visits the United States with her children. The aircraft lands at Idlewild Airport (Present day John F. Kennedy International Airport - Queens, NY 11430, USA). Princess Grace climbs down the air stair of their Pan Am (DC-8-32 “Clipper Caroline”) plane with her two children, Princess Caroline and Prince Albert. A lady-in-waiting, likely Madge Tivey-Faucon, accompanies Princess Grace and her children on the trip. A huge crowd including photographers and press greets her.
View of Rathaus Schöneberg (John-F.-Kennedy-Platz, 10825 Berlin, Germany), the Government seat of West Berlin. Two women enter a store along Kurfürstendamm. 'Radiogerate Aller Fabrikate' written on Phillips Radio building at Ansbacher Street in the British zone of Berlin. Berliner bank along Kurfürstendamm in Charlottenburg.
Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi meeting with Prime Minister Hussein Ala at Sa’adabad Palace (Tehran Province, Tehran, District 1, Taheri St, RC8F+FJ7, Iran), in northern Tehran, Iran. Large garden by Palace and Alborz mountains in background. The Shah of Iran seats himself in a chair, at a desk. The Prime Minister sits and converses with him. Shah of Iran reads several official documents and annotates one. A paper on the desk is labeled: "US News Report."
Piloted by the tug boat 'Thomas F. Timmins' the first German cargo submarine 'Deutschland', a blockade buster of the Entente Powers naval blockade, arrives in Baltimore Harbor. An animated map shows the movement of the submarine from Germany. Captain of the German submarine 'Deutschland', Paul König, with other men (Konig's name is listed in the slate as Koenig). German sailors on the submarine as it is escorted in port by the tug Timmins. Last part of clip switches to the Atlantic waters off of Provincetown, Massachusetts, where the latest United States Navy submarine, the USS M-1 (SS-47) is seen during its test trials. It was the world's first doubled-hulled submarine.
United States President Woodrow Wilson and his party enter a car and leaves the White House in Washington DC for his Summer White House (or "Summer Capitol"), Shadow Lawn, in Long Branch New Jersey. Well-wishers at the White House stand and wave as the car departs the dirt road driveway of the White House, and a 2nd car with a security detail follows. View of Shadow Lawn, the estate of Joseph Benedict Greenhut. (The estate shown here was originally built in 1903 by John A. McCall of New York Life Insurance Company. He sold it to Greenhut. It was later destroyed by fire, and a mansion belonging to F.W. Woolworth President Hubert T. Parsons was built on the site. That estate is now part of Monmouth College). Large group of people gathered on the front lawn of Shadow Lawn to hear President Wilson speak at a 1916 campaign event. He is introduced and then approaches the podium as people cheer. The estate and podium area at the front of a soaring exterior portico is decorated with many American flags and swags.
United States Air Force Falcon missile guided by a radar to its target in a test. The supersonic air-to-air missile fired from F-102 Delta Dagger interceptor aircraft. The missile fired in a demonstration of automatic electronic destruction.
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