Operations of U.S. Navy A-7A Corsair 2 aircraft aboard USS Ranger underway in the South China Sea during the Vietnam War. A press conference in progress by United States Navy Vice Admiral William F. Bringle. Several newsmen in the foreground. A newsman jots notes. Newsmen sitting at the tables in a wardroom listen to the briefing conference. Vice Admiral Bringle seated at a desk in the background. A news cameraman in the foreground takes movies. Many newsmen in the wardroom during the press conference.
U.S. President John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. signs the Kellogg-Briand Pact in the United States. He signs the pact with U.S. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg. Men entering a building. Officials seated at a desk. Other stand behind them. The President signs the pact. Other personages include Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon, Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis, Secretary of the Navy Curtis Dwight Wilbur, Secretary of Labor James John Davis, Secretary of the Interior Roy O. West, Secretary of Agriculture William Marion Jardine, Secretary of Commerce William Fairfield Whiting, Postmaster General Harry Stewart New, Attorney General John Garibaldi Sargent, Vice President Charles Gates Dawes and Senators William E. Borah, Charles Curtis, Frederick Huntington Gillett, Thomas J. Walsh, Hiram Bingham, and Charles A. Swanson.
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 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. 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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