Vocational school instruction for young men in the United States. Instructor issues instructions by phone to a boy, wearing a headset, who operates electrical switches on a switchboard or circuit board, in response. Two boys wearing headsets, sitting at table holding what appear to be interlinked radio components. One boy manipulates dials, as if tuning the radio. Camera pans the right where components including what appear to be stacked capacitors are being activated. A young man using a telegraph key or morse code key to transmit a message. Boys in a machine shop or factory where machines are belt-driven from a common drive shaft overhead (out of sight). Closeup of one boy turning a metal part on a lathe. He makes measurement with calipers as the work progresses.
Manufacturing of gas tanks for automobiles in the United States. Interior of a factory. Workers operate a metal working machinery. They display several parts.
Manufacturing of gas tanks for automobiles in the United States. Interior of a factory. Workmen operate a machinery. They place sheets of metal in a press. The sheets are bent into elliptical shapes, tanks without ends. A worker installs inlets. The worker welds inlets to the tanks. He installs ends. Another worker hammers down flanges to hold the ends of the tanks. He machine rolls the flanges on the tank ends. The seams on the tanks are welded. A tank tube is placed in a vice, internal partitions are placed and welded into position. The tanks are tested in vats of water for leaks. The fittings for attaching cars are attached to the tanks.
A crowd parades on the street during a festival in Japan. Civilians in native costumes walk along street. Flag on buildings on side of street. Officials in large conveyance. Parade passes under archway. Dancers with crowd. Crowd passes through gate. To dispel the evil spirits the dragon is awarded a prominent place in the procession. Large dragon on street. Crowd pulls floats. Geisha girls and others dance on street. Civilians watch.
Panoramic view of rice paddies in Japan. Mountains in the background. Workers pull plants. Ox draws harrow over fields. Workers standing in water plant sprouts. Trees in the background. Japanese couple eats rice from a bowl with chopsticks.
Nurses attend to babies at the Ecole Edith Cavell (now known as the Medical Centre Edith Cavell) in Brussels. A memorial to Edith Cavell outside the Medical Centre Edith Cavell Hospital building, located between rue de Bruxelles (now rue Edith Cavell) and rue de l'Ecole (now rue Marie Depage) in Uccle, a municipality in Brussels. An inscription on the memorial in French. Nurses carry small children out of the hospital building. A nurse attends to children at a hospital. A nurse tries to comfort a crying baby while holding two small children. American sailors hold babies. A close view of an upset child. Nurse holding a child. A toddler boy tries to walk on his own.