United States aircraft land aboard the aircraft carrier Langley off the coast of California, United States. A man on the edge of the deck waves signal flags as a United States aircraft comes in for landing. Aircraft lands aboard on May, 26th 1924. Aircraft piloted by J.J. Demshock, ACMM , United States Navy, taxis along the flight deck.
A picnic for U.S. Army Brigadier General Billy Mitchell following his demotion to the post of a Colonel and an assignment to Texas as 8th Area Aid Officer. Guests eat food and have coffee. General Mitchell gives plates. The guests eat food. All officers are wearing civilians clothes. People sit on grass and eat. U.S. Army Major H. H. Arnold is standing. U.S. Navy Commander H. C. Richardson and General Mitchell peer through a hole in a doughnut (or donut). George Goodacre and Major Arnold standing on the grass. General Mitchell with a plate of food at the serving table. Lieutenant Phillips, Lieutenant Melville and Lieutenant David C. Kingle sit on grass beside two young women. General Mitchell serves Commander Richardson a large chunk of beef. Three men fill glasses from a jug. Bottles and a beer keg on the table. General Mitchell, in an apron and a chef's hat, sharpens a large knife. A crowd drinks around a bonfire. Major Arnold walks around filling cups from a porcelain pitcher and drinking from the pitcher. A group of men drink and pour beer on each other (during prohibition).
Funeral for Soviet Communist leader Mikhail Frunze. Streams of Russian mourners form lines in streets and pass by the body of Frunze, lying in State, on a catafalque in the Hall of Columns of the Labor Temple, Moscow. Family members are seen as well as honor guards of Soviet leaders, including: Lev Kamenev; Joseph Stalin; Mikhail Kalinin; and Mikhail Tomsky. Officials bearing the coffin of Lenin from the train station. Soldiers and citizens mass in Red Square, passing by the Mausoleum and Kremlin Wall Necropolis.
Soviet government sends high official Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin to visit Cossack regions in the Steppes of Russia. He receives warm reception from the local peoples who surround him near a cultivated field extending to the horizon. They present a gift, that he hands to an accompanying aide. He is next seen, being formally greeted by a cossack officer in uniform, with whom he exchanges salutes. Kalinin then speaks with several older Cossacks in uniform, including short swords (Russian Shasquas). A group of men stands behind them.
Industrialization and the rise of capitalism and organized labor in 20th Century United States. Stockyards, factories and farms in Chicago area. Elevated view over Chicago stockyards as cattle move through the stockyards. Mass production takes place in factories leading to rise of capitalism in United States. Views inside a rubber goods factory as rubber is shaped, heated, formed, nad then passed on to a sewing room. A room full of mostly young men is seen at belt-driven mechanical sewing machines working on the rubber goods which resemble rubber hats. A more advanced mechanized reaper or wheat processing machine in use on a farm. Scene changes to a man standing in front of giant tall chalk boards, perhaps at an commodity exchange or shipment scheduling and tracking company of some kind. Boards are marked "Liverpool" and "New Orleans Jobs" and "New Orleans" and "New York." Formation of American Federation of Labor by Samuel Gompers and efforts of Jack London to safeguard the rights of laborers in America. Two labor workers hold picket signs and protest.
Film opens with illustrations showing development of culture and the arts as America developed from earliest centuries. A crowded theatre scene and a lead woman opera singer on stage in a long dress during her performance, with sympony in the background. The audience applauds. Images of writers James Fenimore Cooper; Edgar Allan Poe; Ralph Waldoe Emerson; Nathaniel Hawthorne; and Mark Twain are shown. Children in a school yard, some wearing straw hats, are seen returning to the school house. Boy and girl children entering a one room school house in a rural area of America in the early 1900s. Views of early school rooms, students, and teachers.
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