United States Ambassador to Great Britain Charles Dawes visits Old Home Town of his Ancestors. He is given a great welcome by City Fathers in Sudbury in England. Mayor Fitzgerald declares General Dawes a Freeman of Sudbury at the Town Hall.
A foldable automobile invented by a German man. Inventor of foldable auto carries front end of car on his shoulder. A woman helps him to connect rear end to front end. Foldable canvas, rather than metal, forms the chassis. The couple sits in the auto and drives away.
A fifteen month old baby Ramona Carpenter with her father in a garden. A house in the background. Her father tosses her in the air playfully and she performs tricks calmly and sometimes smiling. Point of view shot from father's perspective tossing the girl into the air playfully. She loops-the-loop into her father's arms. She is named as 'Rubber Ball Baby'. The toddler girl seen walking in the grass at her home.
Fritz Von Opel flies his Opel-Sander RAK 1 rocket propelled air plane. Fritz Von Opel sits in the cockpit of the Opel RAK 1 plane. Repeated trials fail to lift the plane. Finally the plane rises in air. Smoke trailing the Opel RAK 1 plane as it flies. Given the date, this might be a RAK 3, even though the RAK 1 designation is seen on the plane.
A huge Soviet Russian aircraft in flight above Valley Stream in New York. It is a unarmed Tupolev TB-1 (ANT-4) bomber, with lettering on side: "URSS-300", and was known as "Land of the Soviets" or "Soviet Country". The plane lands at Curtiss Field (also called Roosevelt Field that year) after completing a 13,000 mile journey from Moscow. A huge crowd tries to break the security lines to meet the airmen. Several cars parked on the airfield. Police try to control the crowds. The crowd rushes towards the plane. A police man riding a motorcycle. near the crowd, with the airplane parked behind.
Girls display latest styles of wooden dresses at Hoquiam in Washington. The wooden dresses are designed according to forest fashion. The girls walk down the road. Houses in the background.
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