Joyland Amusement park at Wichita. School children get on a toy train which leads to the school. Train crosses a bridge. Children enter the school.
Portola, California: A work train crashes through a trestle in a freak lumber country accident. The wrecked train over the damaged trestle. The wrecked engine and cars balanced on the trestle. A man works on the trestle.
Preparations for war in Japan during World War 2 period. Japanese laborers work hard in various factories. War production workers creating war materiel, armament, airplanes, tanks. Men and women at work in war production factories, together with child labor. Japanese troops mobilize and prepare for World War 2. Japanese soldiers on parade and Japanese tanks seen passing in review. Anti-Japanese propaganda. Japanese children being trained and doing various physical exercises. Japanese young boys perform drills and war combat training, calisthenics, and classroom testing. Boys wearing only goggles receive some kind of light therapy or ultraviolet or sunray therapy. Japanese youth and soldiers learning various martial arts (possibly Kendo or BÅjutsu) and hand to hand combat. War in Manchuria. Newspaper headlines show the attack of Japan on Hong Kong and Corregidor. Japanese soldiers seen fighting in wars. Scenes of war devastation and dead civilians in Manchuria and various areas where Japan has attacked. Bodies loaded onto carts and dead Chinese civilians in streets killed by Japanese. Japanese officer leading Japanese solders in a banzai cheer.
A film titled 'Bob Hope at the Jungle Training Unit'. American comedian Bob Hope arrives by a jeep at the camp. He wears a helmet and a camouflage suit. A sign reads 'Headquarters Unit jungle training center.' He observes a soldier firing a machine gun from the hip. He attempts to do the same as men and women in camouflage suits look on. (World War II period).
United States President Woodrow Wilson standing on a city street corner with a group of men, in January, 1916. They are all dressed for the cold. The President wears a fur collar coat and woolen gloves. Next, a large group of people is seen assembled around a building. Change of scene shows President Wilson and First lady Edith Wilson standing on the back of a railroad train. She is bundled up in a fur coat. Wilson is holding his hat. Mrs. Wilson leaves the platform and goes back into the rail car. The President says a few words from the platform. At about this time, Attorney General,Thomas Watt Gregory is seen far to the President's left (at right of picture). While the President and his party stand on the train platform, one member of the group checks his watch frequently, as if concerned about keeping their schedule.
A car arrives at a railway platform having, oddly, just descended a flight of stairs. Lights at the platform. Several men stand in groups at the platform. Many men emerge from the car. The last man takes out his luggage and boards a train. Men shake hands with him as the train departures. Boys stand by on the railroad station platform and watch and wave also.
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