A U.S. Department of Commerce film entitled "Voyage to America." Opening scenes depict ordinary life during rush hour in major city in the United States in 1963. People walking in what appears to be a large railroad station and then riding escalators to lower floors. People stepping from a subway door to a platform and others leaving a crowded train station. An official cutting a ribbon to open some place or event. Young women cheer leading for a political candidate. People attending a concert and others at an outdoor sports event. Crowds filling sidewalks to watch foreign dignitaries in two white cars. Republicans fill the Cow Palace near San Francisco in the 1956 political convention where President Dwight D. Eisenhower is supported for a 2nd term as President. Some "Stick with Ike" banners are seen in the crowd. Scene transitions to views of clouds and beautiful coastal images of America.
Newspaper headlines from 1876 note Kansas as a territory for pioneer settlement...."Farms and Homes in Kansas!" and "To the Black Hills" Farmers with their families in front of prairie homes. Barn raising. A village along the side of a river. School children. A child's coffin. Men drinking together. A string quartet. A man making violins. Railroad construction crews laying rails, clearing rocks, and building trestle bridges, including Chinese workers and laborers during expansion or railway to the west. European immigrants on ships and just arrived on land, possibly at Ellis Island. Logging camps and loggers cutting trees. Large scale farming and market. Coal mining and other mining activities. Child coal miners and child labor. Industrial steel forging. Factory with train switch yard. Immigrant ghettos in American cities. Immigrant women sewing piece work. Immigrant children.
Elementary training in Berea College, United States. Students in a library read books and make notes. They make use of modern equipment for experiments in a laboratory. The young students of astronomy look at the mysteries in the heaven. Students in a pump room are explained how running water is brought into their homes.
Vocational training given to students at Berea College in United States. A woman does embroidery. Women sew, weave and stitch in the classes. An old woman makes homespun yarn.
Soldiers of U.S. 5th Marine, 2nd Battalion with French Second Army soldiers at the Third Bourmont Training Area in France during World War I. U.S. troops in trenches. The troops enter a bunker. The soldiers come out of the bunker. The soldiers are wearing coats and hats due to cold weather. A U.S. officer plays with a dog. The troops carry guns with bayonets. A bayonet drill. The soldiers in trenches with bayonets in their hands. They march forward for the drill. They move out of the trenches and put the bayonet in a dummy. The soldiers practice again. The dummies are hanged from a rope. The troops practice on the dummies. A dummy in the center and the troops practice on it.
U.S. 5th Marine 2nd Battalion with French Second Army at the Third Bourmont Training Area in France during World War I. U.S. troops in trenches with rifles with fixed bayonets in their hands. A thin covering of snow is on the ground and it appears to be lightly raining or snowing. The soldiers come out of a bunker with gas masks. Some soldiers are already wearing the gas masks and others are hastily putting them on as they emerge from a covered trench into an open trench. The soldiers walk in the trenches. A medical unit passes by in a trench with red cross armbands and one soldier carrying a folded up stretcher or litter. The troops move out of the bunker and stand near a cooking cart or kitchen cart with a boiler. They are handed large vats of hot water, soup or other liquid. Scene changes to an outdoor ceremony with many civilians present, including many women. A French soldier stands nearby as the civilians pull white ribbons from an evergreen tree that is covered by the decorative ribbons. An American Army soldier helps reach a ribbon high in the tree to hand to a civilian.
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