557 Midshipmen's graduation ceremony at the Naval Academy in Annapolis. Maryland. Admiral Leahy presents diplomas to the graduates during the ceremony. Students in line come to receive the diplomas. Louis H Roddis gets the 'Best Student' honor.
A gas explosion near a school in Barberton, Ohio. Wreckage due to the gas explosion. Crowd watches the building. A blackboard on the floor. School children slid to safety on the tilted floors of the building.
Scenes from the 9th annual National Air Carnival in Birmingham, Alabama. Pilots perform daring stunts in a U.S. Navy aircraft and a 1910 airplane. The aircraft fly in formation. Joy Hodges crowned as Queen of the meet. A glider lands on an airfield. A pilot seated inside the aircraft.
Indian horsemen perform stunt in Keller, Washington. Four Indian horsemen race down from a high mountain. One horse falls in a steep area. They leave a dusty trail as they descend from the steep mountain at high speed. A man congratulates the race winner.
Film 'History of Airplane' shows the early aircraft in United States. Early model aircraft at Professor Langley's aerodrome. Monoplane Flying machine takes off from the aerodrome. Aircraft in flight on water surface. Curtiss Pusher biplane in flight. Types of early aircraft parked on ground. Pilot seated in cockpit of aircraft. A group of men works on an early aircraft. Curtiss Aircraft stationed on field.
The background of World War II. German Hitler Youth children march with rifles, flags and a band beneath a camp entrance named Nordmark Lager 1935. Flag with Nazi symbol. Japanese flag and Japanese youth march in military exercises, followed by teenage Japanese forces. Italian fascist troops in uniform march in Torino Italy led by a band. Views of various German and Nazi forces parade and goose step in various cities. Units include brownshirts, goosestepping Storm Troopers, Wehrmacht. Civilians give a salute. Mostly sad looking men women and children watch the parades. The world globe. U.S. Capitol Building in Washington DC. French, Japanese and United States dignitaries attend the Washington Disarmament Conference or Washington Naval Conference at Memorial Continental Hall in Washington DC in 1921. View of the Washington Naval Treaty naval fleet reduction treaty book with signatures on it. Officials sign the Nine-Power Treaty that guarantees the integrity of China (per the John Hay "Open Door Policy"). Japanese delegation is shown at signing ceremony for the Nine-Power Treaty. Next scene shows 1928 signing ceremony in Paris of the Kellogg-Briand Pact renouncing war as a means of settling international disputes. French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand is seen speaking, and American Secretary of State Frank Kellogg is also seen at the treaty signing which was signed by 47 nations including Germany and Japan. In a 1930 scene, U.S. Secretary of State, Henry Stimson hands the London Naval Treaty to President Herbert Hoover. Scene of a U.S. Navy ship being blown up and scrapped in accordance with the treaty terms. View of American citizens in small town parades with floats marching as anti-war and isolationist groups.
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