The film titled 'Watermelon Contest' depicts men eating watermelon in the United States. Four African American men seated in a garden. They eat watermelon. Trees in the background. At first they seem serious. But they gradually turn the event into a comical farce.
The film titled 'Child of the Ghetto' depicts sorrows faced by a woman in the United States. Mix of dramatized scenes and actual footage. A woman weeps as she looks at her mother's dead body. A man consoles her. The woman sits in a chair in her house. Another woman comes and tells her to go out to work. At approximately 1 minute into the clip is seen footage of Rivington Street, in the lower east side of Manhattan, New York City, with immigrants crowding the sidewalks and push cart vendors and their carts jamming the curbs. She seeks work but is rejected several times. She finally gets piece work at a garment factory and takes a pile of clothes to her house. She sews clothes and goes to the factory to deliver the garments and get paid. The factory owner's son steals money from his father and accuses the woman of it. The woman runs from the factory and arrives at her house. A policeman arrives at her house. The woman runs from her house and hides in the country. A farmer sees her and takes her to his house. She started living at the farmer's house. The policeman comes to fish near the farmer's house. He sees the woman and recognizes her. She asks the policeman to believe she is innocent. He does, and goes back to fishing. The farmer and the girl are happy.
The film titled 'Claremont Theater' depicts a crowd coming out of a theater in the United States. People come out of the Claremont Theater's front door. Women carry muffs and wear hats. Men are in suits. Posters placed on either side of the theater's front door. People keep coming out. It seems they will never stop. A woman pushes a pram. A crowd gathered in front of the theater. A flag flutters atop a restaurant building. A man drives a horse drawn cart through streets.The theater was showing Edison Company films.
Chief of Staff of the Honduras Armed Forces Colonel Armando Velasquez Cerrato arrives in Washington DC. Military troops lined up on a field. Colonel Armando Velasquez Cerrato deplanes from an aircraft. U.S. Defense Department officers greet him. Colonel Cerrato receives military honors, including firing of artillery guns in salute. He inspects the honor guard troops.
A carrier aircraft launched by a steam catapult at sea in the United States. A U.S. Navy carrier aircraft taxis on a deck. Men hook the launch bar of the carrier aircraft to the steam catapult shuttle just before the launch. The aircraft takes off.
The Presidential Lockheed Constellation aircraft, "Columbine", taxis to the ramp at Washington National Airport, with number one engine shut down. It taxis with props on numbers 2,3, and 4 engines turning. President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Press Secretary, James Hagerty, step down from the aircraft and depart in a waiting car. A portal sign identifying Gate 19 of the Military Air Transport Command's Special Missions Squadron facility.
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