Industrial Geography of the United States regarding mining of Anthracite Coal. Demand for coal in various parts of the world. Shipping of coal via export from United States to other countries in the early 1920s. Coal car lifter picks up coal car. Train carries coal to different regions of United States. Train passes through snow covered countryside in United States. Availability of Anthracite coal in United States.
Bootleg whiskey and liquor is brought up from an underground storage area via elevator and loaded onto a truck. A crowd watches along a city street as the liquor is loaded into the truck. Next scene shows the truck backed up to the edge of a lake or large body of water. Officials smash and break barrels and cans with spades and pick-axe to drain the illegal liquor. They smash beer bottles and empty barrels in the water. Final scene shows a group of men picking through the empty bins, bottles, and barrels, looking for leftover liquor. A man raises a bottle to his mouth to drain it. Another man finds a smashed can with some leftover liquor and he drains it into a jar.
Bonus Army Parade in Washington, United States. United States soldiers march on a street with flag. Band follows them. Soldiers with flags of United States march on the street followed by soldiers carrying flags of military forces. Soldiers follow them with placards in their hand. Cripple soldier gives placard to child. Soldiers with placard go into building.
Moving day for President Woodrow Wilson. Loading trucks park in front of house. People watch furniture and litter lying on the street. Men take furniture in house. Entrance of the white house.
First movie scenes of Chicago from air. Film maker Harold McCormick Jr. adjusts camera at flying boat. Pilot Witmer boards his Curtiss Amphibian flying boat. Two Curtiss Amphibian flying boat taxi on water. Passengers on the boat wave. Aerial scenes of Chicago coast line and downtown Chicago areas and landmarks. Scenes of building and factories of Chicago. Scenes of shipping facilities. Scene of naval fleet.
Aerial view of Chicago, Illinois. Aerial view of buildings and skyline in Chicago. Aerial view of Boston Store building and North American building in Chicago. Smoke arises from the buildings. Curtiss Amphibian flying boat in low fly-by to right.
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