Mahatma Gandhi being arrested in Lahore, British India (present day Lahore, Pakistan). Many people gather on a street as Mahatma Gandhi goes to a prison following his arrest by the British authorities. Past events show him addressing a large gathering at a public meeting. A banner at the meeting reads ' We live in deeds not in years independence for all and ever '.
A successful flight from Paris to New York. An aircraft lands after the successful flight. Fire crackers burst. Pilots Captain Dieudonne Coste and Maurice Bellonte get off the plane. People surround them and greet them after successfully flying across the Atlantic. Coste and Bellonte at a ticker tape parade as crowds gather along the streets to welcome them after their great achievement.
While World War 1 was already underway in Europe,before the United States Air Service began to build up. Two U.S. DeHavilland DH-4 aircraft taking off. A formation of DH-4s in flight. A DH-4 upside down on the ground with soldiers all around it, including one sitting on a rock. Airplanes attacking a balloon aloft, which burns and plummets to earth trailing dark black smoke. A candidate pilot undergoing physical testing. Prospective Army pilots marching and on a flight line with JN-4 Jenny training aircraft. Cadet turns propeller of a Curtiss JN-4 training airplane and the engine starts. Formation of DH-4 aircraft in flight. Lumberjacks felling a giant spruce tree in the Cascade mountain forests of Washington State. Logs being transported by railroad to airplane factories. Men and many women working at an airplane fabricating plant.
People in elaborate costumes during Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Louisiana. Large statues or effigies on various floats. Krewe participants from floats throw Mardi Gras trinkets to spectators. Firecrackers alighted on the side of the floats.
Woman taxidermist, Emily Parker, interviewed at Catalina Submarine Gardens, in Avalon, on Catalina Island, California. Numerous preserved species of sea life are mounted on the wall behind her. She is working on a specimen of hammerhead shark. Next, Ms.Parker displays a preserved Tuna and several other species including a pair of so-called Flying Fish. she touches- up a billfish specimen and inspects a shark. (Note: Ms. Parker's husband, C.B. Parker, was a Taxidermist in Catalina. After he passed away in 1926, Ms.Parker continued his business. She was considered to be one of the first women taxidermists.)
Three men including Navy officers drive new horse power motorbike in a tank test in Los Angeles, California. Meter's needle moves. "Fairbanks" and "Springless" written on the meter. Boat drivers see back. A man stands near meter.
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