Crowd congregates in Paris streets and cheers on news of the armistice signed, bringing an end to World War 1. People read posters pasted on the walls of street. People drive cars on road through the crowd. Smiling, waving, happy French people hold flags of France in the background. A fountain in the background. People hold an effigy and set it on fire.
Military officers meet and pose in Vienna, Austria. General Harris, General Harries, British General Ewart and French General Dupont stand in uniform. They talk and pose. An African American soldier stands and talks to another soldier. An officer stands with other officers and soldiers at the garden in the premises of a building. They talk and pose. Among them is Colonel William Hayward, commander of the African American 369th Infantry, 93rd Division (15th New York National Guard; Old Fifteenth; or "Harlem Hellfighters").
Camera pans across old established Cemetery at Sedan, France. New wooden crosses of fallen soldiers are seen on outer edges of the cemetery, which is otherwise filled with older monuments and stones marking graves of local people. (World War I. World War 1. WWI. WW1)
Aswan high dam project in Nile valley, Egypt. Nubian children, among more than 100,000 citizens moved for the project, play in a village. A man cuts meat, another man stands besides him. Schools, health centers and buildings of new residential areas built to support the relocated civilians. People walk. Cranes at work to move statues on Abu Simbel temples. Statues of Ramesses Two and his Queen. Workers clean carved sections. Worker works on a statue.
Demonstration of new motor boat at Milford in Connecticut, England. Thomas Alva Edison Lake demonstrates Pontoon Hydroplane invented by him. Pontoons of boat. He demonstrates 'skipper turns' at its top speed. Rear float and adjustable angles for the wing pontoons on the boat.
Bandleader-Aviator, Roger Wolfe Kahn, son of multimillionaire banker, Otto Kahn, sits in a 1930 Bellanca CH-400 Skyrocket airplane. He taxis and takes off, flying from New York to Norfolk Virginia, where he makes a daring low altitude test of system for in-flight pickup of mail. He swoops to within a few yards of the pickup point, and snags a mail satchel suspended atop a building only 102 feet high, The mail pouch is delivered by air drop in a field, where it is picked up by a man who places it in a car and drives away. (Note: This actual airplane, Bellanca NC 7084, is being restored by its owner, Dan Cullman of Kent, Washington.)
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