Film opens with singer on stage singing that he is a "double-duty dollar." He is backed by showgirls costumed as silver dollars. He explains that American dollars are now purchasing guns ammunition, planes, and tanks, to win the war. He alludes to how dollars will be used to fund the peace, after the war. An illustration shows schools, homes, and similar postwar investments in the country's infrastructure. Another shows futuristic cars, helicopter, and television sets. Scenes of pre-war highways filled with moving automobiles. Men playing golf. Gun club members in an outdoor shooting competition. A factory parking lot filled with automobiles and workers leaving the building at end of shift. (Message is that dollars no longer spent on war will revive private sector industry, again.) Film ends with appeal to "Buy an EXTRA War Bond TODAY!"
America and Europe during post World War 1 period of 1920s Sketches: American workers in factories. The U.S. President Warren Gamaliel Harding converses with a friend. President with other officials signs a paper. President Harding dies and the Nation mourns. Pallbearers carry coffin of the President. Sketches depict the various scandals under the Harding administration, including the Tea Pot Dome scandal. Vice President John Calvin Coolidge becomes President. Several sketches of the President . Sketches of rich people in America. People in a car. Automobiles driven out of a Ford factory. Sketch of the workers building a road. Various labor saving electrical devices. Sketches depict a housewife relaxing and people becoming better off economically. Ordinary people gamble on the stock market. Various pictures of American farmers suffering, as demand for food falls in the wake of World War 1. Economic and financial crises affect Germany. Hyperinflation and riots occur in Germany. The unrest gives rise to future leaders like Adolf Hitler in Germany and Benito Mussolini, in Italy.
View of oil drilling roughnecks in protective gear, including goggles. View from short distance of an oil drilling derrick, in wetlands, where plume of water and steam is shooting up explosively through the derrick structure. . A person is seen close to the derrick. Building and lake in background.
Illustration of how disease causing micro-organisms spread during day-to-day events. It is exemplified with the exchange of money with a cab driver. Transmission can also take place while turning the pages of book. The documentary is called - The Science of life, made under the supervision of the Surgeon General of U.S. Public Health Service. 1922.
Transmission of disease through some careless habits of the disease carrier is illustrated. Disease causing bacteria can be seen spreading through water glass and greeting each other. 1922.
Close-up views of hands of various workers performing jobs and tasks in the 1920s. Female hands working on typewriter. View of hands of a woman operating a manual typewriter. Hands of a man who is busy stacking, shuffling, and stapling papers with a large stapler. Hands of a man putting papers, post, or mail into mail slots in a mail room operation. A restaurant waiter carrying a tray on his shoulder. Hands at work washing windows and using a small squeegee tool to clean the windows. Hands operating the lift mechanism for a Haughton elevator in a building. View from inside moving car of hands on steering wheel of car as it parks.
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