An officer of Selective Service System speaks about its requirement and functioning. The officer, sitting at his desk speaks about Selective Services System. He emphasizes need of strong armed forces and quick mobilization of forces. He lays stress on achievement of adequate arms strength.
An officer of Selective Service System speaks about its functioning and its effects. Military soldiers selected by Selective Service System march in a parade ground with rifles. Various activities by these soldiers. Two such soldiers sit on their beds in their barracks talk to each other.
Sequences from a melodramatic presentation. A girl sits near her mother and weeps. A Native American Indian man arrives and takes the mother into a forest. In the forest a group of men walk with arrested husband of the woman. The Indian man and woman try to convince them that the husband is not a murderer.
America in the World War 1 years, before and during the U.S. involvement in the war. View of Woodrow Wilson in academic robe and cap, as President of Princeton University. Steel mill with stacks belching smoke. Workers tap an open hearth furnace in steel mill. Children on a city street dancing and being sprayed with a fire hose to keep cool in summer. Boy hopping over the backs of his friends. Boys seated on a bench. Scenes from early motion pictures, interposed with images of Uncle Sam from Army recruiting poster: They are rapid montage comedy and stunt scenes, including Keystone Cops chasing fugitive; cars racing, gangster shootouts from cars; automobile hijinks; men raising barrier at railroad level crossing while a woman is left dangling from the raised crossing gate; car races and crosses railroad track in front of rapidly approaching locomotive; comic car chase down; line of 3 open top cars racing over an edge into a deep ditch, a motorcycle taking flight off of a road and into a river; a man waving warning flag frantically at a blasting site; The Cunard Ocean Liner ship, RMS Lusitania, underway; Newspaper front page about torpedoing of the Lusitania. American soldiers boarding troop ship for France in World War 1; View of the troop ship deck filled with U.S. soldiers. Various scenes of U.S. troops in the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) in France during World War I: amid war torn ruins and destroyed buildings in France; firing French 75s and heavier artillery; soldiers charging across no-man's land; French and American soldiers caring for wounded behind the lines and in trenches of the battlefields; soldiers placing helmets and identification cards of fallen soldiers on rifles that are inverted, bayonet into ground.
Development of early airplane. A Wright model aircraft flies close to ground. Aviator Lincoln Beachy, the first stunt pilot. He drives a plane low over a runway. He walks out of the plane fastening his crash helmet on head. A stunt man walks on wings of a biplane in flight. Man hangs by legs by from wing position, upside down in an Curtis JN6HD advance trainer type aircraft.
Development of early airplanes. One of many machines developed as a rival to the Wright biplane. An odd- shaped flying machine attempts to take off in a field. Twin wings with rudders makes it a combination helicopters and aircraft.
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