Delegates of The Pan American Highway Commission visit Chimney Rock Park in Rutherford County's Chimney Rock, North Carolina. View of commission cars and buses on winding mountain road approaching the park. Commission delegates seen climbing the wooden, terraced stairways to the top of the 315 foot Chimney Rock granite monolith. View of the Broad River from atop Chimney Rock, before the dam was built on it by the Morse family of Carolina Mountain Power Company to create Lake Lure. Views of the valleys and mountains near Chimney Rock.
Demonstration of the American Air Force against naval vessels of battleship class operate from temporary bases. American airmen prepare 1100 pound bombs. Men assemble tail section of a missile. Airmen check two 1100 pound bombs attached beneath an unidentified plane. Airmen attach a 2000 pound bomb to underside of an aircraft. General Mitchell and an airman crouched beneath the plane look at the 2000 pound bomb. Navy cutter type vessel, the San Mihiel, anchored in sea. Observers on the San Mihiel include General Pershing, Davis, Admiral Shoemaker Assistant Secretary of War and General Patrick Chief of Air Service. Four of them stand on the deck of the cutter vessel. Battleship USS New Jersey anchored. Bombs strike near ship. Bomber flying 175 miles from Langley Field score five direct hits with six 100 pound bombs from an altitude of 11,000 feet. Views of bomb strike on USS New Jersey. A smoke curtain is dropped by a bomber from an altitude of 1000 feet. An aircraft in flight in line with the New Jersey lays a smoke screen across the water. Smoke curtain obscures sight of the battleship. Bomb strikes near and upon the battleship USS Virginia. Direct hits scored by 1100 pound bombs on the deck of USS Virginia.
View from a sight-seeing boat on the Hudson River at New York City, showing Grant's Tomb on a bluff above, circa 1919. (The tomb of President Ulysses S. Grant, in Riverside Park was completed in 1897. In the background, to the North, can be seen the Claremont Inn and Hendrik Hudson apartments. Following a slate reading "Hudson River," the film captures the scenes as the boat moves south along the Hudson. Grant's Tomb is still seen at the extreme north end of the view. But a cluster of tall apartment buildings dominates the bluff above the river. Closeup of a U.S. Pennsylvania-class Armored Cruiser anchored in the Hudson river, with small boats around it and men boarding her from them. Apartment buildings on Riverside Drive in the background. View progresses close to Manhattan Island, where Pier 7 of the U.S. Army Transport Service is seen with ships docked on either side. A docked ship emits heavy black smoke from one of its funnels. A commercial ferry boat passes in front of the camera vessel. More views of ocean-going ships docked on the Hudson river side of Manhattan. Smoke is coming from some of their stacks. The Hudson Terminal with the Singer Building and City Investing Building in the background. The Singer Building tower dominates the center of the view and the taller Woolworth Building is seen to its left (North), at 233 Broadway. Next are views of the Battery on the tip of Manhattan. The large low round structure in the foreground is the Castle Clinton housing the city aquarium. The prominent tall building behind it, to the left, is the Whitehall building at Battery Place. As the camera pans south around the tip of Manhattan, some sight-seeing boats are shown, docked at the waterfront.
A Sugar Bowl Classic match in New Orleans between University of Georgia and University of North Carolina. Huge crowd gathered to watch the match. Players seen on the field in the rainy weather. Players seen in line of scrimmage. Georgia Bulldogs wins North Carolina Tarheels. Scores are 20-10.
A football match held at West Point, New York. The football match played between the Army team and North Carolina State University. The match in progress. Players at the line of scrimmage. A huge crowd seated in the spectator area. The crowd cheers. North Carolina State University's Wolfpack are defeated in the match. The Army team wins with a 27-7 score.
A football match is played between Oklahoma and North Carolina at Sugar bowl. Oklahoma, also called Sooners win over North Carolina, also called Tar Heels by 41-28. A crowd of 80500 witness the match.
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