Events during the Paris Peace Conference. Dignitaries seen waiting outside Trianon Palace Hotel (1 Bd de la Reine, 78000 Versailles, France). United States President Woodrow Wilson arrives in a motor car. He is greeted by the American Advisor of the Supreme War Council General Tasker Bliss and United States Diplomat Henry White. People standing outside Trianon Place Hotel. German diplomats arrive at the Hotel. French guards and motor cars seen.
United States First Lady Mamie Eisenhower holds a floral replica of a Series E 100-dollar Savings Bond. She looks at the floral arrangement. The floral replica is presented for investment in the saving bond for the future of the United States by Mrs. George Humphrey, wife of Secretary of Treasury. They are accompanied by Mrs. Harman, Chairman of the Committee.
People gather to watch Bicentennial Parade in United States. Various Soldiers march holding flags in their hands. Cameramen take photographs of the event. A large float from the Washington Star newspaper decorated "76"and "Birthday" written on it and a large eagle bird. United State Marine Corps honor guard and band pass by and salute at the Presidential reviewing stand..People sit on the chair and watch the event. Army, Navy, Air force, Marines, Coast guard units march in parade.
Film notes 35th anniversary of Wright Brothers' first flight and reviews history of transportation and advances in transportation brought about by railroad and aircraft. An animated map of the United states before the advent of mechanized transport methods. It illustrates the difficult and long overland journey to travel from the East Coast to the West Coast. Travel by horse and wagon over the Santa Fe Trail in 1849 is recreated in a brief film clip. Next, a locomotive is shown pulling a passenger train at high speed along a railroad at the base of a mountain. Animated map charts fairly direct path from Coast to Coast, taking only 4 days by railroad. Next a nearly straight course is traced across the map illustrating the path of an airplane taking only seven and a half hours for the journey. Change of scene shows aerial view of Howard Hughes' Lockheed 14 Super Electra Special, Model 14-N2 ( NX18973), christened "New York World's Fair 1939," in flight over New York harbor with the skyline of Manhattan, New York City in the background. Camera follows the plane as it passes over lower Manhattan. The Empire State building is seen prominently with other skyscrapers below the aircraft. This was filmed, on July 14, 1938, as Hughes and his crew were returning from Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Floyd Bennett Field, on Long Island, at the conclusion of their around-the-world flight (circling the Northern Hemisphere) from July 10 - July 14, 1938.
Crown Prince Alexander of Serbia welcomes French General Pau at a ship in Serbia. They shake hands. They talk amongst themselves. General Pau meets officials on a railway station in Bucharest. He salutes the officials. Next scene is in the United States two months later: Boys and young men march in a crowded Lewisohn Stadium, at the College of the City of New York (CCNY) on June 23, 1917, during a ceremony to honor Prince Ferdinando of Udine, head of the Italian War Commission to the United States.
Signs on a board at beachhead in France. "Water point", "Collection and clearing station" indicated by the signs. United States military policemen directs vehicular traffic on the beach. Heavy traffic on the beachhead. United States soldiers carrying full field packs walk on the field.
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