Bob Hope show at camp Enari in Pleiku, South Vietnam. Bob hope and troupe entertain the United States soldiers. Performer plays trumpet on the stage. Performer plays the saxophone. Performer plays trombone. Band accompanies them from the background. Soldiers sit in front, watch performances and click pictures of performers. (Vietnam War period).
Horace Brooks Marshall, 1st Baron Marshall of Chipstead, and Lord Mayor of London, joins United States President Woodrow Wilson, in his carriage. President Wilson's wife, Edith Wilson, steps into a carriage, and is joined by the Prime Minister's wife, Dame Margaret Lloyd George. A British admiral and an army officer join the ladies in their carriage. A change of scene, showing Horse Guards escorting carriages arriving at a port where a trawler (reportedly named, “Magnetic") is tied up at the pier. President Wilson, Prime Minister Lloyd George, and another man step from one of the carriages. Another carriage carrying Mrs. Wilson and Mrs. Lloyd George, arrives and the ladies step down and converse. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
During World War 1, King George V and Queen Mary visit American officers club and are received by Mr Walter Hines Page, United States ambassador, and Vice Admiral William S Sims in England. Officials stand at the stairs. Car arrives at a building. Guard salutes. Flags at the balcony. King enters a door with the officials. Crowd gathers and a dignitary addresses them. King and the ambassador stand and pose.
Slate states that Bulgaria's Black sea port of Varna is being shelled by Russian Battleships. However this is not noticeable in these scenes. Boats are tied up at the docks and men go about their activities, with no clear evidence of Russian battleships or shelling. There is a brief aerial view of a ship, next to a breakwater where a lighthouse stands. Smoke is rising from her stack. (World War 1; WWI; WW1)
United States ship Maumee (AO-2) is launched at Mare Island Navy shipyard in Vallejo California. Miss Janet Crose, sponsor, smashes bottle onto ship bow to christen the ship. Builders, dignitaries, and naval personnel wave and cheer from port as the ship slides down ramp into water.
Opening slate states: "The Railroad Strike, Scenes at the London Terminal and at the overcrowded bus and tram routes." People are seen walking about in a London train station after World War 1. Baggage is piled up on one section of a platform. Army officers climb onto an open car filled with luggage, and wave as they drive away. A large queue of people is seen at a bus station, where double decked buses are loading and discharging passengers. Women board a horse-drawn wagon as an alternate way of traveling. Back at the train station, Army officers help a woman from a car and then climb aboard it themselves with their luggage. A family sits atop a flat railway cart with luggage underneath. More views of too many people trying to get on too few buses. Scene shifts to Piccadilly Circus where pedestrians walk near the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain and the Criterion Theater.
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