A Hungarian-sponsored concert in Berlin, Germany. Large Nazi German flag and Hungarian flag hanging above state. The concert is performed for war relief in World War II. A woman sings. People watch the performance. An orchestra plays in the background. Men and women perform and sing. Many closeup views of people in the audience watching the performance, including civilians and German military personnel in uniform. People applaud.
The role of women as active community members in Monroe, New York, in the United States. A young woman works with children and teenage kids clearing a lot that will become a new playground. They clean and remove garbage and debris, which is put into the back of a pickup truck with sign on the door "John C. Hunter, Monroe, New York". Young woman gets inside the vehicle and two boys climb into the back of the pickup truck to hold the trash down. The vehicle moves past on the road. People line up for voting outside a hall. A woman shops for clothes in a rummage shop or thrift store. Women examine lily plants in a garden nursery. A woman in an office talks to two Girl Scouts in uniform, and hands them some stacks of magazines. A woman stands near a church organ and sings in a church choir. A woman lying on a bed in a clinic donates blood, as a laboratory technician and nurse stand by. Other women seated at a table in a hall write information about voters as they show up at a polling place to vote. A woman enters a voting booth and closes the curtain behind her.
United States punitive expedition against Pancho Villa in Chihuahua, Mexico. Pancho Villa and some of his men standing and posing for camera. New recruits of the Mexican Revolutionists, in regular civilian clothing, marching with Villa's forces heading for Pancho Villa's camp. Buildings along the sides of a street. Trees in the background. U.S. Army soldiers fire artillery. They guard the railroad track so that no more supplies can be brought to Villa. Smoke from firing. American Army punitive expedition soldiers fire a Hotchkiss m1909 Benét Mercié machine gun.
Several officials of the new German government after World War I. Matthias Erzberger, Minister of Finance, stands outside a building. Dr. Edward David, German Minister of State, and one of Germany's delegates to the Peace Conference. He wears a straw hat and carries a cane. He climbs int the back seat of an open car and poses for the camera. Buildings in the background. Other man watch him. Gustav Noske, German Minister of War, stands outside a building. He carries a furled umbrella and removes dark-rimmed glasses to pose.
Teams of horses transport German 21cm morsers (heavy siege morters) along a road leading toward the front during World War 1. Gunners walk along beside them. Battery of the mortars being set up in a field by some houses near Mechelen (also called Malines) Belgium. The gun crews load and fire their mortars. Supplies are brought by horse-drawn wagon. Officers, soldiers, and some medical corpsmen (with red crosses on their sleeves) stand nearby as the battery of mortars fires. . (Note: The church shown, beginning TC: 1:28 is reportedly St. Joseph's, of the St. Joseph-Coloma parish on the southern outskirts of Mechelen/Malines, a city midway between Brussels and Antwerp. The church survived the war and still stands in 2014, although it is also reportedly in a bad state of repair.)
Former United States Secretary of Treasury, William Gibbs MacAdoo, opens the postwar 5th (Victory) Liberty Loan drive in New York City. A large crowd gathers, on Wall Street in the financial district, to watch the event. Decoration in the area for the purpose of celebration. MacAdoo addresses the crowd from a decorated podium. The scene is embellished by a large pyramid of German military helmets topped by a statue of Nike, the Greek Goddess of victory. An Army officer (not wearing headgear) addresses the crowd. A U.S. Army band, in uniform,is seated on steps, playing music. An Army bugler blows his horn from the balcony of a building. The Met Life Tower landmark skyscraper, located at One Madison Avenue, is visible behind him. U.S. Navy Admiral William Sims speaks to the crowd.
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