Underwater view of missile being launched from a U.S. Polaris submarine. Huge amount of bubbles, foam and steam form around the missile as it emerges from the submarine firing tube. Missile breaks surface of sea, shrouded in water, foam and steam. Cascading foam reaches the camera and completely covers lens.
Polaris submarine, with some crew members on deck, cruises on surface into harbor, where it is met by tug boats, which manuever it along a river. several people watch from the shore. Tugs move the submarine close to a pier, under a large derrick. A crewman throws a line from the sub to the pier. Then the submarine is made fast with several lines.
A depiction of episodes in the life of The First Lady of the U.S. Grace Coolidge. Grace Coolidge on a shopping trip to New York. People watch as she emerges from a vehicle. Grace Goodhue Coolidge during the trip. Grace Coolidge knitting in the White House in Washington DC.
A photo sound interview of U.S. Coast Guard Captain and a seaman.They pose and are interviewed standing in front of a wooden garage-type building near a river. Cinematographer's camera, on tripod, is cranking automatically, as he checks the framing occasionally.He wears a headset. A type of microphone stands in front of the subjects.Several civilians and Coast Guard officers in uniform look on. An automobile is parked on the street behind the onlookers. A van parked on the bank of a river with the name 'Pathe Sound News' and 'RCA photophone' painted on it. A tug boat is docked behind the van. Buildings on the other side of the river.
A spectator sits on a lamp post to watch soldiers of New York's 6th National Guard Division parade on a street in Manhattan, New York City, following their mobilization for the U.S.Punitive Expedition in 1916. Locomobile Armored cars of the 1st Armored Motor Battery, of the New York National Guard move along a roadway, followed by trucks carrying soldiers and automobiles and motorcycles. Spectators, including girls with flowers, watch from the roadsides. Scene shifts to open platform train station, where National Guard troops, with shouldered rifles, march onto the platform, next to a parked empty passenger train The platform is crowded with spectators and well wishers. Another scene shows a train filled with National Guard soldiers leaning out its windows, waving at friends and loved ones. Closeup of soldiers leaning out the windows of a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger car. Two of them lean out to hold babies and kiss them goodbye. Scene shifts to dusty outdoor rail yard, where army horses are being readied to board boxcars. Closeup of fenced corral in which horses are guided for loading. Huge numbers of horses are herded by cowboys into corrals. A group of National guard soldiers stand on a rail bed and wave and smile for the camera. Army wagons are loaded on flat cars in a train parked behind them. Next, a large contingent of National Guard troops is seen marching onto an Army base.
Film opens showing exterior of the Saint Louis Coliseum decorated with patriotic bunting, and crowds of entering during the Democratic National Convention, June, 1916. Closeup of New York politician, Al Smith, doffing his hat and conversing with another delegate. Closeup of President Woodrow Wilson in an open horse-drawn carriage, with his wife, Edith Bolling Galt Wilson. View of Wilson's Shadow Lawn mansion in New Jersey decorated in patriotic bunting. A crowd fills the surrounding lawn. President Wilson stands with others on the porch, including Vice President Thomas R. Marshall and Treasury Secretary, William McAdoo. The crowd is cheering and men wave their hats in celebration. Senator Ollie James, of Kentucky, Chairman of the Democratic Convention (just convened) makes a few impassioned words of introduction for the re-nominated President Woodrow, who then steps forward to speak as the crowd cheers and waves. Closeup of President Wilson delivering his brief acceptance speech to run for another term as President. Closeup of William Jennings Bryan, followed by view of Bryan with another politician reaching over the rear rail of a railroad train car to shake hands with well wishers as they prepare to depart.
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