Views of rail tracks,people walking on roads and Ford motor plant at Highland Park in background. Workers standing in lines and awaiting streetcars. Streetcar moving on tracks.
View of a man feeding chicken, a wooded house, a car parked in front of the house. A woman comes out from the house holding her child in arms. The woman gets in the car and drives away from the house. The car moves on rough road from house and head towards the good highway roads.
United States. A Ford Model-T pulls up and stops in front of a house. A family come out from house. A man, woman, and two girls in dresses get into the car. Other people standing on the front porch of the house wave goodbye to the leaving family. The car drives away toward they road.
A family sitting outside tents at their campground eating food at a table. A girl serves coffee to them from a coffee pot. A woman lounges on a hammock, reading a book. Two Ford Model-T cars parked near tents visible in background, one with a top up, the other top down.
Film starts showing Chief of Staff Paul Von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff surrounded by German military officers. German diplomats in formal attire including top hats standing outside a building. The German tricolor flag is raised over a building. Glimpse of the German Bundestag meeting in the Reichstag building. Political leaders seated around a table, include Gustav Noske and Philipp Scheidemann in the forefront. More politicians of the era seated at a table. Members of the German Communist Party (KPD – Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands) march slowly along a street carrying flags. Weimar Republic leaders dressed formally with top hats, stand together at an outdoor event. Gustav Noske and Philipp Scheidemann are in the center of the group. More political leaders gathered around a table. A professor speaking in a classroom with blackboard behind him and globe of world nearby. View from front of classroom showing it filled with attentive young men students. A gathering of Prussian soldiers in uniform including Pickelhaube helmets. They walk together. View of the Quadriga statue atop the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. Well dressed men walking in an alley way between two buildings. Closeup of men gathered to read the latest news posted on a bulletin board. An animated map showing German, France, Belgium, and Holland. A line of demarcation is drawn between Belgium and France. Berlin citizens cheer German soldiers on parade past the monument to king Frederick the Great at the east end of Unter den Linden. Germans in 18th Century military uniforms slow step in a parade watched by spectators also dressed in civilian clothing of the early period. More views of the German soldiers parading on Unter den Linden. Businessmen sit together and converse. They read newspapers.
Ocean liners Leviathan and Mauretania coming toward New York City pier. American Troops of the 27th Division disembarking from ocean liners, at the end of World War 1 service. Soldiers walking down ramp from USS Leviathan to dock.