Panning views of Honolulu, Hawaii, from the Punchbowl crater overlooking the city. The camera pans from the East, where Diamond Head can be seen in the distance, and moves toward the South, with the Pacific ocean in the background.The camera stops panning about where the Ilikai hotel on Waikaki Beach comes into view. This process is repeated, again. The camera then reverses, panning back to the East and Northeast. It also repeats this pan again. Finally, a more distant view is seen followed by several fragmentary spurious shots.
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill visits British troops in Egypt during World War II. Prime Minister Churchill arrives and is surrounded by soldiers. He raises his hat. Churchill inspects British artillery. Artillery being fired. Churchill takes lunch with British airmen at a headquarters. He drinks from a glass. Churchill with South African Prime Minister General Jan Smuts and another man and woman with their baby in a pram. Prime minister Churchill plays with the child seated in a pram. The baby is wearing a hat with a "V" for victory pin on it. Churchill holds the child. Clip closes with public service announcement (PSA) with message encouraging viewers to "Help your country! Buy war bonds and stamps at this theatre" superimposed on an image of bomber aircraft and the Statue of Liberty.
A State Fair in the southern United States. A band playing music under a tent on a raised platform. The band includes accordion, violin, and two guitars. Two boys standing on the stage, watch the performers. Men, women and children in the audience, under a big tent, seated on chairs, watch the performance. Four African American men singing and a man playing accordion behind the men. The African American men with the band perform on the platform.
The city of Shanghai, China. Buildings in the city. Point of view shots from a moving vehicle passing through busy streets of Shanghai China heading first north along the Bund; over Garden Bridge; then returning heading south to Nanking Road and then heading along Nanking Road. Vehicles parked on the sides of a street. Buildings along the streets. A streetcar moving. People walking on sidewalks. Vehicles including trucks, bicycles, horse carts, moving on the roads. Vehicles crossing a bridge. Traffic including horse drawn carriages and vehicles on a road. Huge buildings on either side of the road. Various views of the buildings and people on the road. Men riding bicycles, buses, and other motor vehicles on the road. Close up view of a streetcar or trolley on the road. Several banners with Chinese letters displayed on the buildings. Chinese men pulling rickshaws on the busy street.
Views of the Cercle Francais Sportif, also called the French Club or France Club, after being newly rebuilt in 1928, in Shanghai, China. It was on the Route Cardinal Mercier (It later became the Jinjiang Club, and is now part of the Okura Garden Hotel Shanghai on Maoming Road South). The French tricolors fly from places on the building. French Club members and guests relaxing at the club. Men and women guests on the veranda of the club. The service staff are Chinese. Waiters walking about serving food and drinks. Views of men and women sipping their drinks. Children swim in an indoor swimming pool illuminated by natural light from above. They play with a large rubber inner tube. A group of men practicing archery on a lawn outside the building. A young boy wearing a pith helmet looks on. Two men throw horseshoes, or quoits. A few men and women seated at benches outside the club building.
Telephone lines laid along the Florida coast in the United States. Equipment in view during the extending of telephone lines along the Florida coast. A crane beside the train station in the town of Jewfish, Florida in the upper Florida Keys. A board on the train station building reads 'Jew Fish'. The crane at work. Florida in later years: View of rolls of telephone cables outside a building. Men laying telephone cables from a roll kept on a wheel cart. A small wooden building with a board that reads 'The New Telephone Bldg., Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company'. Another small building with a few boards. One of the boards reads 'Keeping Face With Orlands'. A large concrete building with a path in the front. Trees along the side of the path.
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