Demonstration of various camouflage materials and techniques used by U.S. Army soldiers during World War 1. French women prepare Raffa grass for camouflage. They cut burlap into camouflaged screens. Women weave screens. These screen are made of chicken wire and burlap. Group of men mix camouflage paints. French men and women paint strips of burlap. Product placed on drying shed.
Demonstration of various World War 1 camouflage techniques employed by American soldiers. Burlap shuts off the sight of a street from enemy's field glasses. U.S. Army soldiers walk under the burlap screens. A soldier screens headquarters from observation by enemy aviators. Troops march on road.
Demonstration of various camouflages used by soldiers during war. View of overhead camouflage in World War 1 trenches. An American soldier walks under the screen in a trench. Camouflaged road in the background. U.S. Army soldiers carry artillery in the camouflaged trench. American soldiers load shells in artillery and fire.
U.S. President Woodrow Wilson inaugurates airmail service as it commences in the U.S. A Curtis JN-4 airmail airplane parked on the Polo field, in Washington, DC.. Van of United States Air Mail Service arrives. Mail is loaded into the airplane. Pilots Lieutenant George L. Boyle and Major Reuben H. Fleet standing beside the airplane conferring over a map. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, Mrs. Wilson, and Post-master General Albert Sidney Burleson inspect the airmail airplane that will carry mail to New York. . A man shows first official piece of airmail. He and his wife greets pilot. Wilson talks with pilot Major Reuben H. Fleet . Pilot George L. Boyle gets into airplane. Airplane takes off. Airmail airplane piloted by lieutenant Webb leaves New York from Belmont Park and takes off. The airplane stops at Philadelphia to pick up more mail. Mail is loaded into the airplane. The airplane takes off. It arrives in Washington. Mail is unloaded from the airplane. Pilot gets out of the airplane.
Traffic in Coney Island, New York. Views of a wide street showing large buildings, traffic, automobiles and pedestrians. Lamp posts along the street. People walking down a store-lined and concession-lined street. Brief view of the Whip and the Top boardwalk amusement park rides operating and spinning.
Entertainment in Coney Island, New York. Amusment park ride "The Top" is seen in operation: A large round tilting and revolving structure with cars moving along its outside track. Wide and close-up views of the ride. An elephant moving in the foreground. People enter the cars. The ride in operation.
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