Count Felix Von Luckner visits Los Angeles, California, while on a "Peace tour," in July, 1927. He is famous for his exploits while in command of SMS Seeadler (Sea Eagle) in 1916-1917, during World War 1. He sits, posing while and artist sketches his likeness. Next, he is seen on the deck of the sailing ship, Vaterland, with his Swedish wife, Countess Ingeborg. They hold two dachshund dogs. The Count, in mufti, accompanied by Captain, Julius Lauterbach, strolls the deck of the Vaterland "inspecting" the crew. Camera shifts to closeup of the masts and rigging of the Vaterland, and then down to her hull. Von Luckner on the bridge commanding the Vaterland, which begins to move slowly. Starboard view of the Vaterland, with 4 main masts bare and only flying jib, inner jib, and Fore Topmast Staysail set. View on deck of the Vaterland, where Von Luckner, his wife, and Lauterbach watch U.S. Navy ships of the American Battle fleet, as they pass them. They pass a U.S. Dreadnought battleship. View from land as the Vaterland passes Los Angeles Harbor Light, aka Angels Gate Light, at San Pedro Breakwater in Los Angeles Harbor.
U.S. aviators of the 1st Aero Squadron pose in front of a Curtiss JN-3 airplane their base in Columbus, New Mexico, in 1916. The rest of their aircraft are lined up, parked, side by side. Scene shifts abruptly to views of camp below, from an airplane flying above it. Pilot is seen in open cockpit.
U.S. Army Cavalry moving across desert terrain in Mexico, during the Punitive Expedition against Pancho Villa. They proceed single file down a hill followed by pack horses carrying supplies. Closeup of the (only) Jeffery Armored Car Number One. (Built for evaluation, in 1916. It is armed with four .30 cal Benet-Mercie machine rifles and had two fully revolving turrets.) Here it is deployed in the Mexican desert. View of it coming along a dirt road, down a hill. Next, armed cavalrymen are seen running to their horses, mounting up and riding in loose formation. They are then seen in formations making a cavalry charge. A wagon train of covered wagons carries supplies across a bridge. Several views of such supplies in wagon trains raising dust as they proceed along dirt roads.
Ford Model T cars being driven out the exit door of the Highland Park factory, Michigan,circa 1916. Numerous Model T cars driving on both sides of a divided highway. The Ford Highland Park Plant, circa 1920. Panoramic exterior views of the Ford River Rouge plant and factory buildings, circa 1930. A Ford Freighter ship, docked at the River Rouge plant. A view of the home of Henry and Clara Ford, at 66 Edison Road (now 140) Dearborn, Michigan, in 1914. Sketch of children coming home from school, singing song from McGuffey reader school book. View of schoolroom with McGuffey readers on desk. Narrator relates story of Henry Ford trying to buy a McGuffey reader and being unable to obtain one. Narrator states that Ford realizes from this incident "the changes that are reordering his culture. The modes of life which Henry so loved are passing, disappearing into history." Street scene outside Ford Plant, during shift change, and street filled with workers. A car driving on empty road in Sudbury, Massachusetts. The historic Wayside Inn (immortalized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Tales of the Wayside Inn") which Henry Ford purchased in 1923, to preserve for posterity. View of the original Pennsylvania Railroad Station in New York City, circa 1912. View of crowded sidewalks and street on 5th Avenue, and other street scenes in New York City, circa 1920. Model T Ford cars driving in U.S. National Parks. A visitor feeding a bear from his Ford car, as a U.S. National Park Ranger stands nearby. People in Ford Model T, stopped by side of road to pick wild flowers. Two men remove a seat back from their Model T car to make a camper. Both men lying down in the car. Man carrying picnic basket from Ford Model T, parked beside a beach, where he joins the rest of his party on the sand. Children run along the beach, and stop to play with seaweed.
On Election Day, November 7, 1944, in World War 2, Americans are seen waiting patiently to vote. They stand in a long line extending down a city sidewalk next to brick and stone buildings. Views of several persons in the line. Scene shifts in flashback to the election of Woodrow Wilson, in 1912. Four men on horseback arrive at a polling place. Another travels to vote, in his 1910 Ford Model T truck. Change of time and place shows farmer arriving by horse-drawn wagon and walking to polling place past 1930s car and truck. A fully laden truck stops at a rural gasoline station, temporarily serving as polling place. American town residential street scene in the 1930s. Citizens gathering to vote at a polling place set up at a laundry shop, in the Bronx Borough of New York City. Views of various places in the United States, serving as polling places. Americans seen waiting to vote at various places, in the 1944 national election. Among the sites shown is Bridgeport Central High School, built in 1916, (which later became Bridgeport City Hall), at 45 Lyon Terrace in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Persons in various places, registering to vote, including actor Lewis Stone, actress Esther Williams, and USO entertainer, Bob Hope. Voter closing curtain behind him as he votes in a voting booth. Views of voters' feet, below curtains, as they vote. Various types of boxes. Newspaper headline speaks of the large voter turnout in millions during the 1944 election. Shipyard workers at end of their shift, are seen heading to the polls to vote.
Mule market in Memphis, Tennessee. Men sell mules on street. View from Overton Park in Memphis, with a view of the Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, opened in 1916, (now Memphis Brooks Museum of Art) among the trees, view of a lake with ducks in it, and various trees.
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