Men standing at the facade of the Ford Motor Company Plant. Ford Model-T cars being driven out from the building in Highland Park, Michigan.
People in a camping trailer in the United States. A mountain valley. An automobile being driven. The automobile pulls a small trailer. A group gets out of the automobile. Men take out camping gear from the trailer. They unfold the sides of the trailer. Men unfold a tent. The group seated in the tent eats. A car and a tent with its flaps closed.
Sketches of World War I. Sketches : U.S. president Thomas Woodrow Wilson. Trench warfare. Rail guns and heavy artillery. Explosions on the land. Battle of Verdun. Battle of the Somme. Soldiers of both sides lying dead on the ground. Soldiers run with artillery into the trenches. Cemetery. British tanks. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson reads casualty reports in newspaper. British troops blinded by mustard gas. The German and the British newspapers. President Wilson sends advisor Colonel Edward M. House to plead for peace without victory. U.S. Presidential election. The campaigns during the elections in America. President Wilson is peace candidate. Charles Evans Hughes, backed by Theodore Roosevelt, is war candidate. Members of the army and navy league protest on the streets. Women holding a sign that reads 'Real patriots keep cool'. German Americans favor the German war cause.
Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, Commander of the German Navy at the outbreak of World War 1. He exits a taxi cab in Berlin, Germany. He pays the driver. Two Berlin city policemen walk pas the camera. Von Tirpitz turns and walks away from the taxi, crossing the street.
A large crowd gathers to protest against rising prices and inflation in New York City, as prices increased during World War I wartime assistance production for allied nations. People show banners. A large banner reads: "America First. We appeal to you for mercy and justice. Our children are starving. Come down with the prices." A banner reads 'We want bread'. Women stand with children in strollers and baby carriages during the protest. A line of women and children march as families in the protest rally.
View of a railroad marshaling yard in the United States, filled with idle box cars. The cars had been idled due to the German U-boat campaigns affecting maritime commerce from the United States to its allies in World War I.
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