Ku Klux Klan (KKK) members during a cross burning ceremony in the United States (possibly Stone Mountain Georgia but location is not confirmed). A U.S. Army soldier in uniform is seen at far left Members of Ku Klux Klan dressed in robes and masks move in a circle carrying lit torches. The U.S. Army soldier sets fire to a huge cross using a lit torch. He steps away from the burning cross. The fire soars up and across the cross quickly. The soldier and KKK members stand in a wide circle around the burning cross. They throw their lit torches in the direction of the cross, landing on the ground..
The Ford Plant in Detroit. Panorama of Ford Plants. Workers and automobiles outside a Ford Plant. Imperial Mine, Michigamme, Michigan. Ford iron ore mine buildings. Ford coal mines, Nuttallburg and Twin Branch, West Virginia. Kentenia, Pond Creek and Stone, Kentucky. West Virginia, supplies a low volatile smokeless coal. Coal mine and homes. Railroad coal cars drawn by locomotives. Lumber Iron Mountain and Sidnaw, Michigan. Lumbering Operations. Workers and automobile assembly line. Waste metal baled and melted with other metal. By adding this scrap steel greater strength obtained.
Shows several aviation "firsts" accomplished by U.S. Army Air Service aviators in the period from 1918 through 1924. A close formation of biplanes in flight. President and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson chat with Major Fleet, Officer in charge, on the occasion of the first air mail flight, inaugurated on May 15,1918 between Washington DC and New York.The mail is loaded into the Curtis JN-4 aircraft. Pilot in the cockpit. The aircraft takes off and in flight. Air Service. Mention of aviators helping spot forest fires. Smoke rising from forest fires and mountain ranges. In 1920, U.S. Army Captain St. Clair Streett is seen with some of his Squadron who flew four De Havilland DH-4 aircraft 9,000 miles, from New York City to Nome, Alaska. Two of the men play with pet dogs. Their itinerary is painted on the side of one of the aircraft, along with the names of pilot and mechanic (C.E. Crumline and J.E. Long). In 1923 the first non stop coast-to-coast flight was made in the Fokker T-2 aircraft. . A sign on the aircraft reads 'Army Air Service non stop coast to coast'.First Lieutenants Oakley O.Kelly and John A. Macready board the aircraft, at Roosevelt Field, Long Island, New York, on May 2, 1923. Their Fokker T-2 in flight. Their arrival at Rockwell Field, on Coronado Island (San Diego) California. In 1924, Lt. Russell Maughan is seen boarding his P-1 Hawk airplane at Mitchel Field, on Long Island, New York, and taking off , bound for Crissy Field at the Presidio, San Francisco, California. His goal is the first dawn-to-dusk, coast-to-coast flight. Views of his P-1 Hawk airplane flying over Manhattan, New York City.
Hot water springs found at Yellow Stone National Park in Wyoming USA. Sign board reads, 'Dragon Mouth Spring'. A tourist looks at the spring. View of a high speed river current originated from the mountains.
View of the Tower Falls at the Yellow Stone National Park in Wyoming, USA. Sign board reads, 'Tower Falls Height 132 feet'. View of the waterfalls emerging from the mountains
A documentary titled 'Story of Ford coal and coke' covers the daily routines of mine workers and family in Stone, Kentucky. View of residential areas of Stone, in middle of mountains,children playing,several people sitting in front porch while others standing in shade. Mine workers climb onto a railroad car and move towards the mines in mountains. Several men on small railroad cars carry lunch boxes along with them.
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