Mexican Rurales unit demonstrates a mounted charge on a field. They charge toward the camera and then away from the camera. (Edison Company, 1898)
Farmers harvesting corn in a Mexican countryside. A spotted cow stands beside the farmers. A Mexican woman and her daughter walk together in the field. A farmer walks beside a donkey carrying a girl with baskets beside a road in Mexican countryside. People traveling beside a road in Mexican countryside. A woman rides a donkey with baskets. A Mexican farmer, wearing a white hat, beats fiber out of a plant, possibly agave, ‘henequen’. A blond tourist, wearing a black sheath dress, pets a puppy nearby.
A Church in view. People with covered heads shop in the vegetable market. Vendors sit in shade. Jeeps and cars on a road. A man passes by a pyramid. Crowd in a busy street.
Russian politician Mihail Ivanovic Kalinin together with members of his office staff works with persons presenting documents that he inspects. He inspects papers from a man and converses at length with him. Kalinin at his desk with papers, and at a podium speaking, with handful of papers. In separate scene, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, in plain brown uniform, addresses a group of similarly dressed men.
Study in which Trotsky was attacked by Ramon Mercader. A wounded Ramon Mercader in hospital bed. Close up of a knife found at the scene. Journalists and police gathered to hear the latest news. Leon Trotsky dying in hospital bed. An ambulance leaves police headquarters. A crowd peering through metal gates. A gathering of photographers with cameras. (World War II period).
Officials of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service Border Patrol during their routine patrol. Patrolling car in dry desert along the border. The officers observe impressions of the wheels of a unknown vehicle in the sands. The commander and his subordinate walk along the track of impression and observe keenly for any clue. Close up views of the officers, uniforms, badges.