Two U.S. 14"/50 caliber Mk 4 naval guns mounted on railroad carriers, are seen in a field in France during World War 1. A glimpse of U.S. Army artillery officer inside the control room of one gun. Armed sentry outside the gun. Navy gunners standing on platform abutting the control room. View from further back along the train, as Navy gunner on the platform cranks a handle raising the gun's elevation. Different view of the gunner on the platform cranking the elevation handle, lowering the barrel to near zero elevation and then back up again. (WWI. WW1)
Inauguration of United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Washington DC. Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt arrive at the White House to join President Herbert Hoover and Mrs Hoover in a ride to the U.S. Capitol. Mrs Roosevelt greets them as they come out of th e front door. United States President Herbert Hoover and elected President Franklin Delano Roosevelt sit in a car to go to the U.S. Capitol. Mrs Hoover and Mrs Roosevelt seated in the other car. Admiral Grayson, Chairman of the Inaugural Committee with Colonel Louis McHenry Howe seated in a car. Supreme Court Justices filling in. Mrs Roosevelt being greeted by Chief Justice Hughes. Franklin Delano Roosevelt with his left hand on the bible and right hand raised, takes the oath after Chief Justice Evans Hughes and becomes the President Of the United States.
U.S. Reconnaissance Unit marines receiving underwater training at the U.S. Navy submarine school, New London, Groton, Connecticut. Inside the Buoyant Ascent, Submarine Escape Training Tower, marines equipped with breathing apparatus and flotation collars, are seen rising to the surface of the tank. Glimpse of a submarine on surface of water. Inside the submarine, marines in a platoon, assigned to a team, are briefed by an officer. Then the NCO in charge, carrying his swimming flippers, leads his team into the escape trunk, for their first training mission. View of the marines as water rises around them. Then they are seen making buoyant ascents from the submarine, with bubbles trailing as they rise. View at surface as the team members reach it. The team swims toward shore, pulling their equipment in waterproof bags. They land on a beach, and sweep away any landing marks in the sand. Inland, a team member removes a submachine gun from its waterproof bag. He gives the gun to another marine, fully dressed in camouflage fatigues,
The use of Ford Tractors increases speed and production in the United States. Three men stand by Fordson tractor. Farmer Anderson sits in a rocking chair reading the Dearborn Independent. Two men throw and catch a baseball. Farmer uses the tractor drawn cultivator in corn field. Three teams of horses pull cultivators.
The use of Fordson tractors in the United States. Potatoes planted in a field with the help of tractor's aid. Farmer Brown and his family plants potatoes using the old method.
American President Woodrow Wilson heads for France to negotiate peace between Germany and Allies. U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain John W. Davis and his wife on a ship deck. John W. Davis looks through binoculars. Mrs. Gordon Auchincloss, Mrs. David H. Miller and Arthur Bullitt converse with each other standing on the deck. French Ambassador to the U.S. Jules Jusserand with his wife, G. F. Close and R. C. Sween, confidential secretaries to President Wilson aboard USS George Washington.
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