Crowd lines sides of city streets and watches U.S. Army troops parade on a street, in a major city, mobilized to fight in World War 1. The parade includes a float facsimile of a warship, with several sailors and others riding it. Older veterans of previous wars march along near the float. U.S. flag hangs from a building along with another flag on which is written '104' ( possibly for the U.S. Army 104th Infantry Regiment). American soldiers marching in the rain along a street in a small U.S. town, preparing to deploy to Europe in World War I. U.S. troops walk through American crowd. Soldier carries a dog in his hand. Two soldiers stand near a railroad train and one displays a pocket sized American flag; both soldiers smile. American women pose with U.S. military band person who holds a sousaphone. U.S. troops board a troop train while snow falls. Soldier and a woman stand together hugging, in the snow, beside the waiting troop transport train, and the soldier kisses his sweetheart goodbye.
Several Ford M1918 3 ton light tanks are seen maneuvering at a testing ground in Michigan during World War I. Henry Ford and son, Edsel, are watching the tests. One of the tanks climbs an embankment and flips over backwards, landing upside down. A group of men gather around the overturned tank and attempt to turn it upright. Henry Ford stands nearby watching.
John D. Rockefeller, business magnate, co-founder of the Standard Oil Company, and philanthropist, is seen reading a newspaper. John Rockefeller playing golf. A woman stands in background and a golf caddie looks on. Rockefeller misses his golf putt and reacts.
Charles Evans Hughes (Supreme Court Justice, Republican presidential candidate, Secretary of State) poses for camera after arriving at a building by car. Doorman opens the car door for him. Next scene: In his office, President Woodrow Wilson writes at his desk.
Trucks of the U.S. Army 1919 coast-to-coast motor convoy are silhouetted against the sky as they drive across open plains in Wyoming. Closer view of the trucks raising lots of dust as they proceed along a dry dirt road. Convoy trucks descending a hill and crossing a small bridge over a creek. View of trucks driving away over semi desert raising dust as they proceed. A truck moving through dust partially obscuring visibility.
A truck in the U.S. Army 1919 motor convoy, across America, is seen with its right rear wheel broken through the road bed of a wooden bridge across a dry creek, in Whyoming. The truck was heavily laden, carrying a Holt tractor in its bed. Soldiers stand about as an operator backs the tractor out of the truck. They then examine the situation. Closeup of the truck wheel broken through wooden floor boards of the bridge. They hook the rear of the truck to the Holt tractor and pull it out of the hole in the bridge. Next, the convoy is seen stopped at the bridge and for a long way in the distance, as soldiers lay coiled planking (sort of pre-fabricated corduroy road) at the dry creek to facilitate passage by trucks around the wooden bridge. A truck begins to drive up the embankment on the planking, with difficulty, as soldiers help push it. Scene shifts to two trucks slowly climbing a narrow dirt road.
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