Mummers parade in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania The parade passes through streets of a city, primarily along Broad Street. A group of clowns appear on the street. They walk holding a banner reading: "Phila French Clowns". Artists perform an act on the street. Sidewalks are lined with spectators. Marchers in fancy costumes and decorative floats in the parade.
A sledgehammer pounds a fence stake into the ground. A plow is used to break the land of the Great Plains. A farmer takes soil into his hands and throws it back as it crumbles in his hands. Combine harvesters pulled by teams of mules harvest a large wheat crop. Wheat grain pours into a sack on a harvester.
Personnel classification and orientation as morale features. Shows and recommends films of Nazi German bombings, burning towns and dead civilians, in World War II. Stresses the need for esprit de corps. Officer addresses soldiers in a hall and discusses about the need to understand that why they fight. Depicts that the Commanding Officers should show war films of Nazi German attacks on people, to motivate the soldiers to fight for their Nation. The film shows the German planes in flight. The planes bombard on the land where the civilians reside. High altitude view of the city. People run to save themselves from the air attack. Dead bodies lay on the field. Fire and smoke due to bombarding. German flag on the flag pole. Soldiers march. The British soldiers prepare to fight the Germans. The British soldiers in airplanes. High altitude view of the wrecked city.
Several barges up on blocks at a boatyard near a river. Viewed from downhill, openings are visible between ribs in their lower hulls. Scene shifts to viewpoint above the barges. A river; a church; smoke stacks; and steel bridges are seen in background. The prow of one barge contains letters "USS." The American flag flies from mast of a boat docked in the river.
Two officials in President Wilson's Administration, seated at a table, conversing. Joshua W. Alexander, Secretary of Commerce holds a lighted cigar. The other answers a telephone call.
Artifacts used by former Hawaiian Royalty. A pair of thrones. A royal cloak and headgear. Royal crowns. Portraits of Hawaiian King David Kalekaua (or Kalakaua) and Queen Kapiolani. Painting of conflict (Perhaps an artist's interpretation of armed Americans coming ashore from the USS Boston,in 1893? ) Painting of a modern ocean liner underway at sea.
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