U.S. Navy aircraft on air station in United States. Observation Tower on airfield. Signals given to guide and warn aircraft. Aerographer checks weather. Aircraft mechanics work on aircraft. Bomber aircraft towed from water. Training given to students at Naval Air Station. Aircraft with dual controls used in training students. Pilots and co-pilots in cockpit of aircraft.
The legislative and maritime history of the U.S. Merchant Marine. The Maritime commission is created. A ship underway at sea. Men gather at a dock. A man watches through binoculars. The U.S. Merchant Marine Academy is opened at Kings Point in New York. Seamen are trained in the academy. They are also trained at the Maritime Service Training Schools. The seamen are given navigation and gunnery training. They are also trained in techniques of cargo handling. Men standing in uniform on the dock. They load supplies onto a ship and clean machinery. Men working on a control board. Men in a class room. An officer instructs them. They also learn to prepare food in a kitchen. They learn the work of a radio operator.
Men at a harbor in the United States. A ship docked in the harbor. U.S. Navy personnel aboard the ship. Some men standing near the ship on the dock. The ship leaves the harbor and gets underway at sea. Smoke from the ship stacks. Mountains in the background.
The working of the weather bureau in the United States. The U.S. engineers and members of the weather bureau work in close cooperation for weather forecasting. They coordinate their activities for gathering the data relating to weather. A map locates various places. Animated map depicts the route and the method of their working. A woman talking on phone. The interior of the office of the weather bureau. The employees working in the office. They work for the collection, recording and dissemination of the information. The engineers working near a dam. Men, aboard a special boat working to adjust dam gate settings. They work for the collection of information and weather forecasting as the Ohio River level rises. Smoke from the stacks of the ship anchored nearby. View of the Chris Greene paddle wheel steamboat (sternwheeler) underway near a a dock area on the Ohio River, on route to Cincinnati.
A U.S. Army officer instructing new soldiers in the United States before their deployment in World War I. Soldiers seated at an outdoor lecture area. The soldiers listen to a lecture as an officer writes on a blackboard.
The United States Naval Academy in the United States. The midshipmen marching in formation on the grounds of the academy. A few middies holding flags. The officers at the reviewing stand. The middies seated on chairs. An officer addresses them.
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