Mix of dramatized and actual footage. Invention of telephone leads to an era of urbanization, industrialization, mass production, capitalism and more employment in United States. Dynamite explosion at a hillside making way for telephone wire network expansion in America. Workers employed in electric bulb and telephone manufacturing plants. Views of networks of telephone polls. Early telephone switchboard operators in an operations center. People in homes using early two piece telephones.
The mills of Ohio Quarry Company in the United States. A machine is used to saw out sidewalk flagging from the sandstone. Rough curbing department show methods of splitting sandstone into blocks. A crane is used to bring in the sandstone. Men hammer large nails into blocks to split them. The split block is lifted and put aside with the help of a crane. Men working on sandstone blocks.
The film titled 'Claremont Theater' depicts a crowd coming out of a theater in the United States. People come out of the Claremont Theater's front door. Women carry muffs and wear hats. Men are in suits. Posters placed on either side of the theater's front door. People keep coming out. It seems they will never stop. A woman pushes a pram. A crowd gathered in front of the theater. A flag flutters atop a restaurant building. A man drives a horse drawn cart through streets.The theater was showing Edison Company films.
Depiction of 1889 Oklahoma land rush with a mass of claim seekers racing across land on horseback and in covered wagons to claim land. Reenactment of frontier claim seekers submitting their claim papers to a clerk in an office. Actual footage of pedestrians and traffic on a busy city street in the very early 1900s. Reenacted scene of early horse drawn trolley or street car. A man and woman riding on a tandem bicycle built for two. Early but reenacted footage of people on a bicycle built for four riders. Actual footage of a very early automobile race in the 1910s or 1920s. Views of a Ford automobile assembly line with new vehicles being assembled. The body of a new car is lowered into position on the chassis. Wheel rims run down a track into place on an assembly line. A car operating on a street.
American woman washes clothes. Two tubs are kept on a platform. Water squeezer with two rollers that roll with the turn of a lever that is attached to them. Water squeezer is attached to two supporting wooden blocks that in turn are attached to the platform.
American woman milks a Guernsey cow. Dry hay lies before the cow. Legs of a dog are seen in background.
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