An Aeromarine 39-B aircraf, piloted by Navy Lieutenant W.M. Dillon, comes in for landing aboard the United States aircraft carrier Langley off the coast off California. He successfully lands the aircraft, marked AS663, on the flight deck of the ship.
International Newsreel uses printed press as source of information and entertainment in connection with telegraph news agency. Interiors of office in telegraph news agency with journalists and editors in press room or news room. A man using a vintage telephone, seated in front a typewriter, telephones an event from telegraph operators' room to newsreel editor. Newsreel editor and cameraman seen in newsreel news office as they receive word by phone and get ready to leave for location where event took place. They board a DH-4 biplane aircraft, carrying tripod and moving image camera (in protective box) to film the event.
Various events captured by newsreel cameramen. A large cargo ship on fire in mid ocean. Billows of smoke arise from the burning ship and from fuel burning in water. Views taken from small boat circling the burning ship. In another event, a rescue lifeboat or tender full of people is seen picking up one person, who hangs from its starboard side. People wearing life vests in a lifeboat attempt to climb aboard a rescue ship, in rough seas. Scene changes to a smoking volcano. Three men on mountain top. Volcano erupts. Newsreel cameramen set up camera on mountain terrain. Men run down hill. Volcano erupts in the background. Cameramen moves away with his camera. Lava advancing and engulfing and destroying a house in a village near the erupting volcano.
Various events captured by newsreel cameramen. Political rally broken up by gunfire. Crowd disperses and people run from area in front of Brandenburg Gate, Berlin. Men and women run across street. Building in the background. Smoke arises from explosion and gunfire in front of the Brandenburg Gate.
Newly renamed steamer, Venezuela, on its maiden voyage across the Pacific. The new steamer Venezuela leaves the port for its maiden voyage. The steamer moves away from the port. People on the port watch the steamship. 'Venezuela' written on its hull. Equipment aboard the steamer in view. The steamer at sea. Smoke emitting from the smokestack.
A steam locomotive pulling a passenger train of the Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad (acquired by Ford Motor Company in 1920) arrives at a station and passengers alight. Train leaves the station. Buildings at the station. A group of men on the station platform. Large water tank for servicing steam locomotives with logo of DT&I railroad on it. A porter wheeling a dolly passes on way to some buildings. Passengers standing on platform of train station. Railroad man switches several gondola rail cars to siding. A steam locomotive backing up pulls several Ford Motor Company gondola rail cars from a loading facility and then returns again. A local worker and his family are seen as he pushes two children in a swing. The family poses in front of a modest dwelling, and then go inside. One small house is a log cabin with chinking. The other is a simple wooden house or shack.