Scenes from Washington DC riots following death of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Military and civilian vehicles on a street with a building in the background. Soldiers around military trucks. Two soldiers look at a paper. Smoke rises from a building. A store on fire.
Elephants are seen drinking water trough fed by a large water tank, at the start of the film. They are in the vacant lot of a town in the United States. A circus worker is seated on a wagon in their midst. A circus worker tends to a pack of dogs inside a fenced enclosure. A circus wagon is seen behind him. Teams of horses are being watered from a large tank, with Barnum & Bailey Shows painted on the side of the water tank. A circus worker watches over them. Two men and a boy walk past during the scene. Circus attendants parade a herd of elephants into a town, followed by others escorting camels. Local people watch from the sidelines. View from the rear of the parade of animals along a street in the town. A zebra and two horned animals also take up the end of the procession. Another view of the parade with circus hands riding along with teams of horses and others riding atop elephants.
As film begins, attendants riding atop elephants are seen from the rear as they parade along a the street of an American town. Front view of a circus wagon pulled by a team of horses and followed by numerous camels tethered behind it. A circus hand escorts a zebra and two other animals. Behind them are two automobiles. Next, local people are seen lined up to enter the fairgrounds where the circus tents are set up.
The first scene of the film shows a circus hand washing a dog outdoors in a metal wash tub. local people watch him. The next scene shows a worker hanging wash on lines set behind the circus tents where they are camping.
As film begins, camera focuses on a wooden octagonal house (possibly a small lighthouse) perched on a rock near a lake. Camera then pans across the rocky shore and continues across the lake without revealing a shoreline opposite the house.
Opening scene shows Independence Day parade led by a brass band followed by a number of World War I veterans in their uniforms, and a troop of Boy Scouts. A streetcar number 7768 passes between the parade and the camera. A truck rigged up as a float carries several young people. It is followed by a tractor pulling a pavilion float carrying three young women. Signage on the float indicates it represents the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF). IOOF slogans seen on side of float include "Visit the sick. Heal the Sick. Bury the dead. Educate the Orphan." Dates "1819 to 1919" are seen, marking the fraternity's centennial (100th) year. Banner atop float is difficult to read but appears to list lodge numbers 38 and 337 and "Rebekah" and "WA". (Location possibly Spokane Washington?) Other decorated vehicles follow. One is a tractor driven by a woman, who is followed by two soldiers in uniform driving a roadster without a rear body. A man and woman dressed as George and Martha Washington walk along the parade route. They are followed by several cars.
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