A large group of French women stand on a pier, waving American flags, as a troop ship arrives at a port in France, during World War 1. American Expeditionary Forces (AEF), soldiers of the U.S.1st Infantry Division, crowd her deck. The troops are seen leaving the ship by gangplank, and crowding the pier. They then assemble and march off. They proceed through dense crowds on both sides of their line of march. U.S. troops marching along a French city street are approached by French women expressing their appreciation. A French policeman walks with a bicycle, alongside the troops. French policemen march along, behind the Americans. Scene shifts to American soldiers playing musical instruments as others dance with women at an outdoor waterfront cafe, as they wait for transport. Allied officers are seen standing in front of a collection of canvas covered shelters, with a sign above, reading: "Camp Franco-Americain." (This is where arriving American troops undergo training by the French.) (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
French Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré resigns from his position as President of the Interallied Reparations Commission. Scene shifts to closup, on board a ship, of Reinhold Wulle, leader of a monarchist wing in the conservative German National Peoples Party (DNVP). Scene shifts again, to Berlin, Germany, where well-dressed citizens are gathered on a sidewalk. It shifts again, to German citizens at a newsstand holding many different newspapers, all reflecting unhappiness with restrictions and economic effects from the conditions of the Treaty of Versailles, following World War I. A poster shows a facsimile of the Treaty with arrows pointing to Part 5, requiring demilitarization of the Rhineland. Scene shifts back to the well-dressed gathering, where a photographer stands on an iron fence railing as a car arrives and an official steps into the group waiting for him. Next, a man is seen seated on the roof of a truck driving on Unter Den Linden, with Brandenburg Gate in background. He throws monarchist leaflets to bystanders. Men on bicycles accompany the truck. Leaflets are also seen being thrown from an automobile on a Berlin street. Six men distribute monarchist leaflets from a truck. Leaflets fill the air as traffic, including a tram, moves through main streets of Berlin. A contingent of Berlin police officers begins clearing crowds from sidewalks and streets. Mounted police clearing a square.
The city of Shanghai in China. A large number of men and women gathered at the Shanghai Race Club track. A Shanghai Municipal Police officer and a man and a woman posing. Spectators at the race track. A few of them seated and a few of them standing. Horses racing on the track. Men and women standing at the base of a flight of steps to a building. Jockeys mounted on horses escorted by their owners through the crowd. View of two women. A Sikh policeman and a Chinese Sergeant, both armed, at the entrance gate to the Shanghai Race Club complex. Several people beside the gate. Several persons sitting in rickshaws outside the race track.
Allied soldiers in a jeep and a British personnel carrier, drive past huge letters, spelling "DUCE," painted on the side of a massive concrete wall in Messina, during World War 2. Change of scene shows American soldier examining an Italian Pavesi military tractor. He is very intested in its unusual wheels. Change of scene shows the soldier climbing into the seat of another Pavesi tractor and checking out its controls. A large building across the street displays a British flag. An American technical sergeant offers an Italian civil policeman a cigarette. A closeup of the policeman as he smokes. The sergeant points to "Heil Rommel" written on a door, and other graffiti in chalk on a wall. He pauses to examine some wrecked Italian vehicles. Closeup of the wreckage.
An industrial dispute in Kansas City, Missouri. Women garment workers walk in front of shops. A police vehicle in the foreground. The police stands in front of the shops. Automobile traffic in the background. The protesters wearing banners eat and drink.
A film titled 'Life in Harlem' about life of the African American people of Harlem in New York. Buildings in Harlem. A horse drawn carriage on road. People near their houses. A man pulls a loaded push cart. A boy comes out of a house for his work as a shoe shine boy. Policemen move out of a police headquarters building for their duty in the streets. A sweeper works on a subway. African American man wearing suit and hat eats a sandwich. A crowded sidewalk with pedestrians and a news stand. An address sign for West 145 Edgecombe Avenue. An apartment building. Views of more wealthy areas of Harlem and Schubert Hills. Women come out of a building. Awning for the Park Lincoln building with street address 309. A woman in elaborate fancy dress and hat walks under awning and enters a waiting car as a doorman holds open the door of the taxi cab for her. Two young women bicycle on road. People shopping at open air food market with vendors and push carts on upper 8th Avenue. A man reads newspaper as he sits and has his shoes shined by a shoe shine man. People at door ways of houses.
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