Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi of Iran departing Rome Ciampino Airport (Via Appia Nuova, 1651, 00040 Ciampino RM, Italy) for Iran, during the week of the coup in Iran toppling Mohammad Mosaddegh. The Shah boards a KLM Lockheed Constellation Flying Dutchman aircraft for the first leg of his journey, to Baghdad, Iraq. The Shah boards the plane and waves goodbye. Italian police in white uniforms (Polizia Municipale) and gendarmes (Carabinieri) control sightseers. The plane taxis and takes off. Isolated view of Lockheed Constellation aircraft being refueled over the wing.
Treasury Secretary William McAdoo speaks at rally. A huge United States flag in the background. Surrounded by crowds, on Fifth Avenue, New York, First Lady, Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, steps from vehicle to sidewalk. High-ranking Police Officers seen in uniform in the crowd.
United States President Woodrow Wilson makes his way, with difficulty, through an overwhelming crowd while campaigning for a second term in Indianapolis, Indiana. Mounted police strive to control the crowds around the President's car..
Inventor Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion streamlined automobile in a test ride on the streets of New York City. The automobile is a three wheeled motor car. The car's license plate reads: 'SL 187.' It's maneuverability is demonstrated by parking at a curbside, and by. making a 360-degree turn, spinning closely and smoothly around a New York City policeman standing in the center of an intersection.
A complete system of protection against bank robbers is installed at a bank. The system of protection includes tear gas, machine guns and other weapons to ensure that a bank is not robbed. A man wheels money on a cart through a safe door. Men standing at a teller window to withdraw money. A police man shows a sawed off shot gun and a machine gun to a bank employee. A bank employee puts a gun through a gun portal. A sign below a clock reads "safe deposit vaults." Guns seen showing through gun portals. A man points a machine gun through a gun portal. A bank teller counts money.
Drunk detector spots fuzziness after three drinks. Municipal Police tests a drunk detector in Cleveland. Men take alcoholic beverages for the test. The machine is tested. It supplies scientific evidence against motorists accused of drunken driving. The Rotating discs of the detector confuse the eyes of the drunk people but fail to affect sober suspects.
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