American airplane factory, WWI era: title says "Americans bid for Air Mastery"; early assembly line; workers tune engines on row of biplanes; shots of planes taking the air and maneuvering.
Soviet film showing the advances in the USSR since the Revolution. VO is in Russian. Quick succession of shots including Lenin, logging, children getting food, factories, rocket taking off, etc.
Inside Soviet Russia: Images of peasant life since start of Bolshevik rule. Titles are skeptical of the Bolsheviks; peasants look very tired, hungry and dirty. Vaccinations, relief supplies.
American aviator John Moisant demonstrates his airplane. The plane has a small body, large curved wings like a bird's, and bicycle wheels. Scenes include plane flying, crowd watching. (Moisant had just made a flight from Paris to England.)
Balkan Wars, 1912 (narrated compilation) Bulgarian and Turkish armies; King Ferdinand of Bulgaria; King Nikolas of Montenegro; discussion of the formation of the alliances of Europe; King Alfonso of Spain; German troops; the VO tends to insinuate that th
British wounded are entertained by other soldiers. Men playing bumper cars from horses, military band relay race (playing instruments while running), men boxing, soldier making a women's floral straw hat.