Calico, California: western mining town restored for tourism purposes. Horse drawn fire truck. Bucket brigade: line of buckets over well for putting out fires. Old mining methods and mine shafts seen. Tourists visiting abandoned mine. Calico cemetery and graves. CU of tombstone for reads “Blackie Scroggins, Hung May 1, 1882, Claim Jumpers Take Notice”. Titusville, Pennsylvania: reconstruction of the first oil well sunk in the USA (Drake Well). Views of other still operating oil wells, powered by rod lines. Museum for moving pictures industry in New Jersey. Re enactment of Nineteenth Century moving pictures production and Thomas Edison’s first studio. Reconstruction of the ‘Black Maria’ studio, which could be rotated to follow the sun. Young boy cranks camera and direction calls out orders with megaphone. Dramatic silent movie actors.