(right) meeting the former
President of the Philippines Emilio Aguinaldo (left) in March 1931 Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. and a crew of three — photographers Harry Sharp and Chuck Lewis and co-director Victor Fleming — journey around the World and report on various cultural curiosities and the humor they find in everyday life overseas. Beginning with
Japan, Fairbanks focuses on the people and observes a Japanese woman demonstrating how her maids assemble her headdress. Fairbanks and his crew then travel to
China, where they are greeted by one of China's greatest actors, female impersonator
Mei Lanfang. Further travels take them to the walls of the
Forbidden City in
Peking, the tomb of Dr
Sun Yat-sen and the city of
Hong Kong. En route, Fairbanks exercises aboard the
ocean liner , displaying his athlete's physique while doing deck drills. He is also shown playing golf. In
Indochina the Maharanee of
Cooch-Behar provides Fairbanks with fifty elephants and attendants for an expedition into the jungle to hunt leopards. In the
Philippines, Fairbanks films former
President of the Philippines Emilio Aguinaldo as he poses and speaks for the camera. After passing through
Cambodia and
Bangkok, Fairbanks stops in
Siam, where he visits a party attended by many foreign dignitaries at the estate of the King of Siam. At this point, the live action is interrupted by a short animated sequence of
Mickey Mouse dancing to Siamese music. In
India, the film focuses on the
Taj Mahal, life on the
Ganges river, a Hindu cremation ceremony, a performance of trained birds stringing beads, the Palace of Kushabaha and an elephant trip to hunt for a leopard. The film concludes with a "magic carpet" ride back to Hollywood, which incorporates aerial footage of Chicago and the Los Angeles basin. ==Home media==