Through the use of both newsreel footage and re-enacted sequences, this B.I.P production, modeled along the lines "The March of Time" shorts, presents a record of the highlights of the previous 25 years, to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of King George V. It depicts incidents starting with his coronation. and on through political problems,woman suffrage, strikes, trade expansion. World War One, and the depression, while also showing the changes in living style and progression.