Britain's Lord Mountbatten offers Indian leaders an unconditional plan for freedom in New Delhi, India. Members of All-India Congress headed by Mohammad Ali Jinnah and Jawaharlal Nehru hear British offer of dominion status.
European style colonnade exterior of a temple in Southeast Asia. People enter the temple. A wheel cart moves on street outside the temple. Men with bamboo carrying poles. An arcade with merchants and customers. Views of other temples with Buddhist style icons at the door. Shops outside the temples with bamboo mats. Interior of a temple. Trees in the background. People sit inside the temple. Buddhist style stupas are seen.
Efforts of Planned Parenthood Federation highlight the problem of increasing population and food scarcity in India. A van arrives in a village. Children and a man stand along the side of a street. "Van donated by International Planned Parenthood Federation" IS written on the van. (IPPF was founded in India in 1952.) The van arrives in the village to create awareness among the people about the family planning and birth control. Planned Parenthood members gather to teach people in the village about the importance of family planning. View of a film projector being turned on and a film running in the projector. An animated film is shown to people regarding the family planning program. People watch the film. Some are women holding small children. The film related family size to overcrowding of the land. It shows the family of a farmer. It shows that a farmer works hard on his farm to get a good crop. When he has a big family, he will have to divide the land among many children. The animated film attempts to breakdown the belief that large families bring security and prosperity.
American sailors in liberty boat pull in to steps of Gateway to India. They get on buses. Buildings along sides of street. An Indian tells fortune to a sailor. Sailors in boats come at the steps. They disembark from the boat. They come upstairs. Indian men watch them. Sailors on a horse-cart on the street. They stand outside a store of foreign money exchange. They watch a snake charmer. The snake charmer plays tricks with the snakes.
Queen Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the mother of Queen Elizabeth II, arrives back in England after an official tour to Australia and New Zealand. People gather in the Guildhall (71 Basinghall St, London EC2V 7HH, United Kingdom) to greet her. Princess Margaret, the Queen Mother’s younger daughter, stands with a flower bouquet to greet her. Queen Elizabeth seated on a chair and people greet her and applaud.
Distillation of crude gasoline to remove impurities in United States. Cracking process to convert additional portion of crude oil into gasoline. Crude oil is distilled under high pressure. By this process, it cracks and yields 40% gasoline. Battery of pressure stills. Smoke arises from the stills during processing. Animation shows the process of further distillation of crude oil to obtain gasoline. The still is charged with crude oil. It is fired with mechanical stokers. A high pressure is created in still from which cracking takes place. Then the gasoline passes off as vapor with some heavy oil. Fractionation takes place. The heavy ends are returned for further cracking. Gas vapors are passed in condenser coil. Then it is passed in receiving drum. Excess gas is taken off to maintain an even pressure.
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