Film showing city of Hiroshima, Japan, before and after the August 6, 1945 dropping of the atomic bomb over the city in World War 2. Sequence opens on what the narrator says is August 5, 1945, the day before the event (but the footage is likely from before that date). Camera pans over the city of Hiroshima before the atomic bomb destroyed the city. Japanese air raid lookouts are seen on watch for allied bombers. View of atomic bomb detonation as seen from aircraft high overhead (this is actually a view of the Nagasaki blast, not the Hiroshima blast despite narrator's comments). Next, the complete destruction of the city of Hiroshima is seen from camera at low altitude showing the four and one half square miles of the city flattened and burned. A Japanese hospital still functioning, with red cross flag on it. Hospital workers retrieving wounded victims of the bombing. Ambulatory victims clustered in doorways and halls. Shadow image of a large industrial valve wheel burned onto wall behind it. Similar image of a ladder burned onto a wall. The decorative pattern on a woman's dress burned onto skin of her back. Japanese physicians treating victims of thermal and radiation burns. Views of various victims, including some children, and their respective injuries. Scene shifts forward one year, to August 6, 1946. Children are lined up outside a school building, and then seen inside their classroom. Disfiguration and wounds on children resulting from injuries are still evident on the children at their desks. Sequence shifts again, this time to an early United Nations meeting with delegates grappling with the issue of controlling nuclear power and atomic weapons. Closeup view of American delegates, including James F. Byrnes (Secretary of State)and James B. Conant, President of Harvard University in the assembly. Closeups of representatives from South Asian nations. Closeup of USSR delegation, headed by Foreign Minister, Vyacheslav Molotov. Signs identifying delegates from Colombia, Egypt, Iraq, Bolivia, China. Final sequence shows several U.S. atomic scientists in their respective laboratories, including Enrico Fermi and Vannevar Bush. United States representative to the UN, Warren Austin, speaking about the so-called Baruch Plan, for international control of atomic weapons. (Principal author, Bernard Baruch, is standing behind speaker's left shoulder.) USSR delegation, headed by permanent representative, Andrei Gromyko, who is seen presenting the Soviet plan. View of explosion and mushroom cloud during U.S. Operation Crossroads atomic bomb test in the Pacific.
U.S. President Woodrow Wilson inaugurates airmail service as it commences in the U.S. A Curtis JN-4 airmail airplane parked on the Polo field, in Washington, DC.. Van of United States Air Mail Service arrives. Mail is loaded into the airplane. Pilots Lieutenant George L. Boyle and Major Reuben H. Fleet standing beside the airplane conferring over a map. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, Mrs. Wilson, and Post-master General Albert Sidney Burleson inspect the airmail airplane that will carry mail to New York. . A man shows first official piece of airmail. He and his wife greets pilot. Wilson talks with pilot Major Reuben H. Fleet . Pilot George L. Boyle gets into airplane. Airplane takes off. Airmail airplane piloted by lieutenant Webb leaves New York from Belmont Park and takes off. The airplane stops at Philadelphia to pick up more mail. Mail is loaded into the airplane. The airplane takes off. It arrives in Washington. Mail is unloaded from the airplane. Pilot gets out of the airplane.
Anti-pollution mufflers in New York. View of a bus. A banner on the front of the bus reads "For Cleaner Air, We Are Testing A New Anti-pollution Muffler on This Bus'. People gather around the anti-pollution muffler. The muffler reduces diesel exhaust fumes and odors. The bus is driven away.
Display of a fuel cell powered truck of the U.S. Army in St. Louis, Missouri. The fuel cell powered U.S. Army truck drives along a road. The truck stops and a man gets off. The hood of the truck opens. The man looks under the truck hood. He displays fuel cells under the hood. The cells come from chemical hydrazine which produces electricity by air oxidation, and does not need recharging. The truck drives away. (Example of early electric vehicle concept.)
Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. Views of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. Cubans aboard a boat headed towards a shore. They get off the boat. They enter from the gate of a building at the base to report for work. A guard checks their identification. A jeep drives along a road. A guard standing with a rifle looks at equipment. A bunker camouflaged with sand bags. A U.S. Air Force helicopter in flight.
Landings of Allied troops for the invasion of Southern France during World War II. A barrage balloon floats in the air. Landing Ship Tanks (LSTs) and Landing Craft Tanks (LCT) head towards a beach.
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