French President Charles De Gaulle in England. The train arrives on platform. Officials stand aligned on platform. Queen of United Kingdom Elizabeth Alexandra Mary shakes hand with president and his wife. They meet Prime Minister Harold McMillan. President meets other officials. They leave the platform and get on a horse chariot. Crowd stands besides road. A woman clicks picture. President waves. A girl watches. The chariot reaches the Buckingham Palace. President and Queen Elizabeth wave from balcony. Musicians play music. Firework at night. Sailors watch. Nuns watch the firework show.
Farm boys of Texas visit different states of United States. A young farm boy in a corn farm at Iowa. The boy comes to corn crops. He looks at the crops and goes. The farm boys watch Belgian draft horse mares near Des Moines. A man leads mares on a track, he leads mare in a field.
A 1940 Packard long body sedan, carrying General Charles de Gaulle, comes up the drive to the White House. A group of U.S. military officers, and civilian officials, standing under an awning, greets him.
Eleven hundred rioting prisoners set six buildings on fire in St Vincent de Paul Penitentiary in Montreal, Canada. Jail guards run to control the prisoners. Prisoners run everywhere in the jail compound. Water hose throws water on the jail buildings to extinguish fire. Guards with arms march in to control the prisoners trying to escape from the jail.
Ground targets attacked by U.S. aircraft on 11th April 1944 in World War II. Aircraft of 8th Fighter Command is piloted by Lieutenant D.E. Schoenfeldt of 357th Squadron. Aircraft strafes a German Junkers Ju 88 bomber stationary on airfield.
Project Cirrus, in the Netherlands, 1951. Film is devoted to views of Norwegian air crews and their de Havilland Vampire jet aircraft, posing where they are encamped at an airfield in the Netherlands. Camera pans over parked aircraft an shows closeup of markings of Norwegian Squadron 336 on aircraft fuselage. A pilot poses, looking skyward, in opened cockpit of his plane. He wears a helmet with goggles raised atop it and his oxygen mask dangling below it. Closeup of Norwegian airman with "Norway" displayed on his left shoulder patch. He wears glasses and looks skyward. White clouds fill the sky in the background throughout the film. Two Norwegian fliers in flight suits pose looking away from the camera (in profiles). A vampire jet begins a takeoff roll as the film ends.
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