Major Tinker issues orders to pilots Larson and Carr for Rio Grande border patrol in Texas "Big Bend". Curtiss biplane in the field. Pilots stand nearby and discuss. The plane takes off. Series of scenes of Curtiss biplane in air over Rio Grande.
Orrick Missouri: Damage due to sudden tornado. School building destroyed. Roof falls on ground. Broken lights lay on ground. Ruins of house. Men go in a damaged house. New York: People in 1960s fashions at restaurant, women on a small bridge in Central Park. People sit and enjoy spring-like temperatures in New York City. People in Central Park enjoy a horse drawn carriage ride and a woman rides a bicycle in park. Rio De Janeiro, Brazil: A car in water. Broken boat on sea shore. Cars go through water. Damaged buses. People besides damaged buses. Dead bodies on platform in river. A turned over car lay on ground. Ruins and litter on road. Trucks and cars go on road. People stand on road and watch.
Refugee camp at Rio Grande in United States during the U.S. Army punitive expedition seeking Pancho Villa . Refugees pass by on the field. A donkey on the field. Refugees on the horse-carts. Other men on horses. Refugees sit outside the camps. They prepare food. Horses on the field. Mexican refugees sit on the field. Medic gives first aid to people.
Segment of U.S. Information Agency film describing its world-wide operations. Map shows 217 overseas posts in 17 countries, of the USIA (also known abroad, as the U.S. Information Service). Animated map zooms in on one post, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Aerial view of Sugar Loaf Mountain overlooking the harbor and city. Street scene in Rio. USIA Public Affairs Officer, William A. Wieland, is seen walking along a sidewalk in the city. Next he is seen in the office of Ambassador James S. Kemper, briefing him about USIA activities. View of the Brazilian Foreign Office building. Mr. Wieland meets with the Chief of the Cultural Division there. Book stacks in the USIA Thomas Jefferson Library in Rio de Janeiro. Mr. Wieland conferring with a librarian. He is also seen at the USIA broadcast facility in the U.S. Embassy. Film shifts to street scene in Cebu, the Philippines. A building displaying American and Philippine flags, is labeled: " United States Information Service." Inside, and American and a Filipino worker give bundles of literature to local workers for distribution. One, a bus driver, carries his bundle onto his open-sided bus, displaying the name, "Cebu, Autobus." He waves as he drives away. The USIA Public Affairs Officer is seen visiting the Mayor of Cebu City, Vincente S. del Rosario; giving a news release to the editor of a newspaper; broadcasting on local radio;and socializing with local editors. USIA drive a mobile movie van into a remote village where many children are playing. They set up a screen and projector. Almost everyone in town attends the showing. Scene shifts to USIA headquarters building at 1778 Pennsylvanis Avenue,in Washington, DC. Director Theodore Streibert holds a staff meeting. View of President Eisenhower addressing U.S. public media leaders about confronting the Soviet Union with truthful information about the U.S. and the West, on April 16, 1953,in Washington, DC. A USIA technician transmitting text of the speech to its public affairs officers around the world. Views of newspapers carrying the story in Paraquay, Ireland,Algeria, and Burma. The President's speech was printed in a pamphlet entitled "The Peace We Seek," ahd sent abroad where it was translated into Arabic,Japanese, Persian, and 20 other languages. Four million copies were distributed. Posters about the speech were also distributed.
Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas. The Syracuse Orangemen win against the Texas Longhorns 23-14. WS crowd in cowboy hats standing and cheering. Gerhard Schwedes passes to Ernie Davis for an 87 yard touchdown. Banner seen in crowd reads, Elmira, NY . Fist fight interrupts the game. View of Longhorns fans wearing cowboy hats and ringing cowbells. (College Football)
Pilots from the U.S. Army Air Service Advanced Flight Training School, at Kelly Field, San Antonio, Texas, fly through the Canyon of the Rio Grande River, in De Haviland DH 4 aircraft. Aerial view from a DH 4 aircraft, of another flying alongside the rocky walls of the river canyon. Glimpses of the camera plane's wing and strut with rocky cliffs behind. Views of the river far below and the other DH 4 flying much lower. View from camera being held high above cockpit, showing upper surface of DH 4 wing, fuselage, and empennage. A DH4 flying close to the canyon wall.View from camera, shooting above the top of DH 4 wing, upward and back across the aircraft tail. It shows walls of canyon surrounding the aircraft. Closeup of DH-4 displaying number "53" on fuselage. It is silhouetted against the sky as it flies in the canyon. More views of canyon walls seen through struts of camera aircraft. More closeups of airplane number 53. View from camera plane of five other DH 4s in formation silhouetted against white cumulus clouds. Pilot and gunner in cockpit of DH 4 in flight. Five DH 4s in Vee formation overhead with clouds behind them. More shots of aviators in cockpit of camera plane and of the five airplanes in formation.
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