Pictures and reenactments illustrating American history. U.S. First Lady, Martha Washington, presiding over discussions of fashion and politics. Reemacted footage of 17th century and 18th century shipwrights and carpenters at work in a colonial-era shipyard. Men sawing logs outdoors. Blacksmiths at work in a colonial village. Picture of Thomas Jefferson. Picture of Potomac River separating Virginia and Maryland, where Washington DC will be founded. Sketch of a farmer with horse-drawn cart, in hills of Virginia. The capital is shifted to Washington. Map showing Colonial States and interior waterways of commerce, including the Ohio and Mississippi rivers down to the Port of New Orleans.
Dramatization of historical American events. United States President Thomas Jefferson looks at a wall map of the Louisiana Purchase, acquired from Napoleon Bonaparte, the leader of France. Jefferson sits with a few officials seated at a table. A pictorial map showing the Columbia River and the Missouri River flowing into the Pacific. The Lewis and Clark expedition is sent to western territory. The life of the Native American Indians. The Indians wearing traditional costumes. Indians hunting buffalo. Scenic views of a hillside with a flowing river. Lewis and Clark cross a water body led by an Indian guide. A large waterfall. The expedition members sleeping in trees to avoid predators. The rapids of the Columbia River. Men crossing the river with water up to their necks. The men wading through the water holding their guns up. Natives watching the men. The course of the Columbia River. Two men from the expedition team lying beside a tree. The expedition watches English men in boats on the river who have come from Canada to establish outposts.
The history of the United States. Illustration: American people in the western states. A political leader speaking from a platform. People listening to the leader. People on an election day. The officials talking. A few men rejoicing. Young men, who unable to go to school, have become observers of life. Women act as the working partners of their men. Men and women moving along a path.
Various scenes of Afghanistan and its people several years after its post war modernization program. Scenes of Kabul. Older students leaving a school and younger ones walking through a park-like setting. Afghan planners discussing future projects. View of a dam built by MKA. A large Afghan factory building. Afghans loading huge bags of cotton for export. A man shows the contents of one sack. Smoke stack on an Afghan textile plant. Inside, many machines spin cotton into thread. Glimpses of new hospitals, schools and mosques. A modern home and garden. A gardener waters pots of flowers in the garden. Views of a vast field of grain at the MKA experimental farm. The field is seen when green, and then again, when ready for harvest. Afghan farmers harvesting the wheat with machinery. Men walking alongside a harvesting machine in operation.
Accidents and incidents at the Air Force flight test center at the Edwards Air Force Base in California, United States. The United States Air Force YB-52 lands and deploys a drag chute normally. In distance another YB-52 lands in dirt off a runway and turns on the ground as the rear landing gear collapses. A B-52C Stratofortress landing. View inside the cockpit as the landing gear lever jumps out of position and the copilot holds it down. The B-52C aircraft lands with the rear gear collapsed. Another view of the same event from outside.
A Foreign relations committee meeting in Washington D.C., United States. An official enters the committee room. A sign on the door reads 'Executive Session Admittance to members of committee only'. Delegates seated during the conference. U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles looks at a map. Robert Alphonso Taft, Republican United States Senator and Joseph T Ferguson discuss. Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Alexander Wiley sits with an official. He addresses the conference. He states that the military decisions will rest on the President
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