A view of a large building destroyed in Berlin. Soviet War Memorial (Str. des 17. Juni 4, 10557 Berlin, Germany) seen with a soldier flanked by Russian tanks. Brandenburg Gate or Brandenburger Tor in Berlin, Germany.
A bus passes in front of a large house. The Opera House in Berlin. Pedestrian passes by. A banner reads 'Clay Allee'. Cars pass on the street. Scaffolding surrounds a building on Charlottenburg Chausee. View of ivy covered apartment house in Berlin.
Senator Robert Alphonso Taft campaigning for the Republican Presidential nomination, with a huge crowd of people outdoors on a Fairground. The ground is decorated with balloons and lights. Cameramen take photographs. 'Learn your future, 50 cents' is written on a fortune teller's tent . 'Taft is tops' written on caps. Robert Taft meets different people. Banners and posters supporting Robert Taft seen throughout the grounds. Image of Democrats symbolic donkey shown, with Taft pinning on a strip of paper labeled "Truman" as the tail. Taft tries skill at throwing balls to win Taft into the White House. Signs make fun of well known Democrats, such as Dean Acheson. Cardboard cutout of Senator Taft, with a man shaking its hand.
British car manufacturer, Rover Company, demonstrates the world's first gas turbine car, JET 1, by driving it 140 miles per hour on the Jabekke highway in Belgium, under the auspices of the Royal Automobile Club of Belgium. Officials of that organization occupy a monitoring van. View from overhead of gas turbine car speeding towards camera. Driver is interviewed, while sitting in the car. View of helmeted driver running the turbine car at a higher speed, of 153 miles per hour, a world's record for a gas turbine car. View from above of the car speeding away from the camera.
United States Military Academy air indoctrination at Eglin Air Force base in United States. U.S. aircraft B-29 in flight. Parachute attachment and A-3 lifeboat dropped from the plane. Coastline in the background. Two parachutists jump in water from C-47 aircraft. Trees and houses on coast. Men aboard a lifeboat. Men swim out to men who are in rubber life raft. SA-16 approaches for landing. It lands on water and taxis. Pier in view. Men in rubber raft. Cadets walk towards trees on coast. Military dependants bathe on beach. Rubber life raft loads in water. Flare smoke arising from boat. Motor launch underway at sea. Two parachutists descend.
United States Military Academy air indoctrination at Eglin Air Force base in Okaloosa County, Florida, United States. Officer delivers speech to a group in hangar. Pictures and charts mounted at the back of instructor. Cadet looks into cockpit of a jet aircraft in hangar. Group attends lecture inside hangar. Men look into cockpit and other areas of various jet aircraft. Cadets look at an exhibition of snakes in pit. A toy balloon in the pit area. Sergeant milks venom from rattle snake into glass tumbler. Sergeant holds head and tail of rattle snake.