A film on the importance of photographic reconnaissance during the Korean War. U.S. Navy pilots and and an officer in a briefing room. They study pictures taken by pilots. The officer briefs them. He marks target areas on the photographs. Men carrying bombs on a trailer of aircraft carrier flight deck. They are loaded in airplanes. An aircraft carrier underway in the Pacific Ocean. Flags flying giving signals. The aircraft taking off from the carrier, including Douglas AD Skyraider aircraft and F9F Panther jet aircraft. The photograph pilot seated in the cockpit of F9F airplane. The aircraft takes off. F9F Panther airplanes fly in formation overhead. Aerial view of a target area in Korea. Smoke rises from bombardment of the area. The airplanes drop bombs. Heavy columns of smoke rise. The enemy fires anti aircraft guns. The bombs are dropped in the correct area by taking information from the photographs. Includes multiple gun camera views of actual strafing and bombing of targets by U.S. Navy aircraft during the Korean War. Also includes a small amount of dramatized on ground battle scenes.
Views from a vehicle moving slowly along the center of a busy street in a city in India. Men walk on the street. Horse-carts on street. Goods being transported on the horse-carts. Buildings along the sides of street. Notable absence of motor traffic.
Scenes of beautiful buildings and gardens with palm trees, in India. Several persons seen around entrance of one building, A woman ascends steps and walks across a stone terrace, in what appears to be a Temple courtyard. A tent is seen in background.
People stand at the raised edge of an enclosure and watch a large flock of Flamingo birds moving about. Other birds occasionally fly through the area.
Washermen, called Dhobis, washing laundry at an outdoor laundry called a Dhobi Ghat, in India. The washermen are seen striking the laundry on flogging stones. Laundry laid out to dry in the sun. Houses in the background. Man wearing a Shola style pith helmet, walks close past the camera, and is seen again, later, in the center of the activity.
People stand in a Hindu Temple yard (probably Kali Temple in Calcutta), where young goats are being prepared as offerings to the Goddess Tara.