French Legionnaires, headquartered in Taza, mount mobile operations in the Rif mountains of Morocco. Opening scene shows mountainous region in area of Ajdir, near Al Hoceima, Morocco. Next, explosions and white smoke are seen in distance as French motorized forces move toward the camera. Closeup of Hotchkiss M201 Jeep 4 x 4 with sandbagged radiator and carrying a gunner in the rear, moving past some assembled armor. A sign reading, “Col du Nador, Altitude 1430 m.” Closeup of a French M8 Greyhound Armored car. French soldiers ducking for cover as they scramble near a Hotchkiss M201 jeep and take up positions overlooking a valley. Soldiers manning a truck-mounted 50cal machine gun. Similar guns silhouetted against the sky and more soldiers with rifles in position on a ridge of ground. A battery of 105mm howitzers being fired. Several silhouetted against the lighter sky. More views of the gun batteries. Closeup of gunners loading howitzer and expended shells on the ground. Soldiers checking area around a bridge. Troops collecting stones to repair a hole at the bridge approach. Several soldiers carry a wounded comrade back to a place where he receives first aid care. A soldier points to a French- operated Di Haviland Vampire FB.5 aircraft overhead. Another aircraft (A North American T-6) is also seen flying over the scene. Artillery battery commander using special telescope. French infantry moving forward. Soldiers at a field communications center. Soldiers firing small arms from a hillside.
Mr. G.Keith Funston, President of the New York Stock Exchange, with other officials, on the stock market trading floor at the Exchange.They surround an Exchange specialist, in Ford Motor Company trading, who demonstrates how he uses open outcry bidding, and receives orders to sell or buy, from other traders, who give him slips of paper. Initially, he raises his hand, palm open, in a signal proposing to sell shares. Several persons point at the display, behind him, on which the symbol "F" appears, which stands for Ford Motor Company. The trader records information, in pencil, on a small hand-held pad.
View of Icebreaker USS Edisto (AGB-2) underway in Antarctic waters. View of ice breaking in front of the ship and penquins swimming. View of cargo ship, USS Arneb (AKA-56), with heavy smoke pouring from stack. Penquins waddling about on the ice. Explorers disembarking from ship via long gangway to the ice. Group digging hole in ice. Views of Little America buildings and supplies left from previous expeditions. Admiral Byrd arrives by helicopter and presides over flag-raising ceremony for Little America II. Admiral Richard E. Byrd,Paul Siple, Major Murray Wiener USAF, and IGY representative Edward Goodall salute the flag.
French Army troops boarding a troop ship to deploy overseas. They are in full iniform including blouse and tie, and carrying their military kit and weapons. One soldier carries a French MAT-49 submachine gun. A man at gangplank gives each soldier a piece of paper. View of the full troop ship leaving the dock. Friends and family waving goodbye.
Activities at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel highlighting nuclear research under U.S. President Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace program. Visitors on the walks of the Institute. A large model of an atom sits on the grounds. The American and the Israeli flags flutter along with a flag depicting an atom. The entrance of the institute. Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion is visiting and converses with institute officials. One of them is Shimon Peres who is standing behind Ben-Gurion. They see researchers in a laboratory setting using scientific apparatus and equipment. A woman works with chemicals. A researcher injects a mouse with a hypodermic needle. A female subject is positioned at a measurement device with her neck as focus.
A Moroccan official holds a press conference, at a palace in Morocco. The entrance of a building. The official steps from a car. He climbs up the stairs. Cars parked in the background. Other officials greet him at the entrance of the palace. They enter the building. View of the interior of the building. The oficial addresses the press conference. He reads from a printed telegram message headed with the handwritten name of Sidi Muhammad ibn Youssef and announcing the end of his exile. The press members make notes.
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