A preliminary meeting of U.S. and British staffs in Malta prior to the Yalta Conference during World War II. Exteriors of the venue of the Malta Conference. A car pulls up outside the building. A sign on the building reads 'Montgomery House'.
A preliminary meeting of U.S. and British staffs in Malta prior to the Yalta Conference during World War II. Castille, a government building being used as a British delegation's official headquarters. People milling about in the foreground. A car at the entrance as officers leave the building.
Preparations underway for the Yalta Conference in Crimea, Soviet Union during World War II. Trucks carrying Signal Corps equipment parked outside Livadia Palace. Russian laborers and U.S. Army personnel unload crates and boxes from the trucks. The crates piled up outside the palace. Men carry the crates inside the building. The crates and the boxes being arranged.
Steel being produced in a mill in California, United States during world War II. Machines in operation as steel is being produced in the first steel production facility on the U.S. West Coast. Famous industrialist and shipbuilding titan, Henry J. Kaiser, looks at the production process in the mill. Tanks roll out of an assembly line. Many lines of completed medium tanks and heavy tanks lined up in depots and ready for use in World War II.
Allied leaders and officers arrive for the Malta Conference (Code name: Argonaut, Phase I, Cricket) during World War 2. American and British Chiefs of Staff arrive in cars. Seen are the U.S. Admirals King and Leahy; Ambassador Averell Harriman; General George Marshall; and other officials..
Opening scene shows office door of the New York Adult Education Council, (at 254 Fourth Avenue, in Manhattan, New York City). Next, two middle aged men dressed in older fashion style European shirts and ties, are seen sitting at a table and conversing with a man and a young woman (who appears to be an interpreter). Scene shifts to about a dozen people in a reading room. Several are consulting a large wall map of the United States. Others are reading brochures about the United States. Closeup of a woman engrossed in her reading material. A woman writes notes on a pad, as she peruses a book. A man, next to her reads a book about U.S. Presidents. Another man is seen reading a book about Gettysburg with an image of Abraham Lincoln on its cover. Three persons are discussing the wall map of America that is drawn to illustrate the manufacturing, farming, mining, ranching and myriad other characteristics and activities associated with various parts of America. Across the top of the map a label reads: "America - A Nation of One People from many Countries." A woman looks at a copy of the Declaration of Independence displayed on another wall. An employee, or volunteer, selects several small brochures from a shelf and gives them to a woman as she explains them to her. Closeups of people looking at books. Closeup of book shelf containing biographies of Daniel Webster; Abraham Lincoln; Lafayettte; Monroe; Theodore Roosevelt; Daniel Boone; and others. A woman's hand reaches for a copy of "Patriotic Songs of America" and a brochure on George Washington.
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