Japanese Premier Hideki Tojo attempts suicide in Japan. People walk outside a hospital. A sign board reads' U.S. 98th Evacuation Hospital'. Sergeant John Archinal gives blood to save Tojo. The doctors perform blood transfusion. A close view of Sergeant John Archinal. The gun from which Tojo shot himself. The troops look out from a window. The doctors treat Tojo in the hospital. A close up view of Tojo. Tojo on a bed in the 98th Field Evacuation Hospital. 1st Lt. Rebecca Schmidt, Hideki Tojo’s nurse, stands by his bedside. A view of the damaged buildings. The troops look at the damaged Imperial Diet building 1 Chome-7-1 Nagatachō, Chiyoda City, Tokyo 100-0014, Japan). Japanese Emperor Hirohito visits the damaged city before the surrender in World War II. The emperor looks at a chart on a table. His sub ordinates stand in the background. The U.S. troops read a sign which reads 'No Trespassing The Emperors palace'. Japanese boys bowing in front of the Imperial Palace. The Japanese people read bulletins. A woman distributes newspapers on the street in Tokyo. People crowd outside a movie theater. Japanese moviegoers buy tickets from a booth. A Japanese elderly man walking. The people wait for a tram or trolley or streetcar. They get in the tram. American troops ride the tram. Admiral William “Bull” Halsey rides a white horse. Admiral Halsey stands beside the horse and smokes. He sits on horseback and rides the horse.
A documentary 'The Years of Decision' reviews the beginning of the Marshall Plan in response to post war needs of the European people. People walk on a street. Vehicles driving past on a road in the background. A man buy things from a stall. Women and a man seated in an open air restaurant. Products displayed at a roadside. A woman stands in front of her shop. People walk in the market. A woman buys fruits. Women buy textile and clothing from a shop. Men ride bicycles on a road. A man works in a factory. A building. Coal miners sitting in a train headed towards a mine. A steel mechanic at a factory in Italy makes cars with steel from abroad. Cattle on a farm. A farmer grows food with the help of a tractor.
A documentary depicts the effect of the Marshall Plan on the lives of people during the first year of its implementation in Europe. A ship at a dock. Men unload sulphur from the ship. A framers sprays sulpahte in a field. A boat underway. Norwegian fishermen aboard the boat are fishing. A fishing net in water. Fishes in the net. A fisherman empties a box containing fishes. People at work in fish canning industry. Women working in Norway put fish in tins. Women packing fishes in cans. The packed cans on display in a shop. A woman buys packed fish cans. The packed cans on a table of a shop in Britain. A man selling spaghetti at a store in Italy. Cattle at a dairy. Tractors in front of a house. A farmer man sits on a tractor. Animated map shows export of tractors from the U.S. to France. Animation depicts contribution of the people for the recovery program. A man ploughs a field with the help of a tractor. A power plant in France. Men at work in the plant. Men construct highways with the help of modern machinery in Greece. Men at work. Construction of new houses for homeless people. Men at work. A man makes shoes. People at work in a shoe factory. Shoes at display in a shop. A man looks at the displayed shoes in a store. Increase in production in different sectors after the implementation of the Marshall Plan. Food kept on a table. Coal production increased to 11%. Coal being shoveled by hand. Textile production increased to 18%. Steel production increased to 40%. A railroad train moves on tracks. Man in Italy plays bocci ball with his unemployed friends. A British family eating food in their kitchen. A French family eating food during a meal in France. Members of a union seated around a table. A coal miner works in a mine. A man plows a field.
German citizens collect winter clothes for German soldiers in Germany during World War II. A sculpture made up of metal. The scrap metal is donated to the soldiers for making weapons. A man pushes a trolley filled with scrap metal. He empties the trolley. A man puts the metal into fire to melt. The molten metal is being prepared for making weapons. A textile manufacturing plant. A woman arranges old clothes. She puts them in a machine. Machines in the factory. Textiles are prepared in the factory for making uniforms of soldiers. German citizens donate money. Newspaper headlines about giving winter clothes for the soldiers at front. A woman gives winter clothes for the soldiers. Another woman giving winter clothes to a man. An officer holding winter clothes walks up to a trolley full of clothes. He keeps the clothes in the trolley. The officer and a woman looking at the winter clothes. People walk on a street. German citizens donate old clothes. A woman collects clothes. The winter clothes collected for soldiers.
A documentary shows U.S. Army Major General Hugh L. Scott and U.S. Representative from Montana Scott Leavitt meeting Native American Indian chiefs at Fort Browning in Montana to evolve methods of perpetuating the Indian sign language in the 1930s. The Indian chieftains of various tribes assemble in front of tents for the council. U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Interior Joseph M. Dixon and Scott Leavitt meet the Indian chieftains. They all enter a Piegan council lodge which is the meeting place. General Scott and Indian chieftains seated inside the lodge for the council. General Scott opens the council and uses sign language to tell his objective. Dick Washakie of the Shoshone tribe speaks using the Indian sign language. General Scott translates stories simultaneously. A short face Piegan tribal speaks using sign language.
A Bell Aerosystems Rocket belt is flown by pilot Bob Courter in Mexico as a demonstration for the Alliance of Progress initiated by U.S. President John F. Kennedy to establish economic cooperation between North and South America. The jet pack demonstration takes place in Mexico City. The clip begins with a shot of a man holding balloons as he walks off. People and a helicopter in the foreground. Two technicians wearing Bell Aerosystems uniforms help pilot Bob Courter adjust the Bell Rocketbelt before he takes off in front of the assembled crowd, and flies over a field for the gathered crowd while wearing the jetpack.
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