Film opens showing a U.S. Air Transport Command C-54 aircraft taxiing in to park at the Washington National airport, Washington, DC. Next, U.S. Secretary of State, James F. Byrnes, leaves the aircraft and descends steps, followed by a Congressional delegation, including Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg. The airport ramp is crowded with Army Air Forces personnel, photographers, and news reporters. Other Air Forces members watch from in front of the Army Air Forces Transport Command Terminal in the background. Closeup of Byrnes greeting several men in the crowd. Part of the sequence repeats again.
British Army Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery with U.S. Generals in Nieuwkerk, Germany during World War II. Montgomery, U.S. Army Lt. General William H. Simpson and U.S. Army Major General John B. Anderson come out from XVI Corps Headquarters. A soldier takes pictures in the foreground. British soldiers stand in front of the headquarters. Montgomery, Simpson and Anderson standing with other officers. Montgomery looks around and speaks to U.S. Generals. Montgomery, Simpson and Anderson escorted by an officer walk along a road. Buildings and soldiers in the background. They enter the headquarters and come out. A car parked in the foreground. The three of them stand together and talk. Montgomery puts on his coat while talking.
The 42nd National Automobile Show at the New York Coliseum (present day site of Time Warner Center. 10 Columbus Cir, New York, NY 10019, United States), December 8-16, 1956. A sign above an escalator at the entrance reads 'National Automobile Show'. A model wearing a swimsuit seated on the hood of a 1957 Desoto convertible. Two women seated in a 1957 Chrysler 300C. Aerial view of the Buick exhibit, with the 1957 Buick Roadmaster Convertible prominently displayed. An executive version of the 1957 Cadillac features a typewriter in the back seat and a record player in the front dash. Auto executives gathered at a display featuring a row of steering wheels. President of Chrysler Lester Lum Colbert hails the future in a statement.
Three Uniformed women in the U.S.Coast Guard Women's Reserve (SPARS) arrive at the entrance of a Coast Guard Station, during World War 2. The station includes a light house. Next, a Coast Guardsman explains the light to them as they stand on a platform at its top. Scene shifts to about a dozen SPARS women boarding a Coast Guard training ship. Some of them ascend rope ladders in the ship's rigging. Three of them drive away in a blue Coast Guard jeep, up a dirt road to a waterfront. There, while standing in a boat (unseen but moving up and down) a Coast officer converses with one of them while referring to a chart. The next scene shows the three women on top deck of a Coast Guard Fireboat, where a Coast Guardsman demonstrates one of their firefighting water guns. The water pressure is increased, creating a powerful stream of water. Scene shifts to about 25 SPARS women assembled on a lawn in front of a frame building. A woman officer motions them into formation and reads orders. Next, from viewpoint, above, the formation of SPARS women is seen marching along with Coast Guardsmen in a parade.
A film shows the historical places in Taiwan, during Japanese colonial administration. Buildings of Taipei. Bank of Taiwan building. Traffic in front of the building. A view of the building. The building of Ministry of Transportation and Commerce. The Legislature building. The Town Hall building. The Health Shrine. A bell hanged on a rope inside the shrine. The Botanical Garden. Variety of plants grown in the garden. A historical building.
Taiwanese people attend a Chinese New Year festival parade in Taipei, Formosa (present day Taipei, Taiwan) during Japanese colonial rule in World War II. A busy street. Crowds convene on the sidewalk to watch a festival. A Japanese ice cream shop behind crowds. A group of men perform a serpentine-like dragon dance. A man performs acrobatics in front of a group performing a lion dance. Man performs lion dance. A boy pushes an artillery gun. A man with a papier-mâché donkey costume. Signs and banners depicting Chinese products such as Tiger Balm ointment. Chinese women dressed in elaborate traditional costumes on top of floats. Men carry an intricate model of a pagoda. A float of a symbolic god. People performing dance in the parade. The Taiwanese people watch the parade. A policeman stands in the foreground. People on the streets and decorative floats in the parade.
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