Variety of races, castes, religions and living conditions in India. A missionary family. Children play with a dog in their garden. Three boys enjoy in swimming pool. Trees in the background. Children and women in a flower garden. Children return from boarding school. Children stand on the street. A jeep arrives. Women with their children. Children play. Women sit and play with their children. A man and a woman take their children back to home in the jeep.
People belonging to different castes work in South India. Washermen (dhobi) wash laundry at a small water pool of a meager waterway. They carry laundry on their shoulders and on donkeys. Women at the market. A white woman negotiates with the seller. An artisan makes baskets. A barber shaves the face of his customer. Barber gives the man a manicure, cutting his nails. A potter spins and forms a pot using the potter's wheel. Women stand amidst pots in the market. A cobbler repairs a pair of shoes.
Living conditions of people in villages in India. A girl draws water from a well. Women watch. Water containers near the well. Men walk and play drums. A woman picks lice from the hair of another woman. A girl grinds floor. A child sits nearby. A woman bathes her infant. A boy takes bath. People walk carrying a palanquin.
Britain's Lord Mountbatten offers Indian leaders an unconditional plan for freedom in New Delhi, India. Members of All-India Congress headed by Mohammad Ali Jinnah and Jawaharlal Nehru hear British offer of dominion status.
Events around time of division of India into separate states of India and Pakistan. Lord Mountbatten declares India as a free country in Karachi and New Delhi. Crowd gathers at the India Gate to celebrate the freedom. Lord Mountbatten and Lady Mountbatten in jeep. Celebration in the cities. Mohammad Ali Jinnah addresses people. New flag of Pakistan flies on the flag pole. Officers and Mohammad Ali Jinnah salute. People walk on the street of free India. Jawaharlal Nehru addresses people. Indian flag on the flag pole.
North Korean officials along with their families arrive at the railway station in North Korea.Several people gather to meet and bid farewell. Officials and their families receive bouquets of flowers and farewell from relatives and friends as they depart for czechoslovakia for 5 years.
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