Events related to the Yalta Conference held at the Livadiya Palace in Livadiya, Crimea, Ukraine during World War II. Exteriors of the Livadiya Palace. Sign board shows directions. Russian troops march down a road with their bayonets raised high. Palace guard directs traffic. Pedestrian and vehicular traffic outside the Palace. Sign-board at an entrance reads, 'Entrance to Canteen Barber Shop Sick Bay'. Russian officers exit the entrance.
Events related to the Yalta Conference held at the Livadia Palace (Baturyna St, 44-а, Livadiya, 98655) in Livadiya, Crimea, Ukraine. U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt and his entourage arrive by Jeeps at the Palace. Army General accompanied by three women makes way toward the Palace. Exteriors and interiors of the Palace. General Secretary, Community Party of Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin, and his party arrive at the Palace. View of the conference being held inside the Palace. (World War II period)
Events related to the Yalta Conference held at the Livadiya Palace in Livadiya, Crimea, Ukraine. General Secretary, Community Party of Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin and aides exit the place after the conference. British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill smokes a cigar. He is accompanied with his daughter. Dignitaries leave in their cars. Churchill and aides exit the place and leave in their cars.
National leaders of Great Britain, United States of America and Soviet Union meet during the Yalta Conference at Crimea in Ukraine. Foreign secretaries of the three Allied nations Stettinius, Eden and Molotov meet at Malta. General George C Marshal meets with the secretaries. Meeting of the secretaries at Montgomery house at Malta. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill disembarks from a plane for Yalta Conference. U.S. President Franklin D Roosevelt arrives with his daughter. The dignitaries review an honor guard. Soviet Premiere Joseph Stalin arrives and the Big Three during the meeting at conference hall in the summer palace of Czar Nicholas. Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin pose for a group photograph and military generals stand behind them. (World War II period).
Small U.S. military honor guard assembles at Saki airport in Yalta, Crimea, Ukraine to greet President Franklin Roosevelt and party who will be arriving on a flight from Malta. They form up near a parked U.S. Air Force C-47. The President's 4-engine VC-54C is seen on final approach. It lands and and taxis in. Palm trees seen in distance. Field is under construction. Several people deplane. Air Force officers standing by car on tarmac. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, daughter of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, descends ladder from the parked VC-54C Presidential aircraft (nicknamed the "Sacred Cow"). President Roosevelt is seen after being seated in front seat of car, next to young soldier driver to whom he speaks. They drive off, preceded and followed by jeeps, carrying other members of the Presidential party. (World War II period).
Film starts showing view from a hilltop of the port of Yalta, Crimea, during World War 2. A Soviet soldier stands behind barbed wire next to several street signs. One points toward Livadia (site of the Yalta Conference). A woman with a small child walks along a winding sidewalk overlooking the port. The Medved'-gora (Bear mountain) is seen in the background. A motorcycle with sidecar drives down a road. A Soviet soldier walks past destroyed structure. Camera pans over other destroyed buildings. Street scene showing three-story apartment buildings with porches, lining the road and pedestrians walking along the street and sidewalks. No motor vehicles are seen. Closeup of civilians standing in a group that includes several men, a woman, and some school age children. A boy in the group wears a military style cap. Children gather near a cartoon poster depicting Adolf Hitler with bandages on his head. Two Soviet men converse near the displays. Another cartoon poster with 1941 on it, shows Hitler and his cronies using periscopic artillery binoculars as they hungrily eye the Kremlin as a target. Below it in juxtaposition, with date 1945, is a cartoon showing Hitler in rubble, completely overwhelmed by Soviet military might. A woman with a boy and girl are seen at an open shop window where a woman is dispensing drinks. The boy is drinking one and the woman gets one too.