A view of the Russian Tower of Liberation. North Korean Army's Second Anniversary is celebrated at Pyongyang Rail Road Station Yard in North Korea. Thousands of North Korean soldiers stand up at attention. Prime minister Kim II Sung, and several Russian and Korean officers stand in review stands. Civilians gather in numbers at the event. Army Chief Chai Yong Kyon on horse back rides past the troops. PM Kim II Sung addresses the army and gives a speech. He receives bouquet of flowers from some officer after his speech. Korean soldiers hold Russian style weapons. North Korean bands play National Anthem. March 1948.
Speaking before United Nations Atomic Energy Commission (UNAEC) in its first meeting in June 1946, Bernard Baruch proposes international control of all atomic energy -- the so-called Baruch Plan. Low level aerial view of ruined post World War 2 European city. Goods including heavy equipment, locomotives, being loaded aboard ships to aid in the postwar recovery of Europe (The Marshall Plan). Workers in Western Europe making use of Marshall Plan materials to rebuild their national infrastructures. West European farmers restoring agriculture. View from overflying light airplane of parts of postwar Berlin in 1948. Blocked roads and empty railroad tracks leading from East Germany to West Germany, blocked by the Soviet Union. Barge traffic at standstill due to Soviet actions. U.S. C-54 transport aircraft flying supplies into West Berlin (The Berlin Airlift) during the Soviet blockade of that city. West Berlin citizens watching U.S. transport aircraft bringing fuel, food and other essentials into the isolated city. A C-54 flying low over empty railroad lines, as it prepares to land in West Berlin. Supplies offloaded from a DC-3 ( AKA C-47 or British Dakota) equipped with unusual set of rear cargo doors. Supplies being moved on Tegel Airport with many C-54 aircraft in the background. Numerous C-47 aircraft operating at Tempelhof airport. An East German official opening a barricade as Soviet blockade of West Berlin ends on May 12, 1949, and supply trucks begin to move over roads again. Flags of Western nations flying on high flagpoles. Glimpse of Allied warships underway during the Cold War. Formation of P-38 Lightning aircraft in flight overhead. NATO troops marching and NATO armor on parade. Flashes of heavy artillery firing at night. Korean refugees moving South in 1950 with the outbreak of the Korean War. View of UN Security Council meeting in the absence of Soviet representative. U.S. tanks firing guns and American infantrymen in conflict with North Korea in Korean War. American wounded on stretchers.Delegates of both North and South Korea signing the Korean Armistice Agreement in P'anmunjŏm, on July 27, 1953. A rocket is launched. Images of earth from inside a space craft in orbit. Narrator mentions the first satellite to circle the earth, the soviet Sputnik 1 in 1957. View of Soviet pilots in low pressure altitude chamber. A test subject in an aircraft making a maneuver that allows him to experience "weightlessness." Objects in his cockpit float about. A military rocket launch monitored by arrays of radar. An object being retrieved from space by means of a parachute. A nuclear powered submarine. Rockets on display during a military parade in Red Square, Moscow, the Soviet Union. A U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber taxiing. More views of rockets seen during a Soviet military parade in Red Square, Moscow.
A film based on Soviet occupation of North Korea after World War II. Mountaintops above the clouds. View of a waterfall. A Korean student studying in a Russian medical school. Engineers, technical workers, both men and women, studying in a Russian school. Students look through microscopes. A North Korean cultural group visits Moscow, Soviet Union. After returning from the Soviet Union, the cultural ambassador extols Soviet system to workers in a factory yard. Korean farmers plowing. The Koreans measure the land and make a land report. View of a giant dam, high-tension wires and dynamos in North Korea.
Koreans arrive in numbers at an Art Exhibition held on the Independence Day in North Korea (also known as Liberation Day, celebrating Korea's liberation from Japan). Various works of art and craft is at display. Paintings depicting Stalin,Kim II Sung,Korean laborers and farms can be seen.
A film based on Soviet occupation of North Korea after World War II. North Korean workers in a steel mill. Girls in a classroom. A girl writes word 'Stalin' on a blackboard in Russian. Students at microscopes in a university class. A school for the national Korean dance. Korean artists dramatizing Russian aid and the Communist system. Several drawings. Two artists work at a table, a picture of Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in the background. Korean translators work on the translation of modern Russian works into Korean. The first book is the biography of Joseph Stalin. The Koreans vote in Communist election. A man puts his vote in a ballot box. He is followed by a woman carrying a child on her back who does the same.
The eve of Independence Day (or Liberation Day) in Pyongyang,North Korea. Shows various events being held at a Sports Festival at the Pyongyang Stadium. Athletes take part in various events like javelin throw, discus, long jump, pole vault, track race, boxing and others.Spectators gather in large numbers and cheer for their favorites. The festival is part of celebration marking the anniversary of Korea's liberation from Japan.