Shows arrival and speech of Kim II Sung Prime Minister of North Korea. Russian scientist giving Korean students lectures in biochemistry. Scenes of North Korean Students at heavily crowded railway station leaving to Russia. Students performing experiments in chemistry lab and on lab-rats. Shows group of Russian doctors and nurses aiding women and children at a factory yard and inside a hospital.1948.
Shows Korean girls making elaborated embroidered scarves. Scenes of girls doing needlework and pictures of Stalin. Shows sample of pottery and bas relief praising Stalin. A Korean artist paints. Korean men manufacture busts with molds and do engraving on slates. Several Korean handicrafts in a room. Russian Army gathers for a celebration held prior to their withdrawal from North Korea.1948.
Soviet scouts and officers line up in rows. Bands mark the opening of an award ceremony on the withdrawal of Soviets from North Korea. Vice Premier Hong Myung He presents Soviet Army and Naval officers with Liberation Medals. Several medals in boxes can be seen on the presentation desk. Scouts help in putting medals on each other. Hong Myung He awards medal to a Soviet lady officer. Awarded comrades congratulate each other.1948.
Shows Prime Minister Kim II Sung speaking on the podium at the North Korean Assembly held to draft Constitution in North Korea. Several dignitaries,reporters and press officials present at the event. Flags of South Korea and Soviet Union can be seen in the backdrop. Other dignitaries take the microphone to make their speeches. Reporters take down the speeches on their notepads.1948.
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.