Major events of the year 1957. People gather in large numbers to mourn the death of the President Ramon Magsaysay of the Philippines after a plane crash. President Ramon Magsaysay on board a ship. President Magsaysay meets crowds of Filipino civilians. President Magsaysay receives a kiss and a hug from his wife Luz Magsaysay and their daughter Teresita. Aga Khan III, Imam of the Shia Muslims dies as family members mourns his death. Men carry the casket of Aga Khan's body. Women offer prayers. Karim Aga Khan succeeds him as Aga Khan IV.
A film 'This Is My Home' shows the life of a farmer and his family under democratic rule in the Philippines. Nipa huts in a rural settlement (called a “barrio”) in the Philippines. A hand made nipa hut (known as a “bahay kubo”) by the Philippine farmer. A Filipino woman, wearing a traditional Baro’t Saya attire, walks around in the house to check her sleeping husband, two sons, and a daughter. The woman opens her sliding Capiz shell-framed window before preparing breakfast for her family. The man wakes up. A white rooster crows. The farmer smokes a cigarette, pets his white rooster before taking his buffalo to a field. The farmer places a yoke on the buffalo, giving it a bath. He plows the field with the help of his buffalo. Another farmer helps him. Both the farmers stand to pray as church bells ring in the evening. The Philippine family eats a meal together at the end of the day.
The life of a Philippine farmer and his family under Communist rule in the Philippines. The Communists with guns in hand make the farmer work on a collective field and take possession of his house. Communist members frisk the farmers after finishing their day's work. Soldiers confront a farmer looking at a pet rooster that the communists confiscated, beats up a farmer after pilfering a mango fruit. Philippine children being taken away from their home and taken to Communists centers for training. A woman cries after soldiers take away her children. Communists soldiers misbehave with a young waitress. A portrait of Joseph Stalin is seen in the restaurant. A Filipino farmer warns his friend from praying while being watched by Communist soldiers. Philippine farmer with his family under democratic rule. Filipino man affectionately holding his wife while sitting in a veranda. A young Filipino couple laughing in a garden.
UN General Assembly seen meeting in 1954 as it approves an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge II, and French ambassador, Henri Hoppenot, speaking. Finn Moe, of Norway, speaking. View of the city of Kjeller, Norway. Flags of Norway and the Netherlands at joint atomic laboratory. Scientists with various pieces of scientific equipment inside the facility. Indian ambassador, Krishna Menon, speaking at the United Nations. Atomic laboratory and a Government Teachers' Training College, in India. Indian scientists in a laboratory. Indian lecturer speaks to students. Brazil's Professor Ernesto Leme speaks at the UN. The city of Sao Paulo, Brazil. The University of Sao Paulo. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Center for Physical Research. Clock tower of Brazil Central Station in Rio. Sutan Sjahrir,of Indonesia at the United Nations. An animated map shows nations interested in atomic energy. The UN Headquarters building on the East River in New York. A person looking through a microscope. Foreign scientists attending indoctrination courses at the U.S. Argonne National Laboratory. Diplomats sign agreement between the U.S. and Philippines on July 27, 1955, for the Philippines to lease uranium for a research nuclear reactor, and to receive technical assistance. Views of Geneva Switzerland in August 1955, including street views with pedestrians, and tram or streetcar on city streets. Exterior of Palace of Nations, then interior view with atomic science conference in progress. Indian nuclear physicist, Homi Jehangir Bhabha, presiding over conference of scientists and university representatives from 73 nations, including, inter alia, John Cockcroft, of Great Britain; Otto Hahn, of Germany; Willard Libby, of the U.S.A.; Vladimir Vexler of the Soviet Union; and Niels Bohr of Denmark. Views of exhibit hall at the conference, and displayed models of nuclear reactors, uranium ore refining exhibits, and accelerators. U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower views swimming pool reactor, while visiting the exhibit hall. Site work and construction underway in Meyrin, Geneva, Switzerland for a research laboratory for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN - Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire). Sitework seen for a facility of Euratom in Europe (European Atomic Energy Community). View of early sitework in Manila for an Asian nuclear center in the Philippines under the Colombo plan, for training personnel in nuclear science and technology.