Demonstrations in Moscow, Soviet Union during the Lebanon Crisis. A huge crowd in front of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow during a demonstration against sending of American troops to Lebanon. A banner reading 'Hands Off Lebanon'. The plaque of the U.S. Embassy. People hanging signs on the embassy gates. Police trying to control the crowd. Policemen getting a boy down from the gate. A clash between the police and the crowd. The Lebanon coastline. U.S. troops and tanks on a beach. Landing crafts with soldiers arrive on the beach. The soldiers moving in columns. Lebanese people talking to American soldiers. British troops in Jordan unloading supplies from aircraft. Military equipment being loaded in jeep trailers. A large crowd in Syria. President of the United Arab Republic Gamal Abdel Nasser standing with other officials, waves from the balcony of a building. A crowd cheering. Policemen in front of the crowd.
The Soviet celebrates it's 41st anniversary in Moscow, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). Parade passes in Red Square during anniversary of 1917 revolution that put the Bolsheviks in power. People stand on either side of road. Troops march at the parade. Tanks also participate in the parade. Nikita Khrushchev and other notable Party figures watch parade from a stage. Participants stand in formation. Low pressure balloons celebrating success in the Sputnik program are launched. One large balloon is shaped like a Sputnik rocket.
Soviet-United States cultural exchange program in Moscow, Russia. Eric Johnston, President of the Motion Pictures Association of America (MPAA) and Turner Shelton of the United States Information Agency (USIA), are seen together with Russian Deputy Minister of Culture Vladimir Surin (also director of Mosfilm Studios), as they sign an agreement in the Soviet Union (the Lacy-Zarubin Agreement). Documents on the table. Flags of the United States of America and Soviet Union on the table. The agreement will make available ten top Hollywood films for distribution to Soviet movie theaters. The officials stand and shake hands after signing the agreement.
U.S.S.R Aviation Day celebration. Crowd has gathered to see achievements of Soviet air power. The Civil Aviation Programme is supported by Soviet government. Performance by glider team and sailplane squadron doing gymnastics. 04 August 1958.
Communist threat to Berlin, Germany as the Soviet Union presses for a unified Communist Berlin. Traffic signal man demonstrates hand signals on street in West Berlin. View of citizens in West Berlin shopping, engaging in commerce, and going to and from work among newly constructed buildings, improved roads, and wearing new fashions. Sign near the Brandenburg Gate. Contrast is made with East Berlin, East Germany where buildings still in ruin from World War II are shown, including on the famous Unter den Linden Boulevard. Communist East German troops march on road. Woman enters a building and writes on a note pad. East German workers dig with spades at a construction site. The Western Powers get out of free Berlin uniting with the East Berlin under communist rule. Social and economic differences seen contrasting communist versus capitalist systems in Berlin. A woman working alongside men at a construction site.
Development of New Towns in Soviet Union. Rebuilt town of Volzhsky, near Volgograd, Russia. A view of a river and dry land. Bridge under construction across the Volga River. Men work at cranes. A ship underway on the Volga River, beneath the bridge steel cables and skeleton. A view of buildings in the town. Bus on road. People on streets. Traffic on a road. People in a garden. Children outside a building. Children ride bicycle. They are seated. A baby in a pram. A few fountains and a garden. People look at the fountains. Spectators seated in a stand. People on a beach. They play in the water.