Berlin blockade to be lifted. Public and press gathered outside United States Mission building to the United Nations in Lake Success New York, USA. Inside the building, Russian and American dignitaries and UN representatives negotiate an end to the blockade. Closeups of the negotiators, including American diplomat Philip Jessup, Soviet diplomat Yakov Malik, and Sir Alexander Cadogan and Jean Chauvel, the United Nations permanent representatives from England and France, respectively. During the talks, Russia agrees to lift blockade from Berlin, Germany, via the Jessup-Malik Agreement. Dignitaries leave after the conference concludes. A railroad yard in Germany with rail cars filled with coal and other supplies, but idle due to the blockade. View of a busy city street in Berlin and Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in the distance. German pedestrian and vehicular traffic in Berlin.
Citizens of New Jersey, USA participate in mass calisthenics (physical exercise). Men do exercises in an open ground (stadium). Women dance and form circular formations holding together their hands. Spectators cheer from their stands.
Soviet Union explodes an atomic bomb. Newspaper headlines about the explosion. A meeting of the United Nations assembly is held to discuss the issue. They discuss world peace. UN Assembly President Carlos Romulo addresses delegates about world peace. The explosion of the atomic bomb in view. Formation of mushroom cloud due to the explosion.
Ella Fitzgerald, famous African American singer, performs in a recording studio, in New York City, accompanied by jazz artists of Ray Brown trio (unseen). Close view of Ella Fitzgerald smiling. Ella Fitzgerald singing 'how High the Moon'.
Ella Fitzgerald and Ray Brown Trio in recording studio in New York City. Famous African American singer Ella Fitzgerald singing 'how High the Moon'. Jazz bassist Ray Brown plays double bass, Hank Jones plays piano, drummer (unknown) solos. Ella Fitzgerald pausing as the trio members play. Decca recording (single-play, 78 rpm) of "How High the Moon" spinning on phonograph turntable.
U.S. ambassador to Hungary Selden Chapin in New York, United States. Selden Chapin with dignitaries and officials aboard a ship. They all are seated in a hall. Chapin with a woman walks on the deck of a ship. Other officials and dignitaries stand at the deck in the background. Ships underway in the background. Selden and the woman walk on the deck. They talk to each other.