American Navy Cruiser underway off the coast of United States. The Navy demonstrates a protective measure against radio active fallout. Huge sprinklers and water cannons aboard a cruiser and an aircraft carrier bathe their entire surfaces in a moving mist of seawater. This will wash any radioactive particles overboard to avoid contamination.
U.S. President Dwight David Eisenhower watches as U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles shoots skeet from the fantail of a U.S. Navy warship. A navy man prepares the shotgun for the President to use. Navy men click pictures in the background.
African ceremonial masks on a wall in the United States. A sculpture on a wall shows a face surmounted by horns and a human female figure. Another mask sculpture on the wall. The mouth of the sculpture moves.
The role of women in the United States Army. A tent in snow. WAC maneuvers in arctic conditions.A woman soldier brings plates outside the tent. Women wash the plates. Women wear arctic protective gear. A woman wears skis. Women learn skiing. Women learn to wear ski shoes. A woman loads pack on the back of another woman. Women march on snow. Woman cook. Tokyo: Women site seeing. Woman in a hand rickshaw. Woman bargains with the shopkeeper. Paris: women walk in pairs. View of the Eiffel tower. Women view the statue of Venus de Milo. Women skiing. Women watch ice hockey. Germany: Women stationed near Garmisch-Partenkirchen ride in a mountain cable car and arriving at a mountain top station (this appears to be the wooden cable car from BadReichenhall to Predigstuhl Mountain, sometimes called the Grand Dame of the Alps). Women work in office. Women treat soldiers in dispensary. Nurse teaches soldier to walk. Woman take x ray of a soldier.
The role of women in army in the United States. The Women's Army Corps (WAC) band plays and marches during the 51st Birthday celebration of the Women's Army Nurse corps. A nurse treats a soldier. U.S. army general Matthew Bunker Ridgway speaks about the contribution of the army nurses in various fields.
Part of film tracing history of Thanksgiving Day in America. Opening scene shows forests in late summer, and then winds blowing and some leaves beginning to fall. A traditional single family home is seen and a family inside preparing their table for a Thanksgiving dinner. The six members of the family include a Mother, a Father, an older son, a teenage daughter, a young son, and an older woman (Grandmother, or Aunt). View of roasted Thanksgiving Turkey. The father leads the family in saying grace. A painting of the First Thanksgiving (1915), by American artist Jean Louis Gerome Ferris, is shown. Views of fields of corn and grain. Scene shifts to a 17th Century ship carrying the same 6-member family (dressed as Pilgrims) to America from Europe. Members of the family are seen planting seed for crops. The date 1621 appears superimposed upon scenes of crops ready for harvesting. Inside their log home, the father and youngest son engage in extended discussions, after which, the father gives the boy permission to go somewhere. The painting of the First Thanksgiving is shown again. Then the pioneer settlers, both men and women, fell and carry trees to build a church. View of a remarkably well built church and then of the family praying inside along with other pioneer settlers.