Herbert Hoover visits Argentina during his tenure as Secretary of Commerce. The secretary, later President Herbert Hoover, walks beside President Hipólito Yrigoyen, surrounded by other officials. A year later, visiting delegates from the Second Pan American Highway Congress are seen walking toward the entrance of the President's home to pay respects to President Yrigoyen. Christopher Columbus monuments behind the Casa Rosada (Casa de Gobierno, Balcarce 78, C1064 Cdad. Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina) in Buenos Aires. Scene changes to the Puerto Nuevo port on La Plata River. Electric cranes and lighting equipment at shipyard. Crane transfers goods from docks to waiting ships. Ships docked at harbor. Horses take rest. The "Frigorifico La Negra" refrigerating plant for chilling and freezing meats, and a Wool warehouse.
The Argentine Pavillion from the 1889 Paris Exposition at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Ornate mausoleums of the Recoleta Cemetery. People walk and shop at an outdoor market in Buenos Aires. Traffic in downtown district, mixing pedestrians, horses, horse carts, cars and trucks. Workers widen Santa Fe Street. Vehicles drive past on Avenida Alvear that leads to Palermo.
Visiting delegates from the Second Pan American Highway Congress travel in cars and inspect rural road work in Argentina. Workers construct the highway between Moron and Lujan in Argentina. Cluster of houses in Cordoba. A vehicle approaches a railroad grade crossing. Cars and horse carts along the road from Cordoba to Alta Gracia.
Sierras Tourist Hotel and golf course at Alta Gracia, Argentina. Country houses at Villa Allende. A large rock crushing plant on the Villa Allende-Cordoba road at Unquilla. Narrow stretch of road from Cordoba to Santa Fe. Tourists get down from ferry across the Parana River between Sante Fe and Parana. Monument of General Urquiza in Parana.
Extensive road building program in the Province of Entre Rios, Argentina. Vehicles drive past on the road from Parana to Viale. Gauchos (Argentinian cowboys) on horses along a dirt road. Visiting delegation from Second Pan American Highway Congress inspects construction of bridge over the Gaulaguay River at Tala. Visitors walk across railroad. Workers construct the bridge road. Workmen make a fill over a culvert on the Villaguay-Concordia road. Cars drive past. Entre Rios provincial maintenance crew at work on a road of medium traffic. Clip ends with a brief shot of car traffic on roads in Buenos Aires, with a tall monument in the distance.
Propaganda film made for the U.S. Defense Department during Cold War, entitled “Freedom and You.” Opening scene shows a typical town in the United States, except that soldiers are patrolling and sandbags and barbed wire fencing are seen in places. Narrator, Jack Webb, approaches the camera with comment: “Frightening isn’t it.” Overview of the town. Views through barbed wire of an armed soldier and local people. Ordinary automobile traffic on the street. (Narrator suggests that this town could created somewhere in the Soviet Union to teach young Communists about the United States.) View inside an ice cream parlor with soda jerk serving customers. Numerous views typical of what one would find in an American town: Inside a bank; White Church steeple seen through trees; men conversing in ice cream parlor; inside of a supermarket; (Communist civilian chatting with soldier near barbed wire fence); a baseball game; A tray of hot dogs; school building with students outside; (Teacher inside discussing explosives and listening devices.) Teacher and students in chemistry lab; Slate identifies film title: “Freedom and You.” Boy playing with his dog is chastised by his mother; Young couple conversing over car with open hood; Man going to work kisses his daughter; Men at work in a machine shop; An airmen, marines, and a woman at a table on an air base; KC-97 aerial refueling aircraft in background; Young couple sitting in hotrod car watching as a man races a Chevy Corvette car on the runway. Group at the table give woman timing report; A single engine Beechcraft airplane on the runway; Young couple kiss in front of a M101 105mm howitzer sitting in a building; They speak with an Army officer about postponing his active duty. More views of machine shop; Family at dinner saying goodnight to small children; Father talking with small boy wearing Cub Scout cap; Film is interrupted with a dream sequence showing Communist Martial law imposed on the town. Effects are shown in small vignettes of ordinary life. The machine shop now displays a sign with the day’s production quota. Children being packed to go away to a State School. Father rebels and is seized by military guards. The church is closed for worship, and now houses a Soviet museum. Father stands trial before a military court for rebelling against the Communist State. Family testifies against him. He is sentenced to be shot. He gives impassioned speech about freedom. He is hauled into a room and is shot by a soldier with a pistol. Film ends as he wakes from his nightmare and finds everything back to normal.
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