The 1948 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Delegates enter the convention hall. Posters of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman. A sign reads 'I'm wild about Harry'. Signs read names of different states in the U.S. U.S. Senate Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley delivers a speech at the convention as he talks about administration under democratic leadership.
Buildings in Richmond, Virginia. A car is driven down Three Chopt Road (or Three Notch'd Road) in Richmond. View of the Country Club of Virginia (The CCV or Virginia Country Club) as seen from entrance driveway. Several large homes and estates in the Richmond area. Water gushes through spillways at a pumping station as a military guard stands by (slate indicates it is "Well guarded from German plotters" as footage is from World War I).
The flight tests on United States Air Force(USAF) aircraft X-1A and X-10 at the Edwards Air Force base in California, United States. The U.S. Air Force F-86 Sabre, F-84 Thunderjet, F-86D Sabre, F-89 Scorpion, F-102 Delta Dagger lined up on the ramp. Another aircraft at a distance. The B-29 Superfortress with X-1A installed in bomb bay. X-1A in a cutaway bomb bay of B-29. The crew members of the B-29 and X-1A include U.S. Air Force Major General Charles Elwood Yeager (Chuck Yeager) as he picks up a helmet and a parachute. The crew members walk towards the aircraft. B-29 with X-1A takes off. B-29 with X-1A climbs for altitude. B-29 in flight with X-1A attached to bomb bay and fuselage. The X-1A drops away from B-29. The rocket engine of the X-1A started and it continues flying. The F-86 Sabre behind the X-1A. The contrail of X-1A . The contrails of B-29. The F-86 diving and turning. Ground in the background. X-1A lands on desert. A group of personnel around the X-1A. Chuck Yeager in the cockpit of the X-1A. He climbs out and jumps on the ground.
Group of workers walk beside a farmer plowing a field with a disc cultivator pulled by a D6 Caterpillar diesel tractor. The manual workers appear to be discarding clumps of grass or other undesired material. In contrast, two other farmers are seen plowing nearby using primitive wooden plows pulled by horses. One of them stops to repair his wooden plow, striking it with a stone to tighten it.
Hollywood stars (members of the newly formed, Committee for the First Amendment) visit Washington D.C. to express their objections to the actions of the House Unamerican Activities Committee (HUAC). Opening scene shows movie stars Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall on a sidewalk at Indendence Avenue in Washington, DC, Southeast of the Capitol building which is seen behind them. A police car is parked at the curb and an officer is standing in the street. Next, they are seen posing with Hollywood personalities, including Danny Kaye and June Havoc, among others. Views of the group from different angles, and from behind a group of photographers taking pictures. Then they begin to walk towards the location of the HUAC hearings, with Bogart and Bacall in the lead. They proceed up the steps of the building. Scene shifts to the hearing room inside, where Screen writer, John Howard Lawson, is being sworn in. He begins to testify. During his testimony, the Chairman, Representative John Parnell Thomas, of New Jersey, finds it neccessary to gavel for order and appears to berate the witness. Lawson leaves the witness chair and departs. Another view of the hearing room.
The U.S. 1st Cavalry Division prior to the Siege of Plei Me in Pleiku, Vietnam. Trucks on the road. Soldiers walk towards the trucks in the foreground. A wounded sergeant being attended by medics in field. A medic works on the sergeants leg. Wrecked truck hit by a land mine. A wounded sergeant lying on ground and smoke a cigarette. The Sergeant is lifted on litter and carried to Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopter. Wounded sergeant is taken out from Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopter and is carried to ambulance in Pleiku. A sign reads 'Camp Holloway Dispensary,52D Med Sect,94th MedDet(OA).' (Vietnam War period).
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