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Film shows contrast between the prewar and postwar times in Germany, before and after the First World War
Two German men at a cafe reminisce about former times. Views of those prewar days (before World War I) in Germany. German Workers pack goods at a factory. Elevated view of German people walking at platforms of a busy railway station and people sit in train. Woman stands and approaches lake beach water, she removes her robe to swim; children play and swim at a beach. Many families cooking on portable stoves near the beach shore. Two women cook and taste food. Boy eats food and view of his family enjoying a meal together. People sit on a wagon. Brief return to restaurant scene with the two men. Then scene of female performer as she blindfolds a male trapeze artists who then performs in a German circus, leaping from a platform in a trapeze act, releasing from the trapeze while blindfolded, and successfully catching the hands of another trapeze artist. Scene switches to postwar era (after World War 1), where the emphasis is on Girls! Numerous scenes of various female dancer groups performing on stage, with high kicks and precision dancing in Follies-type productions. In next scene, outdoors, German soldiers are seen on parade through the Brandenburg Gate. Numerous outdoor scenes of Germans enjoying themselves in Berlin. Many Berlin landmarks and statues shown in the time before World War 2. Scenes include: the Berlin Cathedral; The Poseidon Statue next to Alexander Platz; Brandenburg Gate; Unter den Linden; Lustgarten; a tour bus flying an American flag; and the winged Berlin Victory column rising up, as seen from a moving vehicle.
United States Secretary of States David Dean Rusk addresses journalists after Senate Committee meeting in United States.
United States Secretary of States David Dean Rusk at a press conference after meeting with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Dean Rusk says that he is not going to Moscow for the treaty. Treaty drafted and would be ready in 2-3 days. If everything goes right, the treaty would be signed soon.
Senator J. William Fulbright addresses press, after Committee meeting with Secretary of State about Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
Senator J.William Fulbright at a press conference after meeting of Senate Foreign Relations Committee meeting in United States. Senator William J Fulbright is asked about the result of meeting with the Secretary of State. He replied that it was just the preliminary briefing about status of Nuclear Test Ban Treaty negotiations. He says that the provisions of treaty will be finalized in Moscow. Fulbright notes that the U.S. has initiated consultations for negotiating the final draft. In question. Regarding the person to sign the treaty, he says it is not yet decided . It may be members of committee or Secretary of State or it may be Head of States, and it would be finalized in 2-3 days.
35th anniversary of Wright Brothers' first flight. Advances in travel due to rail and airplane. Howard Hughes' round the world flight.
Film notes 35th anniversary of Wright Brothers' first flight and reviews history of transportation and advances in transportation brought about by railroad and aircraft. An animated map of the United states before the advent of mechanized transport methods. It illustrates the difficult and long overland journey to travel from the East Coast to the West Coast. Travel by horse and wagon over the Santa Fe Trail in 1849 is recreated in a brief film clip. Next, a locomotive is shown pulling a passenger train at high speed along a railroad at the base of a mountain. Animated map charts fairly direct path from Coast to Coast, taking only 4 days by railroad. Next a nearly straight course is traced across the map illustrating the path of an airplane taking only seven and a half hours for the journey. Change of scene shows aerial view of Howard Hughes' Lockheed 14 Super Electra Special, Model 14-N2 ( NX18973), christened "New York World's Fair 1939," in flight over New York harbor with the skyline of Manhattan, New York City in the background. Camera follows the plane as it passes over lower Manhattan. The Empire State building is seen prominently with other skyscrapers below the aircraft. This was filmed, on July 14, 1938, as Hughes and his crew were returning from Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Floyd Bennett Field, on Long Island, at the conclusion of their around-the-world flight (circling the Northern Hemisphere) from July 10 - July 14, 1938.
During World War II, Adolf Hitler and German High Command attend memorial ceremony for German war dead
Nazi War Ensign flying above the Zeughaus (old armory) museum building in Berlin on Heldengedenktag (Day of Commemoration of Heroes) in World War 2. Open car arrives carrying Adolf Hitler. Marshal Hermann Goering salutes with his baton as other German officers render Nazi salute. Hitler and Goering shake hands. Hitler then shakes hands with Marshal Wilhelm Keitel; Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz; SS leader Heinrich Himmler; Marshal Fedor von Bock; Marshal Erhard Milch and a local official. Hitler and Goering lead the group into the museum, past displays of war materiel and a large standing crowd of participants. Hitler and his military entourage are seated as the courtyard is filled by the music of Bruckner's Symphony No.7 in E major. Hitler seems enthralled. Other participants also listen quietly. While music continues, Hitler quietly steps to a podium decorated with the Naval ensign. A mass of flag bearers from units of all armed services stand behind him. He speaks softly about the struggle to defend Europe against the Bolsheviks. He mentions the Wehrmacht and those who have fallen in defense of homeland and people, who will be remembered always, by the nation.
German propaganda film about the battle of Belgium commencing 10 May 1940, in World War II
Film opens with date: 10 May 1940 (date of the German invasion of Luxembourg, Holland, and Belgium, in World War 2). Huge precise formation of German soldiers is shown. Alternating closeups of individual soldiers and camera pans across the formation. Animated map shows Germany, Belgium, France and Holland, plus Rein River, City of Lille, and Paris. It shows positions of English and French armies, ostensibly attacking from France, across Belgium and Holland, toward the German Ruhr region (but actually moving to repulse the German offensive). Belgian troops advancing on motorcycles past sandbagged buildings. The French border being opened followed by many French military vehicles, including trucks, trailers, artillery pieces, and some French Lorraine 37 tracked vehicles. A steam locomotive pulls a boxcar troop train. French and British Expeditionary Forces seen on the train. Many of the Allied soldiers sit in its doorways with their legs dangling. A French Char B1 heavy tank rumbles along a road. French light tanks. More views of Allied troops, including French Colonials, marching through towns and villages. Closeup of the Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force, General the Viscount Lord Gort, with another British Commander. British troops in armored personnel carriers. British troops participating in Battle of France seen marching as someone is heard singing in background, about "washing day on the Siegfried line." Several British self-propelled heavy guns in motion. German army engineers detonating a charge followed by large explosions.
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