People gather to watch the Winter Olympics in Canada. A man hoists the Olympic flag on a pole. A huge torch burning on the inauguration day. One of the previous Olympic winners gives a brief speech. Women in uniform march. Participants march while onlookers and dignitaries watch them.
A film 'This Is My Home' shows the life of a farmer and his family under democratic rule in the Philippines. Nipa huts in a rural settlement (called a “barrio”) in the Philippines. A hand made nipa hut (known as a “bahay kubo”) by the Philippine farmer. A Filipino woman, wearing a traditional Baro’t Saya attire, walks around in the house to check her sleeping husband, two sons, and a daughter. The woman opens her sliding Capiz shell-framed window before preparing breakfast for her family. The man wakes up. A white rooster crows. The farmer smokes a cigarette, pets his white rooster before taking his buffalo to a field. The farmer places a yoke on the buffalo, giving it a bath. He plows the field with the help of his buffalo. Another farmer helps him. Both the farmers stand to pray as church bells ring in the evening. The Philippine family eats a meal together at the end of the day.
The life of a Philippine farmer and his family under Communist rule in the Philippines. The Communists with guns in hand make the farmer work on a collective field and take possession of his house. Communist members frisk the farmers after finishing their day's work. Soldiers confront a farmer looking at a pet rooster that the communists confiscated, beats up a farmer after pilfering a mango fruit. Philippine children being taken away from their home and taken to Communists centers for training. A woman cries after soldiers take away her children. Communists soldiers misbehave with a young waitress. A portrait of Joseph Stalin is seen in the restaurant. A Filipino farmer warns his friend from praying while being watched by Communist soldiers. Philippine farmer with his family under democratic rule. Filipino man affectionately holding his wife while sitting in a veranda. A young Filipino couple laughing in a garden.
Opening scene shows the commercial ship, Imerethie II, tied up to a pier at her homeport, Marseille, France, on a misty day. Camera pans along the wharf briefly, where small boats are tied. Large ships are seen moving in the port in the background throughout the film. Scene shifts to another area of the port where a German Zerstörer 1934 class destroyer is seen docked. Crew members are seen moving about on deck. Next, two armed Spanish civil war combatants, in utility coats and stocking caps are seen in closeup, stepping up to a dock and taking up positions as walking sentries. Two more Spanish combatants are also seen, one, possibly a flier, wearing a Nationalist officer's side cap.
U.S. paratroopers descend from U.S. Army Air Force C-47 Skytrain aircraft in Germany during World War II. Day light close up view just outside aircraft door as paratroopers jump from aircraft and descend to ground. Aerial view of green fields on the ground. The paratroopers land next to a small village.
Amelia Earhart and her crew take off from the U.S. Naval Air Station, Oakland, California, to begin their flight around the world. Views from another aircraft as their Lockheed Electra flies low over Western Span of the Bay Bridge and San Francisco, heading West toward the Pacific Ocean. Scene on the ground, several days earlier, Paul Mantz and Amelia Earhart Putnam converse, as he secures a dzuz fastener on the aircraft fuselage. Mechanic Bo McKneely helps Earhart step from the wing of the airplane. She talks with husband, George P. Putnam. Paul Mantz, talks with Earhart and George Putnam while Bo McKneely refuels the Lockheed Electra. In final scenes, ground crew pushes the Lockheed Electra into a Hangar at the Naval Air Station.
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