U.S. President John F Kennedy during a recording at the White House for national television. View of cameramen and multiple film cameras setup to record the President. Brief view of exterior of White House and semi-circle driveway. Inside, two different men stand at the podium for sound or lighting checks before the President speaks. Next, the film take begins and the President addresses viewers. (The next clip in this series includes audio; this clip has no audio). The subject of the speech is the President's recent trip to Europe.
White House photographers taking light meter readings in advance of JFK address. President John F Kennedy comes to podium and awaits signal from techinicians, to proceed. After getting the start signal, President Kennedy commences to report to the Nation about his tour of Europe.
'Faces of America' depicting life in the United States. View of grasslands or plains and a tractor pulling equipment near bales of hay. Scene changes to a building under construction just outside an urban area, with city skyline in background. Workers high atop steel girders. Fisherman at a dock raises his catch of oysters or clams in nets up a rope to the dock. Man golfing tees off. Two girls sitting in grass beside a building and enjoying a soda pop from a bottle. A man painting a building. Woman talking on a pay phone along a city street. A smiling African American man in a suit. A cowboy wearing hat and sunglasses. Rapid montage of people of various races including white, African American, Latino, various ethnic backgrounds, and ages, including children and adults and elderly people in the United States. Elderly, thin man farmer in overalls smokes a cigarette. Blond haired girl blowing up a pink balloon. Business man talking on telephone in office. Boy on Native American Indian reservation. Man ponders paperwork in his lap, as a woman plays with an infant in background on a ground-level bed in an apartment. Men and women walking and talking together among trees and on city streets. Angry people shouting and waving hands. Concerned and sad people being consoled as a person on a stretcher is loaded into emergency ambulance. Man consoles a sad elderly woman. Woman laying across park bench.
People pass time in America by reading books, weaving pullovers, watching television. Woman seated at the base of a statue in an American city. 1960's cars and a buses in background. A man seated in a library reading at a table with book shelves behind. Men in a park playing board games; one smoking a cigar. Group of people lined up on a city street; pan of camera in close view across faces of American people of varying backgrounds, races, ages, and nationalities. A couple sitting in their living room on rocking chairs watching television. The man smokes a pipe while the woman knits. An African American family on the porch of a house near a road side in the rural south.
Scenes of monument, park and heritage sites in America. A family at a campsite cooking food on portable stoves atop picnic table. Woman and young girl looking at carved faces of presidents on Mount Rushmore, Statue of Liberty and an African American woman taking a picture on the island. Woman with handheld movie camera filming at an overlook of the Grand Canyon. Old man paints a picturesque view beside a seaside town with small boats nearby. Men fishing from rocks on shore with Golden Gate Bridge in background, in San Francisco.
African American man fishing in a small pond from a simple wooden dug out canoe. A boy on shore of a large lake as three women pass by on water skis pulled by a high speed motor boat. Group of young men surfing along a beach. A family in a wooden motor boat enjoying a ride and a person parasailing. Divers diving from diving boards at a swimming pool.
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