Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini is seen in a room of his house, Wave Hill, in the Hudson Hill section of Riverdale in the Bronx, New York City. Toscanini is handed a record by teenage boy (possibly his grandson) and Toscanini plays the record on a console phonograph player. He walks up and down in the room as he listens to the music. Narrator discusses Toscanini's rejection of fascism. and then names various other Italians living in the U.S. who similarly reject fascism: Next shot shows Italian historian Gaetano Salvemini delivering a lecture to a class at Harvard University. Italian writer Giuseppe Antonio Borgese leads a small workshop class at the University of Chicago. Italian American press publishers of newspaper Il Nuovo Mondo (Giuseppe Lupus, Aurelio Natoli, and Carlo Emanuele Prato) are seen gathered at a desk in New York City. An Italian editor, Colonel Randolfo Pacciardi, works at a newspaper establishment. An Italian priest and patriot, Don Luigi Sturzo, reads a book. Another close-up view of Arturo Toscanini.
A documentary depicts Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini in the United States. A radio broadcast room. An emergency news item comes in. News being broadcast about the removal of Benito Mussolini as the Prime Minister of Italy. Toscanini plays a piano. He works on musical notes of Forza del Destino. At NBC broadcasting station preparations being made to put the music of Forza del Destino on the air in radio broadcast. Jan Peerce and Westminster Choir at a recording studio. NBC Symphony Orchestra at NBC Studio in New York. Toscanini conducts the orchestra. Westminster Choir sings as Toscanini conducts the music. Jan Peerce sings.
A documentary depicts Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini in the United States. Jan Peerce and Westminster Choir at a recording studio during the radio broadcast of Forza del Destino. NBC Symphony Orchestra at NBC Studio in New York. Toscanini conducts the orchestra. Westminster Choir sings as Toscanini conducts the music.
U.S. aircraft bombard Japan during World War II. U.S. Army Air Forces B-29 aircraft on an airstrip in Saipan. Pilots being briefed by Brigadier General Emmett O' Donell. Officers make final checks about the mission on a map. B-29 aircraft take off for the bombing mission. Aircraft in formation flight. Bombs being dropped on Tokyo and smoke rises as bombs impact. Aircraft return to the air base after the mission. Smoke rises from the airfield as a result of Japanese attack. B-29 aircraft on fire and smoke rises. A Japanese bomber aircraft goes into a kamikaze suicide dive. Smoke rises from the airfield. Wreckage of B-29 aircraft.
Activities of British soldiers in Naples, Italy during World War II. A German airplane in flight. An anti aircraft gun shell bursts around it. A few landings craft at a beach area. Sappers (British Royal Engineers) sweep the beach for mines using metal detectors. Boogie wheels and track of a tank as it comes off a landing craft into shallow water. Point of view shot from low aerial approach toward a small village area on the beach. A group of Italian soldiers and sailors rest near a building. One soldier holds a child. An M-7 howitzer motor carriage with troops atop it comes off a Landing Craft Tank (LCT) followed by a vehicle. A Landing Ship Tank (LST) approaches the beach. British soldiers at a deck rail.
Activities of Chinese troops in China during World War II. Chinese combat troops march on a street. An officer watches through binoculars. Soldiers work with picks and shovels while constructing a road. A man places dynamite in a hole. He turns a detonator. An explosion on the road. Chinese soldiers advance. They fire rifles and Bren guns. A Chinese woman nurses and bandages the hand of a casualty on a litter. Chinese soldiers fire rifles at the Japanese from a trench.
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