Trade fair in Osaka, Japan. Woman seated on table. Little Japanese girl plays with a doll sitting in a high chair. The girl pretends to feed the baby. Cans of Gerber Baby food sit on the tray. The little girl picks them up and holds them. Large numbers of well-dressed Japanese people enter the trade fair. A large building in background holds sign reading " Industry Hall." Crowds enter a pavilion with large sign reading "USA" in front. A fountain and flowers decorate the pavilion. Visitors view themselves in closed circuit television, as they enter the pavilion.
Trade fair in Osaka, Japan. 'Exhibit information office' in the American (USA) pavilion. A Japanese woman seated at reception desk in the information office. Two Japanese men visit the office. The receptionist displays magazines and journals to the men. She comes out with cold drinks (Coca Cola) and serves them to visitors.
American pavilion at Trade fair in Osaka, Japan. Large crowd of Japanese visitors entering the USA pavilion. They proceed up a ramp leading past pool and fountains and landscaping at inside entrance of the pavilion. Many Japanese visitors crowd around around a stall where American women exhibit U.S. prepared food products and demonstrate their use and preparation. A Japanese woman interpreter translates for the benefit of the Japanese visitors. American food items and fresh baked products are displayed.
Animated map of fishing grounds around Japan that provide one fourth of the world's catch. Movement of the seasonal catch is tracked as it moves Northward during the year. Men and women engaged in commercial fishing, gathering in nets teeming with fish. Fishing boats plying waters of an inland sea. Fishing boats moored along the shores. Larger seagoing fishing boats leaving to operate along the coast of Honshu. Fishermen letting out nets from these boats and using cable winches to retrieve them. Views of refrigerated Japanese fishing ships that also freeze their catches, operatiing in the Siberian maritime provinces and in Alaskan and Arctic waters. Fishing boats, operating before World War 2, are seen pulling crabs aboard. View inside a floating cannery ship where salmon and crabmeat are being canned for export to places like the U.S.A. Closeup of a can displaying "ICEBOUNDBRAND" and text reading: " World Renowned Floating Cannery Pack Fresh from the Deep Sea Waters of Northern Japan. Net contents 13ounces. SELECTED CRABMEAT." Japanese wading in a river, and using trained cormorants, to catch fish. View of fisherman taking fish from his cormorant and placing them into a large jug. view of edible seaweed being harvested and laid out in the sun, in racks. Animated illustration of Japanese man and items included in his dinner of rice, soybean, fish, sea slugs, sea urchins, octopus, lily bulbs, bamboo shoots, bean curd and pickled fruits and vegetables, accompanied by a little saki (rice wine).
"The Roaring 20s" or "the Jazz Age" with most scenes being from Berlin Germany (but this is not obvious in some of the shots, which could be in the USA or elsewhere). Couples dance the "Charleston" at night club in Berlin, Germany. Views of jazz bands playing. African American man dancing with Thompson's Band. Newspapers chronicle the political events of the era, including Hitler's struggle for political power.
1st Anniversary of Japan Bombing celebrated at Tinian Island, Marianas Island. Commanding General Henry Harley 'Hap' Arnold, Army Air Force and 20th Bomber Command disembark from USA C-54 Aircraft. Officers of the 5th bombardment wing greet him. Arnold and staff board a jeep. (World War II period).
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