Sponsors advertisement of Longines watches shows an announcer speaking about Longines watches. Gold medals won by Longines watches. Emblem for Longines. Watches on the revolving stand. Announcer speaks.
Newsreel 'Korea elects, Syngman Rhee wins by wide majority'. Korean citizens read the posters pasted on the walls of the streets. Huge posters of Syngman Rhee and other candidates. People stand in lines at the polling booth. People seen voting for the candidates in the first popular election held for the President. Syngman Rhee wins the election by vast majority with five million votes out of seven million votes cast. (Korean War)
Torrential rains in Korea. Korean mud becomes slippery and wet and slows up the Korean war. The battle areas are converted into a quagmire. Soldiers struggle to find footholds as they build trenches for further action. Engineers fight to keep the roads open.
A reproduction of a flying saucer is made at Army laboratory in Fort Belvoir Military Installation in Virginia. 'Engineer, Research and development Laboratories' seen written on the building. Physicist Noel Scott creates a reasonable facsimile of a flying saucer UFO.
In a dieting voluntary program an overweight sergeant and other men on low calorie dets eat celery and otehr vegetables in the Army mess at Fort McNair. A card on the table reads 'Diet Table'. The slender Army men feed on high calorie food, with plates full of food, as they sit directly across from those dieting.
Newsreel 'France shows chapeaux for Madame'. Models display various French chapeaux (hats). The models are photographed by cameramen. A model wears a hat with veil.
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