Golf scenes on the course of The Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. Players including celebrities present for the reopening of the resort after its closure during World War 2. Four players stand together in front of the golf country club building then known as "The Casino." They include Railway industrialist Robert R. Young (host of the event), British filmmaker J Arthur Rank (a then business partner of Robert Young in their Eagle-Lion Films endeavor), Britain's Duke of Windsor, and former U.S. Senator Burton K Wheeler of Montana. Several scenes of the four men playing golf, including shots with the Duke of Windsor putting, with pipe in mouth, and J. Arthur Rank putting on the green.
Activity of the Chairman of the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff. View of exterior of "Quarters One" at Fort Myer, in Arlington, Virginia, the Residence of the United States Army Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, occupied then by General Omar Bradley. Two cannon pieces outside the house on a lawn. A sign on a car reads 'Department of Defense United States of America'. The car, a Cadillac limousine circa 1948, pulls up outside the Quarters One house and a chauffeur opens the door of the car. General Omar Bradley seen on porch of house. Next seen shows Cadillac car arriving at Pentagon, and General Bradley ascends stairs of Pentagon as a photographer clicks pictures. A sign above a door reads 'Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff'. General Omar Bradley enters a building to confer with USAF Chief General Hoyt S. Vandenberg and leaves it.
Congressmen, including Lyndon B. Johnson, at informal caucus of members in the United States. They interact with each other. Some members greet other members. (Clip is on same reel of film as scenes from 1948 reopening celebrations at The Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. This clip may or may not be connected to that event.)
Two men walk across a lawn in United states. A man and woman with their two dogs outside their house in the lawn. The dogs play with each other as the couple looks on. (Clip is on a reel of film preceded and followed by scenes at The Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs West Virginia, in April 1948. This footage may be related.)
Commissioner Henry O' Malley's inspection trip to Alaska. The Bristol Bay Salmon Fisheries. Numerous ships and fishing boats sail in the water. U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Haida among the boats. The Red Salmon Canning Company's new cannery in Bristol Bay. View of the cannery's dock. Cannery buildings and docks on the Bering Sea coast.
Commissioner Henry O' Malley's inspection trip to Alaska in 1929. The last of an old sailing fleet in Bristol Bay. Steamship at anchor off Johnson Hill, Bristol Bay waiting for salmon pack. Old raider Eitel Frederick is turned into a cannery ship. A cod schooner in the Bering Sea. United States Coast Guard Cutter Haida in the Bering Sea.
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