A dramatized training film created by OSS (Office of Strategic Services) for training of secret agents. Five Nazi officials in a discussion, in an office. A Nazi flag can be seen. Officials then leaves the office one after another. A Nazi personnel and a man enter the office of a Nazi officer. Officer speaks to the man,then the Nazi personnel holds his arm and takes him out of the office.
Herbert Read, an English art critic, is seen in his office in London, England. Mr. Read is reading and speaking, with a bookcase seen in the background. Herbert Read shows two of his books, 'Art and Society' and 'Education through Art'. He comments on the presence of machines in society and how they influence humanity and art. He states that the visual arts must affect a compromise with machine, and this can only be done through abstract art.
Picture of Churchill in window of blitz bomb damaged shop in London, England, during World War 2. Art dealers rescuing valuable paintings from art dealers gallery. Wrecked dairy shop carry on business. Women do shopping. People remove furniture from flats into street following bomb attack by German Luftwaffe aircraft.
Ambulances and rescue parties at work after bomb attack during World War II in London, England. View of field hospital operations for receiving wounded following German blitz aircraft bombing attacks. Nurses straighten out hospital ward and prepare bedding and bandages.
News from Middle-East. A ship arrives at a harbor in Palestine. European Jewish refugee men, women and children step out of the ship from Europe and board a bus. Security guards stand all around the place, monitoring the incoming refugees. Narrator comments that only 1500 Jewish refugees per month are being accepted in Palestine. Scene shifts to Amman the capital city of Transjordan. The streets, houses and buildings. Citizens enjoy their forthcoming independence from Britain. Palace of King Amir Abdullah of Transjordan. Dignitaries arrive for a ceremony. King Abdullah and other officials review a cavalier parade of soldiers and armed troops on camels.
World War 2 Japanese military officer reviews the allied war prisoners as they move away in jeeps. Allied prisoners of war carrying pick axe and bricks in a hand driven carts move to construction site. Prisoners place the bricks one upon another as officer surveys the construction site. Prisoners clear out weeds from the area. Officials look up at the map and discuss the plan . Construction of road starts with the signaling of the green flag. Prisoners construct a shed as officials keep an eye.
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