Animated map shows changes in borders and nations surrounding Poland up until 1937. A map with strategic importance city of Danzig in Poland. Map shows Czechoslovakia, Russia, Hungary, Ottoman Empire, and Germany.
Emperor Karl I (Charles I) of Austria-Hungary reviews Austrian or Austro-Hungarian troops during World War 1. Emperor Karl is in military uniform and converses with a contingent of Austrian Officers and soldiers in a field in Austria. A woman in apron and head scarf (probably a nurse) stands near the group of Austrian officers. One officer takes a photograph as the emperor converses with the group. Mountain in background.
Trolley Cars, trucks, cars, horse-drawn wagons, and pedestrians on cobblestone street in Brooklyn, New York. People coming out of the Gem movie theater. Snow on ground. Theater marquee lights lit up reading "The Gem Theatre". A horse standing at the curb. Interior of the theater shows pianist in front playing music to accompany silent films. Newsreel of Russian Czar Nicholas II and family including his wife and children on the screen. Czar Nicholas II inspecting troops and seated with officers. Audience watches. Shot zooms in so footage is full screen and theatre patrons no longer visible. Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria-Hungary and Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany on royal stag hunt. Shooting from stand with telescope equipped rifle. Line of hunted and killed stags on the ground following the hunt.
Indoor Track Athletics in New York. The 31 mile race begins. Spectators cheer the athletes. Hungary's athlete Istvan Rozsavolgyi gets ahead of Ron Delany. Delany closes the gap and moves ahead of Rozsavolgyi. Delany wins the race..
Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz in Poland after its liberation by Soviet troops towards the end of World War II. Bunk beds at Auschwitz show camp prisoners. Electrified wire fences at the camp. 'Arbeit Macht Frei' sign at Auschwitz. A sign reads '6000 volt raum vorsicht lebensgefahr'. Women prisoners inside barracks. Pictures of various prisoners, from Poland, Czechoslovakia,and Hungary and Jews, Romanians,and others.
Statue of Liberty. Picnic for union workers. Sign reads, "Amalgamated Shirts and Pajama Workers of America, Local 343 Picnic" College graduation ceremony. Americans voting. Signs read, "Polling Place. Stalls open 6 A.M. - Close P.M." and "No Loitering or Electioneering Between This Point and The Poll." A woman enters a curtained voting stall to vote. Aerial view of early U.S. interstate highway exchange. Suburban neighborhood development in California, with elevated view of houses in suburbs. A pastor performs a wedding ceremony in a church. An American family picnics on bank of a stream. Students at a U.S. college campus. Parishioners coming out of a church. U.S. Congress in session. U.S. Capitol building exterior with tree branches. In contrast: Military parade in Communist East Germany, with tanks. A sign reads: "Peace, Prosperity, good fortune" (in German). Civil unrest in various countries, possibly Hungarian Uprising or Hungarian revolution in Hungary in 1956: People during a riot or demonstration and a city bus is seen crashing through trees and into a building on a busy downtown city street; Street riots; protest gatherings. Contrasting scenes: Peaceful U.S. metropolitan street scene; Farmer plowing field with tractor; Cowboys herding steers; driver in tanker truck with "Cyclone Rocket" logo on the door, welders at a shipyard.