The Shenandoah Apple Festival in Winchester, Virginia. Miss Guri Lie, the daughter of United Nations Secretary General Trygve Lie, is crowned the Queen of the twenty-fourth Shenandoah Apple Festival. U.S. Secretary of Defense George C. Marshall officiates at the coronation, which opens one of the nation's most colorful yearly pageants. Children of a school stand in lines during the festival celebration. The flag of the United States. Guri Lie walks through apple orchards with the children holding the train of her gown. A parade passes through the streets. People watch the parade. Various floats and girls on the floats. Guri Lie leads the parade seated on a float. The girls siting on the floats wave at people.
President Harry S. Truman asks for a strict curb on inflation in Washington. In a speech Truman says that Communists have been hoping for collapse of American economy, hence an anti-inflation law plays a part in the fight for peace.
French troops repel the communists from Indochina during the Indochina War. Paratroopers drop in the Indochina Delta. They wade through water. The paratroopers fire guns. French troops advance under Vietminh fire. Machine-guns are fired. Dead soldiers on the ground. The place where the son of French Commander in Chief, Jean Joseph Marie Gabriel de Lattre de Tassigny was killed. Vietnamese run looking scared. The French point guns at them. French troops raise the French flag. They return to a fort in trucks.
Partially disabled amputees of World War II meet U.S. President Truman in Washington. A World War II veteran who has both his legs amputated walks in front of President Harry S. Truman with the help of prosthesis artificial limbs. Another veteran with amputated hands lights a cigarette. Both of them shake hands with Truman.
A dachshund adopts a squirrel in Hanover, Germany. A tiny squirrel named Bimbo eats nuts. She climbs up a milk bottle and tries to open its lid. A dachshund near a pair of boots. Bimbo climbs upon the dachshund. Children look at them and smile. Bimbo on the dachshund while he sleeps in hay.
The Rose Gold Trio (Rose, her husband and a partner) perform atop the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. They perform dangerous aerial stunt maneuvers during the celebrations of the two thousandth anniversary of Paris. Cameramen record the event from a height to get a closer view of the acrobats. High altitude view of the city. People watch them performing. (Note that the heel-hang is done barefooted, i.e. without any possibilities for concealed hooks or similar, which are so fashionable today.)