The third anniversary of the signing of the Lateran Treaty in Rome, Italy. Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini arrives at St. Peter's Basilica to meet Pope Pius XI (Piazza San Pietro, 00120 Città del Vaticano, Vatican City). An official party accompanied by Corazzieri (Carabinieri mounted division) escorts arrives. Mussolini gets off from a staff car. The flag of Vatican City is hoisted outside a building. Papal Swiss guards in colorful uniform accompany the officials down the Raphael Galleries to meet Pope Pius XI. Church bells ringing. Mussolini leaves after meeting the Pope as crowds cheer.
A cemetery in the Philippines during World War II. Close up view of the American flag as it flies at half mast. Coconut trees in the background. White crosses at the cemetery. A man kneels down in front of the crosses. The U.S. flag flutters in the background. A bell in the foreground.
Remains of destroyed church in the Philippines during World War II. A bell tower of the church. A native Filipino woman walks down a street. Gutted out buildings in the background. Women lean against bamboo railing. They look at a bombed building. A combat photographer operates a motion picture camera with a four hundred feet adapter on the back of it. Japanese prisoners walk past and get onto trucks. The prisoners loaded onto a truck. An old Filipino man. A Filipino man and a woman in a cart pulled by a carabao buffalo.
Students of Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio take up various courses and on the job training to learn skills. A college student girl looks after a young child and helps him to put on a Native American Indian costume during play time. A day nursery in Cleveland Ohio where children play around a table and a young boy smiles while he finger paints. Students working at the Sigma Gamma Hospital in Detroit (also called Memorial Orthopedic Hospital, and later St. John North Shores Hospital) tend and treat children suffering from paralysis from polio. A young woman assists a boy in removing his leg braces. She then carries him to an indoor swimming pool and gently sets him down in the water, where the two of them play with a toy boat. Next scene shows a boys' club in Dayton, Ohio where young boys play table tennis (ping pong) and others look on. Students of Antioch College supervise athletics near Chicago, as a group of young women college students practice hand stands and . At the college the students gain first hand experience in child study. A woman at the Bells Research Institute of Antioch College works with a boy who is disabled (possibly polio). Girls look after children and do case work for children in need.
African American children in a rural school in the United States. The school building. Boy and girl children in the school yard. Clothing of the children is shown. One boy has old shoes with many holes in them. Girls sew and make crafts like baskets. Different hair styles by African American girls. Two elderly African American women. Close up views of faces of boy and girl children. A school teacher rings a school bell while standing in the door of the school house.
Allied campaign in Italy during World War II. Allied troops and equipment advance in southern Lazio region on the way to Rome. Various street signs on the way read “Rome”. A map of Lazio region in Central Italy showing the advance of Allied troops into Rome. Nazi German soldiers withdraw in front of Porta San Giovanni (Piazza di S. Giovanni in Laterano, 00100 Roma RM, Italy), near the Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran. Deserted streets of Rome as the Nazis withdraw, an Italian priest walks nearby. Italian man gives a speech in front of crowd, cheering for the incoming Allied troops. Allied troops enter Rome and civilians celebrate their liberation. Newspaper headlines about the liberation of Rome. Pope Pius XII addresses a large gathering from a balcony in the Vatican City. People gather and pray in Saint Peter’s Square (Piazza di San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome, Lazio. 00184). People lay down flowers around dead soldiers. A soldier removes his gear and helmet as he enters a church. A church bell rings.
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