Mile Run at Compton, California. Audience watching the competition. Six runners stand on start line, including Jim Beatty, Dyrol Burleson, Jim Grelle, Cary Weisiger, and Bob Seaman. Starting gun is fired. Morgan Growth sets the pace. The runners take off running. New Zealand's Peter Snell wins the race. People clap for him. Snell stands and poses on tracks. Pole vaulter and world record holder Brian Sternberg breaks his old record in pole vaulting.
Queen Wilhelmina leaves for the inauguration of the assembly's new session in The Hague, Netherlands. Queen arrives at the gold encrusted coach with Prince Consort Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Princess Juliana. Soldiers stand aligned with rifles. Guard salutes as Queen mounts the coach. Coach drawn by eight horses leave.
Operation Head Start in United States. Children sit at library in Head Start Pre-school. They read books. Some of the children are white and some are African American in the integrated school class. Volunteer teaches new words to children. She uses toys and charts to do so. She asks other words(synonyms) from children. A boy sits on chair and tells the story of the three little bears, children laugh.
Zenbei Horikiri, the new Ambassador of Japan to the Kingdom of Italy, presents his credentials to King Victor Emmanuel III in Rome, Italy during World War II. Hokiri stands with an Italian officer during the ceremony at the Quirinal Palace. To his right, behind him, similarly dressed, is Shun'ichi Kase,secretary to Japanese Foreign Minister Yōsuke Matsuoka. (Shun'ichi later served as chargé d’affaires in Italy commencing in 1943.) Japanese and Italian officers are part of the two-nation entourage that emerges from the palace following the event. They proceed down the steps of the Quirinal Palace (Palazzo del Quirinale, Piazza del Quirinale, 00187 Roma RM, Italy) and across the Piazza del Quirinale, where camera shows a glimpse of one of the statues at the Obelisk and Fountain of Castor and Pollux (containing sculptures of Castor and Pollux as horse tamers). Next, a motorcade of the officials' cars drives out of the palace complex, past two guard posts.
Shows exterior of the Old-New Synagogue (Červená, 110 01 Josefov, Czechia) in Josefov, and the Jewish Town hall on the corner of Maiselova and Cervena Ulicein in Prague, Czechoslovakia, just before World War 2. The Hebrew clock that moves counterclockwise, and another clock nearby on another spire with Roman numerals. Various statues including the Statue of Golem in the city. The Statue of Rabbi Low in the city. The Old Town of Prague, with the Church of Our Lady before Týn in the background. A few pedestrians walking near these buildings on the streets of Prague.
Entrenched British infantry moving forward to new positions on devastated battlefield in France, during World War One. A British artillery crew fires an 8 inch howitzer.
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