Film on importance of good food and good eating habits during World War 2. Sweeping views of open farm land in the United States. Wheat harvesting by a harvester machine on a farm. Corn picked from stalks. Pigs in a pen. Cattle eat at a trough. Fish leaping on deck of a boat after being emptied from a net. Butcher weighs meat on a scale for a woman customer. Grocer puts meat, sugar, eggs, and other rationed items in a grocery bag. Scene changes to England, probably London, with smoking rubble on the ground from a blitz bombing run by German forces during World War 2. British firemen pour water on a blaze from fire hoses. A queue of British women and children citizens waits to receive food aid. Many of the British civilians look tired. A girl holds a large doll in her arms. A woman with a bandaged head holds a young girl child. Scene shows a British family at a table eating ration reduced portions of eggs, butter, and cheese. A British scientist holds a beaker and adds it to a large food preparation drum, adding vitamin enriched material to a food such as margarine, to aid with improving nutrition despite scarcity in the United Kingdom during World War 2. A box of butter is shown. Hand flips butter packet over to show label "Contains Vitamins A and D". British staples such as a wheat bread loaf and also beans, peas, and cereals are credited by the narrator as being "nerve conditioners, at a time when iron nerves are needed most." Footage of a British paratrooper in training jumping from a British aircraft. Next scene is in a steel mill as British men wearing protective glasses use shovels near a furnace. Scene of a British woman receiving cod liver oil and milk as a ration for a young child. Grocer at produce stand hangs sign saying "no tomatoes". But a victory garden sign behind shows someone pushing a shovel into the earth. People are shown working in victory gardens to grow fresh vegetables. All ages of older men and women and young children in England are shown working to tend victory gardens in plots large and small. Soldiers beneath a barrage balloon tend a garden with hoes. Scene in a community kitchen with a group of British citizens eating a meal. Next scene shows Americans in a restaurant and then in a diner ordering food at the diner counter. A woman orders and coffee is poured for her and two donuts are served. Narrator notes that the food nutrition choices made by many Americans are not good, and notes that malnutrition saps the strength of Americans. A woman secretary is seen typing and being frustrated and tired. A man welding lifts his helmet and rubs his head and face in exhaustion. A doctor and nurse examine and treat an eye of an American war worker. A U.S. Army recruitment or induction center is shown, with new recruits receiving medical examinations. Doctor uses a tongue depressor and examines a person's throat. A blood pressure machine takes a reading. An eye chart is shown. Doctor uses a stethoscope on a recruit's chest. Group of U.S. Army soldiers marching in formation. A group of new citizen recruits without uniforms marches.
Explains how the newspaper printing process works and allows the distribution of millions of copies of the Detroit News newspaper in a single day. High speed newspaper printing press running as workers look on. Tons of ink is consumed. Interiors of the Detroit News press company is shown where the whole process is being carried out using huge paper rolls that are cut, folded and counted faster. Printing presses running. Then these papers are bundled and distributed. Newspaper delivery boys boxing and cheering while they await arrival of papers. Other boys cheering the boxers. A police officer looks on and serves as referee during the boxing match. Views of the color presses running, tended by an operator. Operator checking an edition of the "funnies" comic section created using the color presses. Newspaper men playing tennis on the roof of a tall building. Newspapers with pictorials are shown. Group of ladies receiving calls to place classified advertisements at a newspaper agency. Group of civilians reading newspapers while seated on a park bench that appears to be gender segregated, with "Ladies Only" and "Men Only" signs.
View of crowd at a airport near San Jose in Costa Rica. President John Kennedy emerges from a helicopter and receives a tumultuous welcome from crowd in San Jose and is greeted by Costa Rican President Francisco Orlich. Nearly everybody in San Jose turn out to cheer President Kennedy. President making a speech. President Kennedy enters National Theatre with other dignitaries where first session of the conference with Heads of six Central American Nations is held. New measures to meet subversive aggression from Cuba are decided. President Kennedy at University of Costa Rica cheered by huge crowd and pledges new aid for economic development in both Central and South America.
The 88th Congress convenes in Washington DC. Twelve new Senators to join 88th Session inside the Capitol Building. They are sworn in by Vice-President Lyndon Johnson before taking up their new duties. Among them is Edward 'Ted' Kennedy. View inside House of Representatives. House Speaker John Mac Cormack calls the session to order.
View of U.S. Army Air Corps officers and cadets at Detroit City Hall. The air cadets being sworn in for service in the United States Army in World War 2. Hollywood stars Bud Abbott and Lou Costello along with Dick Foran on hand for the swearing in to congratulate the new airmen. The comedy due Abbott and Costello also seen escorting actress Carol Bruce at the Premier of their new comedy movie. Views of large crowd and few several police officers restraining the crowd beneath the Fox Theater marquee and entrance as it shows premier of movie "Keep 'Em Flying."
Kittikachorn of Thailand, Chairman Nguyen Van Thieu and PM Nguyen Cao Ky of Republic of Vietnam and Lydon B. Johnson at the Manila Summit Conference. “We are going to Manila. To try to find the formula for peace, to try to review our military operations, to try to exchange views with the leaders of seven countries. We do not expect any magic wonders, we do not expect any miracles. But we do think that each nation who has man committed to die, their leaders opt to get around the table and get the best thinking of the best man those nations can send” said President Johnson. Cameramen taking pictures as the leaders of seven nations walk and followed by others. Participants of summit conference seated in a private meeting in palace. Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos delivers welcome speech to SEATO members. “On behalf of my people, therefore, I extend warm and affectionate welcome to each and everyone of the heads of government and heads of state who are here. I greet President Park Chung Hee of the Republic of Korea. I greet Prime Minister Thanom Kittikachorn of Thailand. I greet Chairman Nguyen Van Thieu of the Republic of Vietnam. I greet Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky of the Republic of Vietnam. I greet Prime Minister Harold Holt of Australia. I greet Prime Minister Keith Holyoake of New Zealand. And I greet President Lyndon B. Johnson of the United States of America.” Ferdinand Marcos said. “For there is a fresh new wind that sweeps over the face of Asia; its peoples are more perceptive, its leaders are more dedicated, passionately, to the interest of their people; and Asia can no longer accept western formulas without questioning or participation. Asia hopes that it shall be given participation in the determination of its own destiny.” says Ferdinand Marcos during his introductory speech. SEATO delegates and other dignitaries walking. Man prints briefings of the conference at the International Press Center of the conference. Women distribute press briefings to foreign newsmen. 2000 international newsmen covering the conference in Manila. First ladies of the states, such as Imelda Marcos, Lady Bird Johnson, and Yuk Young-soo, touring. Filipino women embroider traditional Piña textile. Mrs. Lady Bird Johnson speaks with Filipino women embroiders. View at the conference. Large number of photographers taking pictures. Leaders signing documents. Philippine President speaking and crowd watching the broadcast on television. Views of men typing. Men on their phones. A Filipino emcee reads from a paper. President Ferdinand Marcos concludes the Manila Summit Conference. A traditional Christmas Filipino “Parol” lantern and Christmas decorations (common in the Philippines as early as September), at the Congress Building in Manila (Padre Burgos Ave, Ermita 2004 Manila National Capital Region). Brass band plays the traditional Filipino song “Bahay Kubo” in the background. Filipinos carry Parol lanterns in a parade. President Lyndon B Johnson and other SEATO dignitaries watch the festivities. A woman and a man, dressed in formal Filipino “Reyna Elena” attire, during the festivities. A Filipino man dressed as a bishop (likely Saint Nicholas of Myra). People pull a Karosa or carriage of the Virgin Mary as the Immaculate Conception, who is considered as the Marian Patroness of the Philippines.
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