Liner USS George Washington on the Atlantic Ocean after its departure from Hoboken, New Jersey, bound for the Paris Peace Conference after World War 1. One of the ship's officers looks through binoculars. Two ships in the background (one is likely the USS Pennsylvania BB-38 which accompanied the flotilla). President Woodrow Wilson looks through binoculars. Standing behind him is Rear Admiral Cary Grayson, who was also the President's physician, Two women talk to a man on ship. John W Davis looks through binoculars, a woman stands beside him. The woman looks through binoculars. Robert Lansing, U.S. Secretary of State stands on ship wearing a hat and bowtie and looks around. French Ambassador Jean Aderian Antoine Jules Jusserand sits and talks with two women. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Camera pans across old established Cemetery at Sedan, France. New wooden crosses of fallen soldiers are seen on outer edges of the cemetery, which is otherwise filled with older monuments and stones marking graves of local people. (World War I. World War 1. WWI. WW1)
Aswan high dam project in Nile valley, Egypt. Nubian children, among more than 100,000 citizens moved for the project, play in a village. A man cuts meat, another man stands besides him. Schools, health centers and buildings of new residential areas built to support the relocated civilians. People walk. Cranes at work to move statues on Abu Simbel temples. Statues of Ramesses Two and his Queen. Workers clean carved sections. Worker works on a statue.
Demonstration of new motor boat at Milford in Connecticut, England. Thomas Alva Edison Lake demonstrates Pontoon Hydroplane invented by him. Pontoons of boat. He demonstrates 'skipper turns' at its top speed. Rear float and adjustable angles for the wing pontoons on the boat.
Activities of Japanese people in Japan. People go in Public Health Clinic. Women sit in line at clinic. Nurse places thermometer in a woman's mouth. A lady doctor examines a boy with stethoscope. Boys receive chest X-Rays. Little children weighed in baskets by nurses. Dentist examines little girl's teeth. Teacher lectures at a Nursing class and nurses under training take notes. Nurses check patients' blood pressure. Nurse brings tray of food to woman on bed. Farms on hill side. Men and women plow farms. Water besides the farm. United States freighter at port. Fertilizer sacks are lowered down to port. Farmers spread fertilizers in a farm. They use their feet to mix fertilizer with soil. Horse drawn thrasher in the farm. Men and women sow rice plants in water filled paddies. Laborers dig new hilly land for re plantation. Farmers trained in farming school for practical work. They plow and spray chemical.
San Francisco Peace Treaty conference with Japan, in San Francisco, California. Beginning shows the War Memorial Opera House and Van Ness Avenue. U.S. President Harry S Truman steps to a podium, at the Opera House, to address delegates at the conference. With him on the stage are Dr. Warren Kelchner, Temporary Chairperson of the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference, Governor Earl Warren of California, and Secretary of State Dean Acheson. Next, Dean Acheson is seen seated at the center of a table with Dr. Kelchner, at his right, as Soviet representative Andrei A. Gromyko steps to the microphone and speaks. (Narrator says he raises complaint about rules of procedure.) Dean Acheson removes his translating headset in frustration. Next, a representative of Poland comes to the microphone, and calls for delays. View of delegates in the audience. New Zealand representative, Sir Carl August Berendsen, takes the stand to renounce delaying tactics. Audience members applaud. Carlos P. RĂ³mulo, of the Philippines, speaks in support of the treaty. John foster Dulles, of the United States, steps to the podium to speak for the treaty. Next, Japanese Premier, Shigeru Yoshida, referring to notes in a roll of paper, endorses the treaty. Audience applauds. Secretary of State Acheson is seen signing the treaty for the United States, followed by representatives of: Australia; Cambodia; Great Britain; Ceylon; France; Indonesia; Philippines; and Pakistan. Next, the Japanese delegation comes forward, and Prime Minster Shingera Yoshida, signs the historic document. Closeups of ordinary Japanese from all walks of life. Japanese people commuting to work.
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