American military trucks and tanks traverse New Road through village of Shaftesbury, Dorset, England. An African American soldier drives one of the trucks. An overhead crane pulls a 2-1/2 ton cargo truck,two wheeled trailer aboard a ship. Trucks and two M1 tanks drive through, turning in front of the Abbey Printing Works. Several townsfolk stand in front of V.F. Pike & Co.Ltd. shop and watch tanks driving past. U.S. soldiers ride in an open stake trucks pulling field artillery. View from vehicle moving along village street past army trucks and entering a courtyard, between stone pillars. A U.S. Military policeman directing truck traffic in center of town. View from truck driving over rails and into port where large ship is being loaded by cranes.
A film titled "The world's telephone workshop". Opening scene shows ceremony on March 10, 1916, with Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, unveiling a plaque at the invention site of the telephone in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. The plaque, at 109 Court Street, states "Here the Telephone was Born, June 2, 1875" and it notes that it was placed by The Bostonian Society and the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company. Alexander Graham Bell tips his hat to the crowd as they celebrate the unveiling. View of Western Electric Company plant in Chicago as smoke emerges from chimneys. Turbines in coal power plant. Massive group of thousands of American workers gathered together, from all walks of life, who are employed in the telephone industry.
A film titled 'Atlantic review # 2' shows NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization ) students in a radar class in Netherlands. A man marks path of an airplane on a large plotting board. Students of various countries at NATO aerodynamics school. Plane model placed in test chamber. Mock combat exercises take place as NATO servicemen operate radar and other equipment in control room. Students at Track and Beacon school in Holland as they learn about tactical air navigation. Radar blimp flies off from Lakehurst, New Jersey. Radar men work on controls to check radar screens.
A film titled ' A new voice for Mr. X' shows through an enactment how a man becomes conscious of other person's telephone voices. Mr. X meets a friend and they both visit a telephone company shop where Mr X listens to a recording of his own voice as it sounds over a phone. He thinks of making changes in his office that will improve telephone conversations.
Newsreel titled 'European inventor perfects machine for typing music' shows women typing musical notes on a new typewriter invented by a European. The typewriter, a Rundstatler- GMBH music typewriter, turns out a clear copy of typed musical notes.
Strong Gale winds cause high waves to strike sea wall in Winthrop,Massachusetts along New England coast. On the North East coast of Great Britain stormy sea drive a vessel along the rocky shore.
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