View from a height of Malecon Avenue in Havana, Cuba. Heavy surf spills over seawall. Cars drive on avenue. Views of Holy Heart of Jesus Church, the Capitoli Nacional building, the downtown shopping district, a Royal Palm bordered boulevard, and a golf course, with players on it.
Graveyard overlooking a rural village in Cuba. Cross monument. Recent grave marker dated 1934. Grave digger, an old man, is deep in a new grave he is digging. He wipes his face and smiles. (Note: film transferred backwards).
Scenes of rural Cuba. Men on horses accompany others leading laden pack animals. They move along a dirt path, past rural huts with thatch roofs. One man on horseback, smokes a cigar and carrys a goat. Two little girls watch from their back yard. A man climbs up a large tall palm tree,and slides back down rapidly, using rope as an aid. A woman poses smiling, with two baby girls in her arms. Group of children chew on sugar cane.
Children in sailor uniforms ride on carousel, ferris wheel, ponies, and other amusements during a fair in Havana, Cuba. A double amputee without lower arms demonstrates his agility. Fulgencio Batista, in the uniform of a Brigadier, assists his wife Elisa, distributing fruits,food packets, and toys to small children, at a table. Small children dressed in sailor outfits come in line to collect the gifts. Boys in sailor uniforms (Sea Scouts?) parade. Batista and his wife appear in a makeshift reviewing stand with other officials, watching the parade. Men dressed in various costumes, as cock, joker, gorilla, and other costumes, plus one on stilts, also parade. View of the gift line, again, where Batista and his wife are now joined by several military officers and two more ladies. Girls line up and clap showing their gifts.
Events leading to the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 when the United States and the Soviet Union confronted each other with nuclear destruction. A helicopter lands on the White House lawn in Washington DC. Scenes of Cuba and emergence of Castro in recent prior years. Beach views in Cuba. A military parade in an earlier time, with Cuban troops marching in front of the Monument to the Battleship Maine. Next scene shows desecration and destruction of the Battleship Maine Monument in Cuba.. A crowd of cheering Cuban people as Fidel Castro enters Havana, Cuba in 1959. Exterior view of United Nations building in New York City. Fidel Castro and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev embrace during meeting in New York in September 1960. Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union Anastas Mikoyan deplanes and is greeted by Fidel Castro in Havana. A trade agreement between Russia and Cuba signed by Fidel Castro. Russian cargo ships en route to Havana. Cuban refugees in small boats. A map depicts proximity of Cuba to the U.S. U.S. surveillance aircraft heading for Cuba. A sign reads 'HQ. 4080 S W Intelligence Division'. Men examine reconnaissance photographs of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba. The photographs show transports and tents for fueling and maintenance. A sign reads 'Strategic Missile Facility GAM 77 Combined Systems'. U.S. missiles rolled out of hangar and readied for emergency. A U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber aircraft takes off from an airfield. U.S. Navy ships in the Atlantic Ocean. A U.S. submarine underway at sea.
Goosestepping German troops parade. A group of German Panzer I Ausf. A tanks armed with twin 7.92 mm machine guns, are seen crossing a field. A squadron of German airplanes flies overhead in formation. Spectators watch as Austrian Army troops assemble and drill in Vienna, Austria Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg speaking before the Austrian Federal Diet on 24 February , 1938. He rejects Hitler's plans for Austria, saying: "…Austria will go thus far and no further." Closeups of some Austrian citizens. German troops entering Austria, during the "Anschluss" on 12 March 1938. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain at Heston Aerodrome in London, England, departing on 29 September, 1938, to meet with Adolf Hitler in Munich, Germany. His aircraft taking off. View of anti-aircraft gun set up in London, with Big Ben and Parliament building in background. Workmen with shovels breaking ground for defenses in London. A woman wearing a gas mask, carries a baby in England. Prime Minister Chamberlain speaking at Heston airport upon his return from Munich, on 16 September. 1938. Views of broken shop windows in Berlin, Germany, following the "Kristallnacht" violent anti-Jewish actions by Nazi Brown shirts on November 9 and 10, 1938. Jewish refugee men, women, and children gather around a fire and outdoor kitchen in an encampment on a field. They warm themselves by the fire. Two women pump water from a well in the field. Closeups of some of the people, including a small child. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt at a table with members of his cabinet,