Final throes of World War I and postwar situation. German submarines sinking allied ships. American workers work in war plants. U.S. Army General John Joseph Pershing visits France. American soldiers disembark from a ship in France. Germans defeat Russians on Eastern front and divert troops to the Western front. German soldiers on horse drawn wagons and others walk carrying guns as they move. Riots in Russia after it collapses in war. American soldiers fire field artillery. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson writes letters to countries at war like Germany. Papers with the 14 points to maintain peace. The soldiers of Germany and America on battle field. Dead soldiers on ground. Soldiers carry another injured soldier on a stretcher. The people protest during a rebellion in Germany. Soldiers of America cheer signing of Armistice. Cemetery. .Americans on streets in the U.S. after the war. President Woodrow Wilson goes on a tour of Europe. He sails to different places. Prime Minister David Lloyd George of the United Kingdom, Prime Minister Vittorio Emanuele Orlando of Italy, Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau of France, and President Woodrow Wilson of the United States in France during the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. Map shows the different nations formed after the war. The president returns after his visit. Henry Cabot Lodge, a U.S. senator. President visits different places to explain the peace treaty. Sketches show the President suffering a paralytic stroke and his wife takes his important decisions. Sketch depict the opponents of the peace treaty and the defeat of the league of nations. Warren Gamaliel Harding elected as the new President Harbinger of the future: views of Adolf Hitler on the rise in postwar Germany.
Engine of C-123 starts and aircraft taxiing on flight line. U-2 taxiing towards crew chief guiding it to parking place. Crew chief and another ground crewman bring a ladder to the aircraft and help pilot, Jerry McIlmoyle ,down from the cockpit. They pass a folder to a Colonel standing on the ramp. Pilot,McIlmoyle, converses with the Colonel. View from inside, as Ground crew move the U-2 into a hangar. Workers remove equipment from Q-bay of the aircraft. Guard walking past the hangar. Exterior of hangar at McCoy AFB, Florida, United States.
Film opens showing a letter addressed to Miss Betsey Smith,Lynn, Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The Date: 1779 appears superimposed over the image. A young woman in 18th Century garb is seen reading the letter, alone, by candle light, in her kitchen. The letter describes a Thanksgiving celebration by members of her family who are then seen preparing a Thanksgiving dinner. A man carves a turkey, and his wife prepares plates of food for two elderly women seated at a table. They call attention to another table where young men and women are gathered together, eating their Thanksgiving dinner. Brief view of the young woman reading the letter. The scene shifts back again to a turkey being carved, homemade pies being placed on a table and plates of food being served up at the Thanksgiving gathering. A young boy expresses distaste for a large stalk of something, like celery. Later the boy warms his hands at a fire in the hearth, where all the Thanksgiving guests gather together. The young children break open nuts and eat them. One man smokes a clay pipe. The young woman reading her letter recalls fondly her hometown church, which is then seen in several views.
A dramatized documentary, part of a film about Thanksgiving in America. Superimposed American flag and year 1954 appear briefly over members of a family seated at a table, with hands prayerfully folded, as the father says grace before their Thanksgiving dinner. The youngest member of the family, a boy, remains with hands folded and eyes closed, after the other members finish observing grace. His older brother remarks about this to him, whereupon, a conversation ensues involving all at the table, including a teenage girl and an elderly Aunt or Grandmother. The Father and mother also seem to interject comments as they dish up food and pass the plates to those seated at the table. At one point, the father speaks at some length in a warm, friendly, but authoritative manner to all assembled. Next, the family is seen in church. Suddenly, a vision of Benjamin Franklin is seen, in 18th Century garb, sitting alone in the church. He delivers some words of wisdom and then slowly rises from his pew and departs the church, at which point, the scene reverts back to the family in the church. They finish praying with the rest of the congregation, as the service ends.
Views of a poultry farm of domestic turkeys in Westley California. A man feeding the turkeys. The flock of turkeys jumps over a culvert filled with water. An old man sharpens and axe against a grinding wheel and tests its edge with his finger. This flock of turkeys will be killed for Thanksgiving in Westley, California.
1st May 1960: top officials turn out for a communist rally in Havana. Prime Minister Fidel Castro, National Bank President Ernesto Che Guevara and Cuban President Osvaldo Dorticos Torrado address the rally. They denounce the United States in their speeches. Girls with rifles. Officers, young boys and girls in the rally. People wave the Cuban flag. Soldiers on a tank. Police officers on motorcycles.
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