Film opens showing logo of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. Glimpse of several U.S. warships, ostensibly disarmed after World War II, berthed together. View on deck of one, from under triple guns. Aircraft being destroyed in explosions after the war. A troop transport ship returning American servicemen back home at the end of World War 2. Views of the deck jammed with servicemen waving to loved ones who are waving back to them from a dock. Bernard Baruch giving a speech at the first session of the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission, at Hunter College, New York In presenting a proposal for International control over the spread and development of nuclear weapons and technology, He begins: "We are here to make a choice between the quick and the dead." (The proposal was rejected by the Soviet Union.) View of the United Nations building in Manhattan, New York City. Delegates at a UN session in the building. Boys and girls in a typical U.S. school class room. Younger children being weighed and measured in school. The teacher smiling and watching as happy children leave the school building at the end of school day. Another view, from across the East River, of the UN building in New York, with other Manhattan skyscrapers and buildings behind it on a sunny day. Flags of the United Nations on display outside the UN building. Views of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, DC. President Lyndon Johnson addressing a joint session of Congress on November 27, 1963. Behind him are seated President pro tempore of the U.S. Senate, Carl Hayden, and Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, John William McCormack. A submarine traveling on the surface of the water. An American B-52 Strategic bomber in flight. An American Atlas ICBM descending into a launch silo slowly. View of the missile as it goes down into silo and as silo cover slowly moves into place to cover nuclear missile. A sunset view over ocean water.
United States President John F Kennedy visits the Cologne Cathedral (Domkloster 4, 50667 Köln, Germany). Crowds cheering for President Kennedy. Some German civilian are seen waving United Sates flags. Banner and posters on President's way. Security personnel in motorcycles trail behind President Kennedy’s car. View of Bonn, the capital of West Germany. Ships on the Rhine River in Bonn. Signs read “Welcome President Kennedy” and “Deutschland grüsst Kennedy” (“Germany welcomes Kennedy” in German). Flags of West Germany and United States adorn Bonn Old Town. A portrait of Presidents Kennedy and Eisenhower hanging above German copies of President Kennedy’s books “A Nation of Immigrants” and “To Turn the Tide” (“Der Weg zum Frieden” and “Dämme gegen die Flut”) on display at a storefront in Bonn, Germany. Fruits and vegetable market in front of Bonn Rathaus or City Hall. A man selling Kennedy memorabilia in the market. A woman hangs a flag of the United States near the Bonn Rathaus. German civilians on windows waiting for Kennedy’s arrival. A band plays music in front of the Rathaus. Cameramen setting up equipment. German civilians cheer and crowd the streets as German children holding small American flags. Civilian crowds in Bonn Rathaus. He addresses Bonn citizens from the Rathaus City Hall steps. “I can assure you that as long as there are any who join with us, who wish this common effort to continue, the United States will help bear its fair share of the burden in a great half-circle, stretching from Berlin to Saigon. We will keep this free world free until the day comes, as Thomas Jefferson predicted it would, that the disease of liberty, which is catching, spreads throughout the world… Ladies and gentlemen, I am grateful for your welcome. This city of Bonn is the capital. of the free world. Because of the efforts of the Chancellor and all of the German people it will continue to be a center of the free world. I salute you.” President Kennedy said. Kennedy signs Golden Book of City of Bonn and receives a set of records containing music by Ludwig van Beethoven. A movie house with sign showing "PT 109". A German man waves the German flag on top of a rooftop. After having a busy schedule President Kennedy goes to relax at the United States Embassy in West Germany. Bonn Fire Department band plays music in front of the United States Embassy in honor of President Kennedy. A photographer uses flash camera. President Kennedy meets Ministers of States of Germany, Cabinet Ministers including Ludwig Erhard and Representatives of Churches during a dinner at Palais Schaumburg (Adenauerallee 139, 53113 Bonn, Germany). West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt shake hands with President Kennedy. Various formal and informal conferences held that evening till late night. View of the Rhine River and skyline of Bonn at sunset. Next day President Kennedy and Chancellor Adenauer meeting held at the Palais Schaumburg.
Nikita Khrushchev waves and smiles from a moving train car. Narrator relates that Khrushchev has resigned from his post as Soviet Premier. Khruschev at a meeting. Scenes from Khrushchev's career. Khruschev shakes hand with Chinese communist leader Chairman Mao Zedong and they exchange books in a signing ceremony. Khruschev shaking hands with President Nasser of Egypt. Khruschev at UN meeting in 1960 tries to purge Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld. Khruschev speaking in a loud and animated fashion and shaking his fist from the UN podium. Khrushchev and other Soviet UN members pound their fists on their desks to disrupt the UN meeting. View of a May Day parade underway in Soviet Russia's Red Square. Khruschev waves at attendees of the May Day parade at Red Square. Leonid Brezhnev and Aleksei Kosygin seated with Khrushchev at a Soviet Central Committee meeting. Brezhnev at podium clapping hands as others in the Central Committee Hall stand and clap in a standing ovation. Brezhnev addresses people. Khrushchev in a large gathering hall with many celebrants at his 70th birthday celebration. He is shown smiling and laughing. He stands during a toast. Many medals are pinned on his jacket.
Film opens showing aerial view of a United States B-29 Superfortress bomber aircraft in flight, then scenes of numerous U.S. Army Air Forces warplanes and bombing (partially obscured by on screen newsreel text). Next, crowds are seen jamming Times Square in Manhattan, New York City, celebrating victory over Japan in World War 2. (Known as V-J Day or Victory over Japan day, marking the end of World War 2, on 14 August, 1945.) A facsimile of the Statue of Liberty has been set up in the square. Moving lights on Times Building motograph news zipper or ticker announce Japanese surrender. Jubilant celebrations and smiling Americans wave American flags. Closeup of the Statue of Liberty facsimile. A woman dances the Lindy Hop with a U.S. Navy sailor, as others (including many servicemen in uniform) watch.
Organization of the United States Army. Ninety days long process of forming the basic unit of army -the Division. Animated map shows the developments during these ninety days. Various officers as Divisional Commander, Assistant Commander, Artillery Commander General Staff and Special Staff appointed. Refreshers from various schools selected fro army. Arrival of different commanders and soldiers along with time. Amphibious training to the soldiers. Infantry troops, armored troops, motorized troops, cavaliers and airborne combine to form one division. Training in deserts, mountains, snow covered battlefield. Marching troops. (World War II period).
Cotton farming in the southern states Texas, Mississippi, and Alabama in the United States. A cotton farm with matured cotton plants ready for harvest by picking. African American workers pick cotton bolls in field. A cloth bag tied with waist of farmer to store the pick into it. A day's pick emptied on a cloth. Farmer women weighing their daily pick, which averages around 100-200 pounds a day. A shed where the picked cotton is kept dry. A cotton picking farmer family sits near their cotton picks and waits for the loading wagon to arrive. Wagons bring cotton to gin operation. Wagons with cotton in Alabama pull up under cover of barn marked "W.A. Wyatt Jr and Co. Ginners Seed..." On the barn side a sign reads, "No smoking allowed. Cotton left on yard at owner's risk."
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