A television public service announcement from Senator William Proxmire about the benefits of daily walk. Senator William Proxmire walks in a garden and speaks about the benefits of a daily morning walk. He calls for people to walk a mile on the 'Health Day' on July 1.
Military casualties of World War II receive medical aid for post traumatic stress disorder-like symptoms (PTSD) in Brentwood, New York. Military veteran psychiatric patients recovering at Mason General Hospital. African American patient operating a record player turntable or phonograph to play music. Patients playing table tennis in a gymnasium. A career trainer instructs a group of patients about alternate professions that could be chosen. Relatives of patients see them on the visitors' day.
The Aleutian Islands Campaign of World War II. An airfield is constructed in ten days on a drained lagoon in Adak Island, Aleutian Islands, Alaska. A bulldozer clears the land to construct the airfield. Laymen put concrete slabs on a runway. An aircraft lands. A rainbow in the background. An aircraft takes off from the airfield. A group of soldiers on the airfield. An aircraft lands. A medical van moves from the airfield. Casualties are removed from an airplane downed by enemy aircraft. Outdoor memorial services are held for the victims.
U.S. President-elect John F. Kennedy with his daughter Caroline in Washington DC, United States. Kennedy and his daughter Caroline arrive at church on her 3rd birthday. Kennedy and Caroline enter Holy Trinity Catholic Church (Chapel of St. Ignatius and Holy Trinity Offices, 3513 N St NW, Washington, DC 20007, United States) in Georgetown, Washington DC. Caroline walks out of the church followed by Senator Kennedy, who holds her rag doll for her. Later the President-elect arrives at Georgetown University Hospital (3800 Reservoir Rd NW, Washington, DC 20007, United States) to see his wife and infant son John F. Kennedy, Jr., who had been born two days earlier.
A film titled 'While The City Sleeps' about the importance of trucking industry for the way of life of a large city like New York City. Automobile traffic on roads at night and neon lights lit up in Times Square, New York City. Neon lights scenes continue, superimposed with other images: People in various clubs and restaurants. People dance. A man plays a trumpet. Hands of a couple overlapped, holding hands. Superimposed images end. View of a bell hop who blows a whistle. A couple enters a taxi cab to go home. A waiter removes a table cloth and a salt shaker from a table. Bell hop takes off his uniform after the day's work. A musician puts a trumpet in a case. Lights are turned off at night. A security guard walks in front of quiet buildings. Trucking activities are shown continuing during the night. Sign for the Port Authority of New York Holland Tunnel entrance. Cars and trucks entering the Holland tunnel. Delivery of fruit, milk, gasoline, newspapers, coal, bread and many other things. Night view of traffic crossing the Queensboro Bridge also called the 59th Street Bridge. Building material is delivered. An Esso gasoline truck delivers fuel to a petrol or service station. Close up view of moving tires on a truck. Stacks of newspapers slide down a chute to a waiting truck. A Canal Coal Company truck delivers coal to a building. The coal trip bed is shown tipping and elevating to dump the coal. Bakery employees load bread into trucks of the Cushman's bakery. A truck dumps sand. Another truck picks up a plant from a nursery. A car carrier truck is shown carrying four new automobiles on a two level flatbed system. View of skyscrapers of Manhattan in early morning after dawn. A hand reaching for an alarm clock to shut it off in the morning. Two feet seen turning off of a bed and into a pair of waiting slippers. Man gets out of his bed.
German and Romanian forces of the 17th Army, evacuate Kuban Bridgehead, at Taman, in Caucuses, and cross the Kerch Strait to Crimea, in World War Two. German and Romanian Officers study a map. S-mines aka 'Bouncing Betty' and Teller Mines are laid and barbed wire strung to impede the Russians. A convoy of trucks carries supplies. Some of local population evacuate along with the military. People carry their belongings in horse pulled carts. Many depart on railroad trains. Romanian troops set off charges that destroy sections of railroad behind them as they depart. Supplies are carried to ships at Port Kavkaz on the Russian shore of the Kerch Strait. Men roll drums in a dock area. Supplies are also transferred on the German-built aerial tramway, capable of transporting 1 thousand tons a day across the Kerch Strait.
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