Launch of V-2 rocket at White Sands,New Mexico. Weather and wind velocity checks are made, radar devices are adjusted. In the Block house crew members begin the countdown for the rocket launch and launch it into space. They keep a check on the course of rocket through radar. Crew maps the point of impact and moves to the site. Collect the wreckage of missile to the launching station for analysis. Scene of conference held to discuss the performance of missile. 1947.
View of French Cruiser ship Georges Leygues in harbor of Casablanca, Morocco. A launch carries new Resident-General Alphonse Juin to the shore, where he is greeted by honor guard of French sailors. He greets a civilian woman and man dressed in formal attire and samples food proffered by Moroccans. General Juin then rides along a road in an open automobile, accompanied by Moroccan troops on horseback, while spectators watch and applaud from the roadside. Accompanied by French officers in white uniforms, he participates in a wreath laying at the Monument commemorating Moroccan units that served with the French during World War I. (The monument, by sculptor Landowski, erected in 1924, depicts a French Poilu and a Moroccan Spahi, both on horseback, shaking hands.) The General's car and entourage then proceed to the courtyard of the Royal Palace, where General Juin is escorted by Moroccan officials, while a Moroccan military band plays. He enters the Palace and has an audience with the Sultan of Morocco. A Short, unrelated scene at the end of the clip shows Crown Prince Amir Saud of Saudi Arabia, and two members of his royal party, stepping from a car, and entering a building during a 1947 visit to the United States.
Thousands of people parade on the streets of Pyongyang to celebrate May Day. People carry several banners,pictures and signs. Flags of South Korea and Russia can be seen in parade. Shows a band playing in parade with a picture of Stalin in middle. Children do exercises in chorus. Prime Minister Kim II Sung, Russian Officials and other dignitaries watch and applaud the parade from a high-ground. Approximately 1947-48.
Train arrives at the Pyongyang Railroad Station in North Korea. Korean men and women sports champions exit out of the train and receive a warm welcome. Champions line up on a podium with bouquets of flowers in their hands. People gather in numbers with banners and Korean flags in hand to cheer their sports heroes . A crystal trophy on table. Spectators watch football match between Korean players. Approximately 1947.
Scenes of Korean voting at a poll booth. Shows several farming activities done by Korean farmers.Some of them include plowing,spreading seeds,rice plantation,irrigation,harvesting and threshing.Grain-sacks are loaded on bullock carts.Workers lift grain-sacks and pile them up in a grain repository.Old Korean lady with a small child in her lap.Korean woman working on a sewing machine. Approximately 1947.
A ship loaded with men departs from dock. A hydroelectric power plant in North Korea. High speed current flows through the gates of the hydroelectric dam.Workers in a locomotive manufacturing company . Ingot being poured to produce metal sheets.Shows some workers working over a locomotive part. Approximately 1947.
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