Film begins showing an armed member of Soviet home guard standing in a wheat field during World War 2.. Nearby a tractor is pulling a harvesting combine machine across part of the wheat field. The harvester is being operated by a woman. A man stands by her side. Closeup of that man and then of him and the woman operating the harvester. Many children are seen bent over gleaning remains in the wake of the harvester. They bring their findings to a boy who empties them into a large sack. Another girl empties a bucket of gleanings into the boy's sack. View of two men standing on platform of the harvester, where they are filling sacks with harvested wheat and depositing them on the ground as the harvester moves along. Closeup of the man and woman atop the harvester. Closeup of the reaper blades cutting the wheat. Camera pans to edge of the wheat field, where civilians are busy building defenses. Camera moves closer and shows the worker in deep ravine to serve as a tank barrier. This group are mostly men. The next scene shows women and girls shoveling earth. Scene shifts to men cutting a new tank trap. Others are burying wood obstacles into the ground. A woman is seen preparing food in a large kettle over a fire. She uses a large ladle to sample the food. Women and girls are working on the defense works in the background.Change of scene shows men placing large logs into the edge of a deep multi-level tank trap. Men and women shovel earth to the top of a log fortification.
A television program 'Longines Chronoscope'. News correspondents Larry Leseur and Bill Costello talk with Senator Mike Mansfield, from Montana. Senator Mansfield talks in regard to Foreign Policy in the Pacific and Formosa (Taiwan).
A television program 'Longines Chronoscope'. News correspondents Larry LeSueur and Bill Costello talk with Senator Mike Mansfield, from Montana. Senator Mansfield talks in regard to Formosa (Taiwan) and Chinese Communists. He states that if the Communist Chinese launch attack on islands off the mainland then there will be war. Allied forces talk in South East Asia. He also says that the United States has given recognition to Red China by asking UN to help obtain ceasefire in Taiwan.
A television program 'Longines Chronoscope'. News correspondents Larry LeSueur and Bill Costello talk with Senator Mike Mansfield, from Montana. Senator Mansfield talks in regard to South Vietnam and the need to protect it against Communism.
Boats pass ships in the James River harbor. Shoreline as seen from the boat. Ships in the harbor, including SS America (being reconverted at Newport News from wartime service as USS West Point). Bridge over the river.
View of the Forbidden Palace in Beijing (formerly known as Peking or Peiping), China. Modern buildings stand alongside historical structures in China. A modern Chinese building in Shanghai, China. Pedestrians walking in the Bund district of Shanghai. Streets of Shanghai at night. Neon signs light the streets. Chinese primary school and university students engage in various extracurricular activities. children come out of school building and doing organized game at the playground. Older children perform Calisthenics. Schoolchildren and teachers dancing outdoors. Chinese boys engage in rough play. Students, mostly girls, and tutors leave building at the University. Men walk into hills with spades to plant new trees.
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