A man meets his family outside a farm house in the United States. The children, wife, and the man board a new Ford Model T car parked in front of the house. A dog moves past the car. One of the children is carrying a lamb. The man helps children enter the car.
President Lyndon B. Johnson addresses the United States public at a White House news conference about the Vietnam War on July 28, 1965. “We do not seek the destruction of any government, nor do we covet a foot of any territory. But we insist and we will always insist that the people of South Vietnam shall have the right of choice, the right to shape their own destiny in free elections in the South or throughout all Viet-Nam under international supervision, and they shall not have any government imposed upon them by force and terror so long as we can prevent it… We do not want an expanding struggle with consequences that no one can perceive, nor will we bluster or bully or flaunt our power, but we will not surrender and we will not retreat,” says President Johnson,
The "Buccaneer" dispatch boat of the New York Journal steaming through the water, having aboard war correspondents assigned to cover the Spanish-American war. The dispatch boat sails rapidly in the water.
The first annual automobile parade by the Automobile Club of America in Manhattan, New York City. Madison Square Garden is seen in the background. At least ten different types of cars, including electric and steam powered ones drive by. Some bicycles ride near the automobiles. Police officers walk nearby. A carriage pulled by a white horse is driven past the camera, and a horse-drawn hansom cab is seen waiting for the parade to pass.
New Town commercial area in Harlow, England, 1954, ten years after WW2. British people move about on foot and bicycle. Customers peering through shop windows, a long line stretchers from a store labeled "Rudgewick." Scene changes to view of multistory school building. Children roller skate in a nearby paved lot. Second angle of the school, with scaffolding surrounding and secondary, smaller building, designed in the same style, off to the side.
From a Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine (BEPQ) film on grasshopper plagues, made in 1951 in the United States. Men from BEPQ egg survey teams use shovels and wire baskets to dig up and sift through earth, searching for grasshopper eggs. Close up of hands working on the dirt. Grasshopper insect eggs in hand. Narrator notes that the teams have discovered unusually large egg populations. Scene changes to printing of warning papers containing information on a possible grasshopper outbreak. Close up of man from Grasshopper control on the telephone, warning about the possible outbreak. Close up of paper being printed, hands typing at a typewriter, and words on the papers. Maps containing information on the possible grasshopper infestation are created and printed. A team of men pore over maps, planning for the potential outbreak. Truck drives through green field, team of men perform a spot check to determine the status of the outbreak threat, swiping nets back and forth to catch hoppers. An outbreak is confirmed. Scenes of hoppers flying in swarms above farm crop fields. Officials review and plan for the outbreak at a table. A convoy of trucks carrying equipment drives down a roadway. Mixing stations for production of new insecticides are established. A man moves material with a wheel barrow. Belt conveyor moves materials for the fabrication of insecticides. Bran and sawdust loaded into a truck and stockpiled at an emergency station. Surveyor at work collecting grasshoppers. Chartered aircraft are loaded with pesticide and fly over fields, dusting the crop to save the harvest and prevent the spread of grasshoppers. Insect bait is prepared in a mixing machine for less infested areas. Farmers spread bait and insecticides on their crop. Close up of dying grasshopper. Swarms of grasshoppers in the sky, grasshoppers feeding on crops. Mixing and loading of insecticide into planes. Planes fly over crops, dusting them Trucks and vehicles drive across fields spreading bait and insecticide. Dead grasshoppers in piles on the ground. Close up of farmers reviewing and writing on documents. A single hopper slowly moves on the ground, another dying nearby.
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