NASA logo. A message scrolls from a sign saying, “Glenn ready for orbital flight”. A message scrolls through the black screen “Friendship 7”. View of Times Square across the Hotel Claridge and the iconic “Camel Man” billboard. View of London, United Kingdom across the Big Ben Tower of London. View of Paris, France. Italian vegetable market vendor peels an artichoke and talks about the American astronaut, John Glenn, and his impending take off from Cape Canaveral as the first American to orbit earth. An Arab vendor sells children’s jackets. View of Hong Kong. View of Japanese neon signs in Tokyo- a Japanese kanji character meaning “East”, and “Toshiba”. A Mexican mariachi walks in a park carrying a guitar case. Views of television sets showing news about the launch of Friendship 7- the spaceship carrying John Glenn. Close-up views of various consumer vintage black and white television sets with television screens all showing scenes about Friendship 7 preparing to launch. McDonnell engineers work in Cape Canaveral to prepare Friendship 7 for launch. Engineers jot down notes. A NASA engineer pushed some buttons. An “Astronautics” scientist observes the status of the Friendship 7.
German Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg enters a car to leave for the Reichstag to give speech declaring war, start of WWI. Honor guards assist and salute Chancellor. Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg as he heads for the Reichstag to declare war on Belgium and France. Crowds of Germans salute with their hats. Honor guards on horseback and soldiers marching with flags during a military parade in Berlin. Civilians march along soldiers in parade. People wave good-bye as mobilized German soldiers leave for World War I on the train.
U.S. Army Air Force aircraft dropping bombs over German-occupied cities in Europe during World War 2. USAAF B-24 Liberator bombers in flight. A bombardier prepares to drop bombs. Bomb bay of B-24 Liberator opens. A bombardier pushes a button to drop bombs. B-24 Liberator dropping bombs. Bombs fall into German-occupied city in Europe. Smoke forms over bomb site. Propeller of bomber engine moving. Multiple bombs are released from a bomber. Three B-24 Liberator bombers flying over thick winter clouds. Smoke forms from anti-aircraft firing. Thick clouds of smoke forms over Calais, France. A B-24 Liberator bomber flying over clouds.
Flags of countries such as the United States, United Kingdom, Denmark, France and others. General Eisenhower at conference table with officers and civilian leaders. General Eisenhower inspecting troops, possibly members of SHAPE (Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers in Europe.) Eisenhower saluting as he walks past soldiers. General Eisenhower meeting with German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. French Prime Minister Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Robert Schuman possibly at the same event. General Eisenhower speaks from his desk, "We here at SHAPE, representatives of many nations, work day by day, constantly, with these intricate and difficult problems. We require faith, self-confidence, devotion, tenacity - always tenacity." Eisenhower said.
Dramatization of the Second Continental Congress during the American Revolutionary War. The United States Declaration of Independence. The Thomas Jefferson Memorial (16 E Basin Dr SW, Washington, DC 20242, United States) in Washington DC. Bronze statue of Thomas Jefferson. The statue of United States President Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial (2 Lincoln Memorial Cir NW, Washington, DC 20002). President Woodrow Wilson meets European leaders in France after World War I. Artistic depiction of United States soldiers fighting in the Spanish-American War. Map showing the Philippines, one of the two territories acquired by the United States after the Spanish-American War. Filipino students attend a class. They listen to the teacher standing in front of them. Behind the teacher are two blackboards. Two American consultants working with a Filipino man at the Manila City Planning. A scale model of Manila. Men constructing a house in the Philippines. Filipino men carry an entire native Kubo nipa house as a form of “Bayanihan”. A parade in Manila in 1946. The United States grants independence to the Philippines on July 4, 1946. Paul V. McNutt, High Commissioner to the Philippines, reads a proclamation at the ceremony held at the Independence Grandstand in front of the Rizal Monument. Filipino women wearing traditional Filipiniana dresses attend the ceremony. The United States flag is lowered as the Philippine flag is raised.
Life after the Liberation of Paris in World War 2. Art galleries on the sidewalks. People and traffic on the road. People take a look at the paintings on display. A painter works on an easel in the old quarters of Paris. Directional signs on a road in the countryside. Ardennes: The countryside. Houses on hills.
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