A film titled 'VIII Fighter Command First Lt. C.R.Clark 82 Sqdn.(Squadron) 78 F.G.(Fighter Group) attacking ME-110 on 24 January 1944'. Attack on Luftwaffe aircraft ME-110 during World War II in Germany.
Film opens with view of Movie marquee showing film:"Echenme al vampiro * Evangelina Elizondo* en Rapto al Sol." Latin American music is heard in background. Various business signs are seen, for Gilroy & McLoughlin Bar & Grill,cabaret; Hair straightened; Various other shop windows showing womens clothing; Bric- a -brac including large photo of President John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline; Religious items; Restaurant serving "CuchiFritos, y, Pasteles;"clothing on sale; Musicians and entertainers advertised; and numerous other similar storefront views. Views of busy sidewalk merchants selling variety of goods. What appears to be a section of the Cross Bronx Expressway, under construction above the street, in the background. Grocer operating outdoor fruit and vegetable outlet on the sidewalk. Many customers gathered around him. Pedestrians on crowded sidewalk. A little girl dressed in white (perhaps for a first communion). A man dispensing shaved ice or "sno-cone" drinks from a sidewalk cart. Furniture for sale displayed on sidewalk in front of a store. A man and woman looking it over. A couple with a small baby. Scene shifts fo a quiet street and sidewalk where a couple walks and a boy rides a bicycle. The street and sidewalk look wet. View of roof tops and back yards with clothes on lines to dry. Camera pans over roof tops. More clothes lines and families seen seated on fire escapes. A boy picking up items near a large heap of trash in a vacant lot. Children playing various games on an empty street. Two old women walking slowly on the walkway. Women with small children conversing on a building stoop. Young men gathering together and "rough housing." They are copied by small boys who fight with one another. Young man and woman with a baby stroll on the sidewalk.
People gather in front of Bruno Richard Hauptmann's house (1279 East 222nd Street, Bronx, New York) while police dig for evidence near a shed. Marked ransom money found in a can is displayed. Phone number of Dr. Condon, ransom go-between is seen written on a door frame. Sketch of ransom suspect and Hauptmann are compared. Handwriting of the kidnapper compared as a match with Bruno Richard Hauptmann own handwriting. Mrs. Anna Hauptmann seen with her son, in a crib. J. Edgar Hoover, Norman H. Schwarzkopf, and police commissioner John F. O’Ryan at press conference. Document dated September 26, 1934, bearing the names of attorneys Samuel J. Foley and Charles McLaughlin, and detailing charges against Hauptmann is displayed. Scenes of courtroom trial of Hauptmann. Charles Lindbergh leaves the court, enters a waiting car, and departs.
President John F. Kennedy visits the SAC (Strategic Air Command) headquarters in Omaha. He presents a plaque recognizing the flights made during Cuban crisis. He visits the 'Project Rover' center in Los Alamos (working on nuclear-thermal rockets). He sees the steps accomplished in developing nuclear power for rockets to outer space.
Italian Colonial infantry are seen firing their rifles and entering the town of Kurmuk, during the World War 2 Italian campaign in Sudan. Notwithstanding their firing of weapons, the troops enter a deserted town, devoid of defenders. The local bank and other small buildings are seen. Views of local huts with straw roofs and some indigenous peoples. (Note: On July 7, 1940, more than 600 Italian troops with air support attacked the post at Kurmuk. The Fung Province District Commissioner had been been instructed to withdraw, if confronted by significant Italian forces. Accordingly, Assistant Commissioner, Mervyn F. B. Bell, stationed in Kurmuk, at the time, commanded a fighting withdrawal in which Italian forces reportedly suffered nearly 20 casualties while the Sudanese lost only one. The town was deserted when Italian Colonial troops entered to occupy it.)
A film titled "R.A.F. Mastery Holds Up German Onrush." At beginning, the film shows a rugged air field filled with British Royal Air Force fighter and interceptor aircraft, during World War 2. A fuel truck is seen and Narrator states the aircraft are refueled quickly when they return from missions. Among the aircraft seen are two-place Boulton Paul Defiant interceptors, and single-place fighter aircraft. Closeup of gun camera, used in wings of Hawker Hurricane and Supermarine Spitfire aircraft, being removed from a plane while it is being serviced. Ground crewman displays the camera and then installs it into the wing of an aircraft. Next, Hurricane and Spitfire aircraft are seen taking off from the air field. Closeup aerial view of a Spitfire aircraft aloft among clouds. A flight of three German Heinkel 111 bombers (He 111) is seen in formation. The spitfire aircraft pursues them. Gun camera film appears to show the RAF fighter firing at a Heinkel bomber. But suddenly it shows gun camera from RAF fighter firing at a German Junkers 87 (Ju 87) Stuka dive bomber. Motion of the film is stopped momentarily as the German plane is struck and burning. Then it resumes and the RAF fighter pulls up and away. More gun camera images shows German bombers being struck by gun fire. Gun camera film pauses to show German aircrew bailing out of the stricken bomber. Another gun camera image shows pieces of a German bomber being blown off the plane by RAF gunfire. Next, British gun camera shows firing at a German Dornier 17 bomber (Do 17), which gets hit in the left wing and rolls over with its left wing on fire. Another German plane (possibly a Junkers 88 (Ju 88), with its landing gear extended) being shot to pieces. Scene shifts to ground where burning wreckage of destroyed German planes is seen, as RAF fighters land in the background. RAF fighter pilot climbs out of his aircraft cockpit. Next, a group of returning British pilots walks toward the camera. Their parked aircraft are in the background.