Parisians on bicycles in Paris, France. Two girls ride bicycles on Paris street. Group of Parisians on bicycles. Parisians ride bicycles on busy streets. Woman travels on bicycle. U.S. soldier at the back. Two women on a bicycle. Woman travels on a bicycle with a dog at the back. Man rides a bicycle carrying a musical instrument. Mass of bicyclists wait for the vehicles to move and then pass. Man on a bicycle with girl seated behind him. Two men on a bike. Mass of bicyclists coming down a street. Policemen in the foreground. Bicyclists and U.S. soldier on velo taxi. Bicyclists on a street. Crowd in front of a building. Sign in back: 'Monde Libre'. Mass of parked bicycles. Parking space for bicycles.
Activities of Parisians in Paris, France. Close up view of two French girls in the city talking. They share cigarettes and smoke as they talk.
Activities of Parisians in Paris, France. French men and women get into a U.S. Army vehicle. French men waving from military trucks. People in a horse drawn carriage. French people crowd together in moving wagons. People ride on a horse drawn vehicle. People ride on wagon.
Boxer George Carpentier meets U.S. soldiers in Paris, France. Us soldiers stand beside a jeep. George Carpentier greets and talks to U.S. soldiers. He smiles.
The Soviet ship Vyacheslav Molotov is seen, docked at the French port of Le Havre. A crane raises cargo onto the ship. Ukrainian and Belorussian passengers stand on the pier, ready to board the ship that will take them to their former hometowns. One woman walks up the gangplank with a flag and a carryall displaying the image of Joseph stalin. On the pier, French Army officers process the embarking passengers, as a Soviet Army officer stands nearby. Closeup of documents being stamped. (Narrator states that these refugees fled their homes for France, 20 years earlier, when they were under the domination of Poland.) The Soviet officer encouraging passengers up the gangplank. View from high on the ship, of passengers clustered around the processing station. Camera pans up to the ship's funnel, where Soviet hammer and sicle is displayed. View from behind people waving on the dock, of the passengers lining the railing of the ship, waving goodbye as the ship slowly begins to move forward and then is seen underway. Scene fades to reopen showing the ship in waters of the Black Sea approaching the port of Odessa, Ukraine. Buildings seen upon cliffs overlooking the port. Several views of the passengers assembled on deck looking toward shore. Closeups of passengers and their flags. A Ukrainian woman gives a speech about her joy at homecoming. Other passengers applaud. A man holds up a homemade sign reading (in Russian) "LONG LIVE SOVIET-HOMELAND I-EE-GOVERNMENT." Passengers disembarking down the gangplank, carrying flags and riding in open small trucks away from the ship.
The B-29 "Dave's Dream" returns to airfield in Marshall Islands, after dropping atomic bomb on Bikini Atoll, in Test Able of Operation Crossroads, on July 1st, 1946, during U.S. nuclear testing. The B-29 lands and taxis to a parking place on the ramp. The area around the aircraft is cordoned off and the crew is confined therein as they deplane. Navy photographers take photos. An interviewer talks to crew members. The crew walks away from the aircraft along a cordoned pathway between numerous military personnel on hand to greet them on this historic occasion. The aircraft, number 44-27354, was actually participating in its second atomic mission. It also served as a photographic platform for the mission to Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, when it was named "Big Stink.". Pilot for the Bikini mission was Major Woodrow Swancutt of Wisconsin Rapids, WI. The aircraft was renamed "Dave's Dream" in honor of Captain David Semple, a bombardier killed during the crash of another B-29 on March 7, 1946, near Albuquerque, New Mexico. (World War II period).
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