Launch of Friendship 7 piloted by astronaut John Glenn in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Emblem of NASA. Message in light circling the Times Building in Manhattan, New York City, at night, reads: 'Glenn ready for orbital flight.' A title slate reads: 'Friendship 7'. View of Times Square New York City, at night. Views from various parts of the world, with voices in background, broadcasting about the event in their respective local languages. Parliament buildings in London. Wide view of the Eiffel Tower in Paris at dusk or dawn. A woman in a vegetable market. People buying and selling goods in an Arab market including some men wearing Keffiyeh. A neighborhood in China. A Japanese city at night with neon signs. A Mexican man carrying a guitar. View of various images broadcast on television (the images show the television screens) from American cities, including titles "Man into space -- Los Angeles;" "Sioux City --Mercury shoot;" "New Orleans-- standing by orbital flight." and "Please stand by man in orbit --Boston."
Wounded soldiers of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) during World War 1 pose dockside before boarding a ship returning to to New Zealand. Soldiers stand beside the ship. They wave. Two New Zealand soldiers wear gas masks and pose. A wounded soldier with a cane stands and shows a German Iron Cross medal he is wearing around his neck (captured from a German soldier).
Trial of twenty Nazi war criminals in Nuremberg, Germany. Hermann Goering and other officials sit in the trial room. Documents on table and men working. Close-up views of court reporter stenographer hands on shorthand machines typing proceedings. Press and news media work to publish the news of the trials. The switchboard batteries and special telegraph wires used for publishing the news. Man at desk as ticker tape runs through machine. Defendant Hermann Goering yawns beside Rudolf Hess while seated in court room. A large display hung on a wall which is an organization chart of the Nazi German operation from Hitler on down, depicting the members and leaders and their relationship hierarchy. Various views of the court justices, lawyers, and defendants.
Charles Lindbergh flies from New York to Paris. A map shows Lindbergh's route from New York to Paris across The Atlantic Ocean. Depicts his time of departure from New York and time of arrival in Paris.
American President Ronald Reagan is seen in the the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, from where He delivers a New Year's greeting to the people of the Soviet Union. He is seated in front of a fireplace mantle decorated with holly. A large poinsettia plant sits in front of the fireplace. The American flag is displayed to his right. The President describes the ways typical American families celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, and the New Year. He mentions the U.S.Presidential election scheduled for next year (1988). Reagan notes that he and General Secretary Gorbachev signed the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty, last month and hope to meet again, in a few months, in Moscow. He alludes to Soviet and American representatives in Geneva discussing a 50 percent reduction in strategic nuclear weapons suggests they may have a treaty ready to sign in Spring. President Reagan notes that America and the Soviet Union have the opportunity to develop a defensive shield against ballistic missiles (also called SDI or Star Wars), and that the U.S. intends to pursue the possibility that technology offers. In other matters, the President speaks of expanding contacts and communications between our two countries. He mentions Human rights and human dignity. He expresses concern about senseless conflicts in a number of regions. He closes by wishing the Soviet people a Happy New Year. (Note: President Reagan's message was recorded on December 23, 1987, in the White House and broadcast on January 1, 1988.)
Highway through blasted rock in Cullman, Alabama. Truck driven on the road. Clouds in the sky. Trees in the background. Southern Railroad cars atop a railway overpass crossing the highway. Car driven on the road. Traffic on divided highway. Street lights beside road. City in the background. Point of view shots from moving vehicle. At about the 3:35 mark, setting switches to Washington DC, with scenes of buildings and roadway along New York Avenue, and point of view from moving car on New York Avenue. Cars crossing at traffic lights. Various businesses and homes along New York Avenue.
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