News report about the visit of U.S. President Richard M Nixon to the People's Republic of China. The State Dinner by Zhou Enlai in honor of President Nixon, Pat Nixon and American delegates at the Great Hall in Beijing. News anchors Frank Reynolds and Dr. James Thomson from the news studio analyze the strategic importance of the State Dinner and Zhou Enlai's gesture. President Nixon, Pat Nixon and Zhou Enlai talk during the dinner. Waiters serve dishes to the guests. Nixon and Enlai walk with each other and talk privately. Harry Reasoner reporting from China.
A vast ship building program to be undertaken by the Maritime Commission in the United States. The newly appointed Chairman of the Maritime Commission Joseph P. Kennedy, speaks on the proposed plan to build new merchant ships. He emphasizes the necessity for a complete refurbishing of the Merchant Marine. Outmoded merchant ships built during World War I. Several ships docked at the New York harbor. People cheer and wave as the new ocean liner SS Rex sets sail. Flagship of the United States Line, the Leviathan, in dry dock. The British ocean liner Queen Mary leaves for Europe. Foreign merchant ships entering and leaving the harbor.
A U.S. Navy training film titled 'You're Navy now' about the recruitment and training of sailors in U.S. Navy during World War 2. Opening scene shows a tram at the Inter-urban trolley station near the gate of the Great Lakes Naval Training Center, during World War 2. Arriving military recruits in civilian clothes step from the train cars as U.S. Navy sailors in uniform wait to board. A Petty Officer instructs the newcomers to follow him. A Petty Officer, second class, and his friend, stand on the trolley platform and comment about the new recruits, as they walk past. The recruits follow their guide into the center and walk across the campus. A Wave (woman sailor) in uniform is seen walking on another path. One recruit remarks: "Look at the lady sailor." On their way, the recruits see a contingent of sailors marching in formation. Scene shifts to the barracks where the new recruits are settling in. Interior parts of the barracks are labeled with naval terms, such as "passage way,"instead of hall. One recruit peeks inside door marked,"Crews Head." Recruits make the best of their first night in the barracks, trying to rest, playing cards, and thinking. The next day they are lined up outside a building. Next, inside that building they are instructed to prepare labels to ship their civilian belongings home. They disrobe for physical examination and walk up a stairway to be reviewed by doctors and dentists, who check their eyes, teeth, and vital signs (blood pressure). One stands up for a chest X-ray. View inside the Training Center hospital. Recruits seen donning new white uniforms, and later going "below,"in work uniforms.
The AFN (Armed Forces Network) staff including announcers, researchers and editors work at AFN radio station. Staff member types on a typewriter. Senior newscaster briefs announcer before a news broadcast. Announcer reading news from a sheet of paper, speaks over microphone. Clock on Wall with AFN Berlin written under it. Another announcer broadcasts news in Berlin.
New fabricated houses constructed after World War II. Woman inspects the washing machine, steamer, tub and other amenities inside the house. Carpenters work in factory. Men and women work together to construct new houses. Crowd watches from across water stream in front of the new houses.
Vincent Auriol is elected as the new President in Paris, France. All political leaders arrive in Paris to join the new cabinet under Vincent Auriol, the newly elected President of the Republic. A statue of a man riding a horse in the background. The names of the Presidential candidates are in envelopes. Views of Auriol. A ceremony held when Auriol is informed of his majority. Paul Ramadier is named the Premier of the new coalition government.
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