A large crowd in a street of Guatemala. Carlos Castillo Armas and other important people standing in windows look at the crowd. Carlos Castillo Armas waves at the crowd. Armas meets with government and military officials. Carlos Castillo Armas addresses the meeting. Another person addresses and others smile. A military officer examines mortar artillery and small arms. Machine guns piled on ground are displayed. The officer demonstrates operations of a gun. Rifles and machine guns are displayed. troops surround the guns.
A large crowd in front of the Presidential Palace in Guatemala, following coup d' etat. Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas and other important people stand on balcony along with press photographers and journalists. An armed guard on the balcony. Carlos Castillo Armas addresses the crowd. Many in crowd hold banners praising Colonel Armas and denouncing communists. A flag flies on top of the building. Crowd cheers and raise hands. View of Seal on gate of the Mexican Embassy. The crowd in the square wave arms and hats.
Masked mummers in Guatemala. Masked mummers walk in a procession. A statue of a deity carried in a carriage. Cars parked in front of houses. A man pulls a cart. Roofs of the houses. A man rides a motorbike.
Landscape in Guatemala. A panorama of waterfalls. Men stand on a bridge. Aerial view of a river. Clouds over mountains.
Life and industry in Guatemala. Aerial view of mountains. Men change tire of a car. A truck on a road. Women walk with baskets on head. The women stand at a roadside with the baskets.
Surveyors move through jungles in Guatemala. They ride on horses through the jungle. A dense forest on mountains. Huts in the jungle. View of the dense forest. The surveyors stand on a cliff and observe. A stream of water. They ride past tall trees and across the stream of water. A man walks across a river. The surveyors look skywards at the tall trees. A man sitting on a branch ties a rope around a tree.