Former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill returns to England from Morocco. An aircraft named 'Silver city' lands and taxis at an airfield. Winston Churchill and his wife get off the aircraft. People gathered around him. He talks to people after his return from Morocco. He gets in a car and leaves. Churchill gets off the car and poses.
Allied invasion of Sicily, Italy during World War II. Smoke rises from the coast of Sicily just before the invasion by American troops. Explosions occur on a beach as aircraft drop 500 and 1000 pound bombs. U.S. support boats with beach barrage rockets head towards the coast of Sicily. Troops aboard the support boats as they head for the coast. Mountains in the background.
Hollywood stars (members of the newly formed, Committee for the First Amendment) visit Washington D.C. to express their objections to the actions of the House Unamerican Activities Committee (HUAC). Opening scene shows movie stars Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall on a sidewalk at Indendence Avenue in Washington, DC, Southeast of the Capitol building which is seen behind them. A police car is parked at the curb and an officer is standing in the street. Next, they are seen posing with Hollywood personalities, including Danny Kaye and June Havoc, among others. Views of the group from different angles, and from behind a group of photographers taking pictures. Then they begin to walk towards the location of the HUAC hearings, with Bogart and Bacall in the lead. They proceed up the steps of the building. Scene shifts to the hearing room inside, where Screen writer, John Howard Lawson, is being sworn in. He begins to testify. During his testimony, the Chairman, Representative John Parnell Thomas, of New Jersey, finds it neccessary to gavel for order and appears to berate the witness. Lawson leaves the witness chair and departs. Another view of the hearing room.
Atomic Energy plant in the United States. Exteriors of the plant buildings. Trees on a hill in the foreground. Barbed wire fencing enclosing area.
Atomic Energy plant in the United States. Technicians work in laboratory. A machine in operation. Technicians work on machine. A technician pushes a trolley. The technicians places a metal bar into container and then a lid to close container. Technician works with a bar. Meter shows readings. A technician talks on telephone. Technician opens a cupboard. He takes out samples in a flask. Two technicians work on machines and test the samples. A technician compacts metal bars in a compacting machine. He places the small metal bars in a cylindrical pipe like container.
A winter storm in the United States. In Washington DC: snow covered roads. Cars covered with snow. A public transport bus covered with snow. Snow on trees. Exteriors of the snow covered U.S. Capitol. In New York: wind blows snow. A bulldozer removes snow from roads. Cars covered with snow. Men remove snow from cars. A car is driven.
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