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A film sketch about U.S. President Ronald Reagan and tracing his personal history and career leading to the Presidency in the 1980 election.
Opening scene shows U.S. President Ronald Reagan holding a little girl, and then standing with officials and Secret Service agents, as he prepares to enter a car. Closeup of him smiling. Closeup of President Reagan signing his autograph for spectators in a crowd. Next, Reagan and his wife Nancy are seen on November 4, 1980 waving to supporters at the Century Plaza Hotel, celebrating his election victory as the 40th U.S. President. The President elect says a few words of thanks to them. Views of the crowd cheering. Adopted son, Michael Reagan holds his son Cameron as he and his wife, Colleen Reagan, join Ronald and Nancy Reagan on the stage, followed by daughter Patricia Reagan and son Ron Reagan. The crowd cheers the President elect and his family. At this point the film begins showing images about Ronald Regan's life, starting with baby pictures; his parents; Tampico, Illinois, where he was born; Dixon, where he is seen in a school picture and with boyhood friends. A photograph of "Dutch" Reagan President of his High School Class. Reagan in photo with other members of the Eureka College football team, in Eureka, Illinois. The seal of the college. Pictures of Reagan with college classmates and teammates. Reagan posing in bathing suit when he was swimming team coach. Young Reagan, after graduation, as a sports announcer, sitting at a microphone labeled: "WHO" in Davenport, Iowa. The broadcasting tower of that radio station. A Track and field event taking place. Reagan posing with a pipe in his mouth, at the WHO radio station in Des Moines, Iowa. A baseball game in progress before a full stadium of spectators. In 1937, a Chicago baseball team is seen boarding a ship to a Spring training camp in California. (Narrator states Reagan accompanied them.) Aerial view of buildings at the First National Studios (home of Warner Brothers) in Hollywood. Ronald and Nancy Reagan, circa 1952, being applauded at a gathering when he was President of the Screen Actors Guild. Views of Reagan in U.S. Army uniform. A U.S. Army C-47 aircraft taking off from a field under attack, with fires burning and smoke rising (possibly during Japanese December 7, 1941 attack on installations in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii). U.S. Airmen standing on a ramp next to a Douglas C-47B-1-DL transport aircraft (tail number: 43-16145). What appears to be a ViP version of a B-50 aircraft parked on a ramp with an honor guard at the stairway. Ronald Reagan, in uniform, signing up for active duty. Later, Captain Reagan, U.S. Army Air Forces, is seen with other uniformed men at a gathering in Warner Brothers studios. The entrance of Paramount Pictures studios in Hollywood. A large group of studio employees walking between buildings. Reagan speaking, as President, of the Screen Actors Guild, at an outdoor gathering. Actor Robert Young and film industry executives stand nearby. Reagan, as Chairman of the Motion Picture Industry Council, addresses a dinner gathering of that organization. He is also seen testifying before he House Committee on Un-American activities Committee (HUAC) on October 23, 1947.
Refugees from the 1956 Hungarian Revolution fly out of Munich, Germany
View of Munich-Riem Airport building (now former Munich-Riem Airport 81829 Munich, Germany 81829 ) Building sign reads “München”. Four United States Army Douglas C–118 Liftmaster airplanes on the tarmac of Munich-Riem Airport. Hungarian refugees exit buses on the tarmac, including excited girls carrying dolls. Hungarian refugees wave at United States soldiers and journalists greeting them as they climb the airstair. A boy holding two “United States Escapee Program” bags. Airstair reads “München”. Airplane engine propeller starts up. A pilot waves from cockpit of aircraft (USAF BUAER- C 118A). A United States Army Douglas C–118 Liftmaster takes off from Munich-Riem airport. Hungarian refugees inside the flight to the United States. The Douglas C–118 Liftmaster interior refitted as a passenger plane. A woman and her daughter looking out a plane window. A United States Air Force flight stewardess kisses the cheeks of a sleeping child. A man talking to his granddaughter while in flight. A male United States Air Force flight attendant serves coffee. A man eating a meal served during flight. A girl dressing her doll. A sleeping elderly woman leans on adult son. A young boy asleep.
Corn and wheat harvesters at work, and poor tenant farmers line up for government distributed food in the United States.
Over supply of produce due to mechanization causes crisis for tenant farmers during the Great Depression in the United States. In Iowa: Farmland with a farm house, haystacks, cows and pigs. American farmer brings hay stacked in a wagon. A woman pulls a horse to haul the load up through an opening into the barn. Horses work on a farm, machines on a farm. A corn field. Farmers operate a corn harvester. A wheat harvester at work in a wheat field. Poor farmers and women of farm families wait outside a building to get government distributed food, due to Great Depression and glut in wheat and corn prices due to overproduction. Men, women and children stand in line. Close up views of tired and desperate farming men and women. They fill their containers, sacks and bags with food and leave.
President Eisenhower bids farewell to Prime Minister of Canada, Louis St. Laurent, at Greenbrier Resort in West Virginia
West Virginia State troopers hold doors as President Eisenhower and the Prime Minister of Canada, Louis St. Laurent, come out of the Greenbrier Resort at White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, United States. They are joined by U.S. Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, and Bernard M. Shanley, aide to the President. They all laugh and smile as they pose for photographers. The Prime Minister waves at spectators, and shakes President Eisenhowers hand as they say farewell. A 1956 Fleetwood cadillac automobile is parked on the drive with flag of United States and ensign of Canada on its fenders. The car drives away with the Prime Minister and led by a West Virginia State police car.
Ruins of houses in Midwest and in Minnesota due to tornado and floods in the United States during the "Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak."
A tornado hits the Mid West states in the United States. Wreckage of houses in Iowa. Broken chairs and ruins in Wisconsin and Arkansas. Broken roofs and damaged houses in Illinois and Michigan. Ruins of damaged cars. A turned over car. A woman checks her ruined house hold in Indiana. A damaged piano in the house. River Mississippi flows over the danger level. The water flow touches rail tracks. Floods in a town in Minnesota. An officer puts luggage in a truck. People load ice blocks on the truck. Soil erosion on the paths due to ice. This event became known as the "Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak."
Girls join the Women's Army Corps and display newly designed uniforms in the United States.
Girls decide to serve the country by enlisting in the WAC in the United States. In Los Angeles, California girls enlist in the Women's Army Corps (WAC). Their parents greet them as they entrain for Fort Des Moines, Iowa. WAC personnel stand in a pattern to form the word "WAC". The New York skyline. WACs wearing newly designed uniforms. A WAC personnel displays a uniform. The WAC personnel salutes and smiles.
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