Pedestrians cross a street near the Houshang KhanShaghaghi building, Tehran's first skyscraper, in pre revolution downtown Tehran, Iran. Iranian women are both wearing Western and traditional Muslim attire on the street. The Post and Telegraph Office building on Tehran Toopkhaneh / Sepah Square (Imam Khomeini Sq.) Signs in English and Persian read “Chief of Mission” and “Deputy Chief of Mission and Chief of Staff”. Men riding donkeys in the middle of the busy road in front of the National Consultative Assembly building. Close up of lion holding sword statue atop gate to the National Consultative Assembly building. The dome and minarets of Sepahsalar Mosque, southeast of Baharestan square.
Host Frank Knight speaks in a television program Longines Chronoscope. Max W Thornburg, Petroleum Adviser, Department of State, interviewed by Henry Hazlitt and William Bradford Huie. Thornburg talks about his experience in the Middle East oil industry and credentials as Petroleum Adviser, causes of the oil nationalization crisis in Iran and British interference in Iranian politics. Further he speaks about failure of effective Anglo-Iranian oil policy, and lack of U.S. corporate initiatives in developing realistic oil agreements in the Middle East.
Iranian Premier states Iran's case in the Anglo Iranian oil crisis at the United Nations Security Council in New York. Mosaddeq at the meeting. Mosaddeq blames Great Britain for the crisis and tellS the UN not to intervene in its internal matters. Delegates with headphones listen to his address. British representative to the UN Security Council Gladwyn Jebb and Warren Robinson Austin, the representative from the U.S. also present.
Senator Daniel K. Inouye announces that the presiding officer of the Joint Committee speaks for both Senate and House Select Committees. He then swears Lt. Col. Oliver North in as a witness. Mr. Brendan Sullivan, Legal Counsel for U.S. Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North makes several requests, argues about procedures and makes objections, that are over-ruled by Chairman Inouye.
USS Valley Forge (CVS-45) tied up at pier in San Diego, California. Brow of ship. Passengers loading up to side of ship. Cars stop before brow. Shah and dignitaries exit. They climb up to the ship. Valley Forge tied up at pier. Saluting battery fire.
Opening scene shows a U.S. Information Agency (USIA) secretary provides a couple in Germany with information about American schools. Views of students in Saigon, South Vietnam, attending USIA English language classes. View of London, England, showing the Art Deco BBC Broadcasting House at Portland Place (Portland Pl, London W1A 1AA, UK) and All Souls Church, Langham Place (All Souls C of E Church, 2 All Souls' Pl, London W1B 3DA, UK). A man is seen delivering a can, containing the USIA monthly film documentary, to the BBC. View of Broadcasting House of BBC in Marylebone, England. In Iran, a Douglas DC-4 passenger plane takes off, carrying newspaper reporters and Iranian officials to look over an American technical assistance project which is seen from the air. In Tokyo, Japan, a man working in a private publishing company begins translating an American book. The book is open on his desk and contains an illustration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. A page of the book, written in Japanese, is shown being reproduced on a type of mimeograph machine.