A crowd of nearly 250,000 people gather at St. Peter's Square in Vatican City. Giovanni Cardinal Montini of Milan is elected as Pope Paul VI, following the death of Pope John XXIII. Pope Paul VI blesses the crowds while carried on the sedia gestatoria chair. Two large white ostrich fans (flabella) are carried at either side of the sedia gestatoria. A procession of priests follows the Pope. Papal Swiss Guards in full armor flank the procession. Priests carrying the Papal miters inside Saint Peter’s Basilica. From the Vatican Palace the procession moves through the Square to an altar erected on the steps of St. Peter's. Dignitaries are seated to watch the papal coronation. The ceremonies are held outdoors. Pope Paul VI celebrates a Pontifical Mass and then is crowned with the papal triple tiara made by the people of Milan. He promises to carry on the work of Pope John XXIII. Pope Paul VI imparts his first Apostolic Blessing.
Pole Vaulting at a Championship. View of Pole Vaulters running and jumping during pole vault. Crowd cheering. American athlete John Pennel makes a new record for 16 feet and 8 ¾. Photographers taking pictures. Close view of John Pennel talking after the jump.
Point of view (POV) overhead crane view of steel mill floor in the open hearth area. Workers 'slagging' and open hearth furnace by throwing shovels full of dolomite into the hearth. Worker Tommy Hughs pours huge ladle of hot iron from the blast furnace into the open hearth furnace. Foremen Billy Reilly and John Strouse confer. John's son, Ed Strouse, seen as a high school football player on the bench during a game. High school football game in Youngstown, Ohio. Audience cheers. Several views of spectators in stands cheering. Score keepers at score board. High School Band players seen with their instruments. High school Principal Glasgow talks to student Ed Strouse. Boys in vocational class view engine of a car. Lunch line at high school cafeteria. Teenage boys and girls eating lunch at high school cafeteria. Students leaving high school at end of day.
A U.S. Army soldier seated on a chair takes a nap. A cup kept in front of him on the table. Children walking on sidewalk in small town America. Downtown view of small Indiana town. View of an American family of a small town seated in dining room for a dinner meal. Children exit a one room school house. Both a well-kept high school building and a rural simple school are shown, with boys and girls in bare feet exiting the poor rural school down a wooden ramp. Men lined up for work. Children playing in slum and tenement areas in poverty stricken areas. Quick views of skyscrapers, new schools, buildings, colleges (including view of Rice University in Houston Texas) and art galleries in the United States, including the National Gallery of Art entrance. A Texan in a cowboy hat delivers a John Randolph famed "Texas Brag" saying, "If all the hogs in Texas were one big hog, he could dig the Panama Canal with three roots and a grunt.” The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Labor organizer John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America (UMW) states, "The American Federation of Labor can help if it will, it can uphold anything, but we shall carry on." An American town hall meeting in progress. (World War II period).
Young Russian Communist organizer addresses a huge gathering. American journalist and socialist activist, John Reed (John Silas "Jack" Reed), is seen seated at the man's feet on an elevated stage or platform. Men riding horses, some pulling small wagons and chariots. Russian cavalry moving in formation. Open carriages, with soldiers in them, are pulled by teams of horses in a rapid gallop along a dirt road. Individual soldiers run beside them along road's edge. Mikhail Kalinin (also known as "Kalinych"), carrying a cane, reviews troops and accepts flag from them. He bows slightly to the troops. Russian cavalry crossing a pontoon bridge, and galloping past some horses being watered. Mikhail Frunze salutes while reviewing troops. A World War I, French 75 field piece fired from railroad flatcar. Explosions in the background on an open field. Smoke and dust rise up due to explosions. Russian cavalry charging across a snow-dusted field.
A cake celebrating Universal's 50th anniversary is displayed. Thomas Edison seen in his laboratory. Drawing shows woman looking through an Edison Kinetoscope. Hands demonstrate flip card motion pictures. A model of Edison's "Black Maria" studio. Kinescope pictures displayed include 'Charlie Chaplin and the Dumb waiter' , 'Billy West in the Absent Minded Janitor', 'Ham and Bud in The Sausage Factor!', and 'Bill Hart's Best.' A man watches Kinetoscope of a Bill Hart movie with cowboys fighting in a saloon. Scenes from Carl Laemmle's 1909 film 'Hiawatha' movie set. Cameramen behind hand cranked motion picture camera. View of film set stage. Outake from 1935's 'East of Java' shows Charles Bickford mauled by a lion. Aerial view of Universal City. Will H. Hays presents Carl Laemmle with plaque honoring 30th year as film maker as Cecille B. Demille, Mary Pickford and Will Rogers look on. Other celebrities include Edward Arnold, Otto Kruger, Jesse Lasky, King Baggot, May Robson, and Binnie Barnes. Clark Gable, Jack Oakie, Jack L. Warner, Carol Lombard, and William Powell at a Hollywood premiere. 'Spartacus' opens at the Pantages theater. The movie 'Back Street' premieres. John Gavin, Anna May Wong, Miyoshi Umeki, James Shigeta, and Nancy Kwan are at the opening of 'Flower Drum Song.' Movie premieres of 'The Pajama Game' and 'Love, Come Back' featuring Rock Hudson, Doris Day, and Tony Randall. John Saxton and Janet Lake attend premier of 'Midnight Lace' Other celebrities include producer Ross Hunter with Julia Meade and Lana Turner. Sandra Dee and Bobby Darin attend premiere of 'Come September' Rock Hudson accepts German film award. Premiere of 'Anaguas a Bordo' with Tony Curtis. Cary Grant, Tony Curtis, and Janet Leigh at premiere of Spartacus. Kirk Douglas attends royal showing of Spartacus in London. Princess Margaret congratulates him as well as Universal President Milton Rackmil and VP Americo Aboaf. Milton Rackmil and Cary Grant Universal's 50th anniversary cake.
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