Iron beam under construction at Carnegie Steel Company's Homestead Plant in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for the Empire State Building construction in New York City. American Bridge Company's Plant at Ambridge, Pennsylvania. A man shows parts of finished column with the help of a pointer. Animation shows the assembly of beam parts. Wing plates placed. Placement of cover plates. Side web section insertion. Other small parts assembled on beam. Finished beam carried by a crane and placed on a carrier truck. Workers observe the transfer.
Activities of Japanese people in Japan. People go in Public Health Clinic. Women sit in line at clinic. Nurse places thermometer in a woman's mouth. A lady doctor examines a boy with stethoscope. Boys receive chest X-Rays. Little children weighed in baskets by nurses. Dentist examines little girl's teeth. Teacher lectures at a Nursing class and nurses under training take notes. Nurses check patients' blood pressure. Nurse brings tray of food to woman on bed. Farms on hill side. Men and women plow farms. Water besides the farm. United States freighter at port. Fertilizer sacks are lowered down to port. Farmers spread fertilizers in a farm. They use their feet to mix fertilizer with soil. Horse drawn thrasher in the farm. Men and women sow rice plants in water filled paddies. Laborers dig new hilly land for re plantation. Farmers trained in farming school for practical work. They plow and spray chemical.
Japanese diplomats in the United States. Car and bus traffic of 1950s cars on street in Washington Dc with the United States Capitol building in the background. Elected Japanese representatives climb up stairs of the U.S. assembly. The U.S. Vice President Allen W Barkley and Secretary David Rice Atchison receives Japanese representatives and shake hands with them. They pose. Building of the United Nations (The temporary United Nations Headquarters building in Lake Success, Long Island, New York, in the Sperry Gyroscope Corp building.) Japanese representatives go in the building. Warren Austin, a U.S. delegate stands and shakes hands with the representatives. They sit in hall, wear headphones and listen to the translated discussions. Scene changes to Paris, with car traffic on street and Arc de Triomphe in background. Building of the UNESCO (United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization). Japanese representatives get in the building. Meeting in session. Representatives of Japan, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia. Japanese representative addresses and shakes hands with the UNESCO president and other members.
San Francisco Peace Treaty conference with Japan, in San Francisco, California. Beginning shows the War Memorial Opera House and Van Ness Avenue. U.S. President Harry S Truman steps to a podium, at the Opera House, to address delegates at the conference. With him on the stage are Dr. Warren Kelchner, Temporary Chairperson of the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference, Governor Earl Warren of California, and Secretary of State Dean Acheson. Next, Dean Acheson is seen seated at the center of a table with Dr. Kelchner, at his right, as Soviet representative Andrei A. Gromyko steps to the microphone and speaks. (Narrator says he raises complaint about rules of procedure.) Dean Acheson removes his translating headset in frustration. Next, a representative of Poland comes to the microphone, and calls for delays. View of delegates in the audience. New Zealand representative, Sir Carl August Berendsen, takes the stand to renounce delaying tactics. Audience members applaud. Carlos P. RĂ³mulo, of the Philippines, speaks in support of the treaty. John foster Dulles, of the United States, steps to the podium to speak for the treaty. Next, Japanese Premier, Shigeru Yoshida, referring to notes in a roll of paper, endorses the treaty. Audience applauds. Secretary of State Acheson is seen signing the treaty for the United States, followed by representatives of: Australia; Cambodia; Great Britain; Ceylon; France; Indonesia; Philippines; and Pakistan. Next, the Japanese delegation comes forward, and Prime Minster Shingera Yoshida, signs the historic document. Closeups of ordinary Japanese from all walks of life. Japanese people commuting to work.
Secretary of Defense, Melvin R Laird swears in new Assistants in Pentagon, Washington DC. Laird stands with Mr Carl S Wallace and his wife. The flag of United States in the background. Laird swears in Mr Wallace. Officers and friends applaud. Secretary stands with Mr William J Baroody Junior. Laird calls upon Baroody's children. Laird swears Baroody. Baroody addresses. Mr David Packard, Assistant Secretary of Defense, arrives and congratulates both men.
Fulbright Program in United States. A Television Journal titled 'Longines Chronoscope'. Television host introduces coeditors of the program. Board on wall reads 'Longines-Wittnauer Show'. First is Mr Larry LeSueur. Second is Chief Editorial Writer of New York Herald Tribune. They talk to Senator J William Fulbright about the Fulbright Educational Exchange Program ("Fulbright Program"). Larry LeSueur asks the Senator about the amount recommended in budget for the program. Senator answers the amount 7.5 million dollar is not enough for the program. In response to the effects of the program. Fulbright says that these programs are of great advantage to increase understanding between two countries. It is better to live in a country and know its propaganda to increase understanding about that country. Interviewer asks is it not better to use broadcasting service instead of exchange program to enhance understanding? Fulbright says broadcasting has its own resistance to propaganda. Senator tells that there are about 4000 students from both side exchanged under this program.
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