A film on rescue work by the U.S. Coast Guard. A ship underway in the Atlantic Ocean. The bow of the ship. A man and a woman aboard the ship. A man at the controls of the ship. Other boats and ships underway. The woman gets injured. The man at the controls establishes a contact with a U.S. Coast Guard aircraft for help. The aircraft in flight overhead. A man gives a red flare signal to the aircraft. The aircraft in flight over the ship. A man presses a button of a rescue alarm and alerts Coast Guard crew. Coast Guard crew board a helicopter. They inspect the helicopter. The helicopter takes off and is in flight. The helicopter hovers over the ship. A line is dropped from the helicopter to the ship. A stretcher is dropped with the help of the line. A man places the injured woman on the stretcher and she is taken aboard the helicopter. The helicopter in flight. It lands. The woman is taken out from the helicopter and is placed in an ambulance. The ambulance leaves the area. The helicopter in flight overhead.
Jimmy Rushing in Germany. Swing jazz singer Jimmy Rushing performs with his band on a stage. Jimmy Rushing singing. A man at a piano. A girl smiling among the audience. Jimmy Rushing singing into a microphone. Another girl among the audience. Dicky Wells playing a trombone behind Jimmy Rushing. Buck Clayton playing a trumpet comes in front of the microphone. Other musicians playing instruments behind trumpeter Buck Clayton. Jimmy Rushing standing besidehim. A musician playing a double bass.
Dizzy Gillespie in Germany. Dizzy Gillespie, and his quintet, on a stage. Dizzy Gillespie, an American singer and a jazz trumpeter, performing with a trumpet on the stage. Musicians playing drums and double bass behind Gillespie. A man playing a saxophone beside him. Dizzy Gillespie on the stage. View of the audience. Gillespie playing the trumpet. Musicians playing piano, double bass and drums behind him. The audience applauding. Dizzy Gillespie speaking into a microphone. A man playing a flute. Views of a boy, girls and a man among the audience. Several views of the flutist and the musicians behind Gillespie playing their instruments. The audience applaud at the end of the flutist's performance. The flutist smiles at the audience and the musicians and shakes hands with the pianist. Dizzy Gillespie applauds and approaches the flutist. Note: Of music played, the ffrst tune is "Tequila". Second Tune is "Autumn Leaves" (J.Kosma)(Les Feuilles Mortes in French). Leo Wright is the flutist.
A jazz performance in Germany. Performance by the Modern Jazz Quartet. Seen are: Milt Jackson (vibraphone); John Lewis (piano); Percy Heath (Bass); and Connie Kay (drums).Views of audience, some tapping in rhythm.
Film opens showing a camel caravan silhouetted against the light of dawn. It then shows the caravan proceeding well after sunrise. Camera pans across a map ot the Western United States and begins moving across the Pacific Ocean. View from inside an airplane flying West among clouds above the ocean. Next, the camera pans over a map of China and beyond, to Afghanistan surrounded by Turkestan and Pakistan. A man opens an atlas of maps showing Pakistan in more detail, bordered on the North by the Soviet Union, on the east by Pakistan, and on the West, by Iran. Camera shows the famous Khyber Pass and northern hills of Afghanistan. It shows, briefly, the snow-covered peaks of the Hindu Kush mountain range. A camel caravan passes in front of the camera, with rugged mountains in the background. The area is arid desert, with no vegetation in sight. The ruins of an ancient city are seen, as well as the remains of mountain fortresses. Views of 6th-century monumental statues of Gautam Buddha carved into the sides of cliffs in the Bamyan valley of central Afghanistan,
A film about the life of people in Afghanistan .Film begins showing Nomads moving about in deserts of Afghanistan, some using camels and some using other heavily laden pack animals. Scene shifts to family tents set up in wide open spaces where some vestiges of greenery appear on the ground in the prairie lands of Afghanistan. View of a man standing near a tent, along with cattle and sheep. Closeup of three Nomadic men posing against blue sky background. A herd of sheep. an Afghan man and two boys plowing behind a camel. Men wielding pickaxes dig irrigation trenches in the arid river valleys. View of a castle on a hill with a snow-covered mountain in the background (that will serve as a source of water). Water seen descending in small streams from melting snow in Springtime. These are seen converging to form larger streams and rivers in the valleys below. Crude dams of cobblestones and sticks divert some water into small irrigation canals. Boys walking along the bank of a canal. A man tending to a canal. Views of trees and foliage thriving in the areas covered by water from melting snow. Flowering shrubs are seen. People walk across a graceful bridge crossing a river. A grove of evergreen trees. An elaborate flower garden. An annual festival where men carry shovels as they parade. An audience of local people watch as men exercise with weights and compete in wrestling matches.
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