Phonograph music records, in long play and 45rpm form, being produced, manufactured, inspected, verified, packaged, and shipped at a RCA Corporation production facility in the United States. Engineer works to create first pressing a long play record album. Shows granular vinyl used, creation of liquid vinyl ready for molding, and pressing of vinyl to create phonograph record pressing on pressing machine. Engineer delivers the first pressing to other employees in charge of quality inspections, including visual inspections and audio playback. After approval, mass production pressing begins for the record. View of factory and processes for pressing records. Packaging process underway. Shows large punch card machines being used for managing shipment information and shipment quantities. Staff in shipping area involved in final packaging, boxing, and shipment of vinyl phonograph records. Also scenes of reel-to-reel tape duplication machines operating in mass production of tape recordings. Montage of scenes showing many vinyl records of the 1950s under the RCA label. View of Maestro Charles Munch, conductor, directing orchestra. View of a phonograph record player turntable turning, and playing a RCA vinyl record.
Viewed from roadside near railroad track, a steam locomotive is seen in distance as it slowly pulls a long train of empty short hopper ore carrier rail cars. Caboose can be seen as the end of the train passes. Another steam locomotive approaches on a parallel track pulling a long train of cars loaded with ore.
Evening - couples of the community of the community at a church hall for dinner and dancing, in evening dress. Diners seated at long tables. Band plays, couples dance. Scenes of band players including saxophones. Hands of piano player playing piano. Hands of drummer playing drums. Seemingly wealthy couples with women in long gowns and men in suits dancing. Priest in the middle of dancers. Newcomers to the community introduced to priest in lounge. Following Sunday church services, people gather in reception hall. People leave church.
A U.S. Army Air Forces (USAAF) Waco CG-4A-WO glider is seen descending and landing in a grass field. Upon touchdown, its front pops open and and an army jeep drives out. USAAF C-47 aircraft are seen next, offloading jeeps pulling small artillery pieces, and infantry who move rapidly from the parked aircraft. Jeeps traversing a high hump in a dirt road. A jeep towing an M-3 Antitank Gun 37mm, and others driving through underbrush and bouncing over rough road while towing 37mm guns and trailers. Soldiers stepping from jeeps to set up machine guns. American soldiers playing a game of horse and rider, during a break in duties. Soldiers setting up mortars. Jeeps driving through bodies of water. Two M4A1 (76)W Sherman tanks, with cast steel hulls, drive into a stream. Troops setting up several 37mm guns on a river bank. Two soldiers in a communications jeep. Army officers perusing a map laid out on the hood of a jeep. U.S. field artillerymen using periscopic binoculars on tripods, to spot and direct gunfire. Military vehicles, including jeeps, moving across desert terrain. Artillery crews firing M59 (M2 Long Tom) 155mm guns. A Douglas A-26 Invader aircraft flying overhead. Jeeps in various roles, bouncing along in the desert and laying smoke screens. Jeeps equipped with M3 anti-aircraft guns and others with stretchers for wounded affixed to their sides. U.S. Army Ford GPA "Seep" amphibious jeeps plunging into water and continuing on as boats. A jeep production and assembly line in a U.S. factory showing stages of assembly and finished jeeps driving out of the plant into yards containing hundreds of them. A convoy of jeeps driving over a bridge, and others carrying a U.S. military brass band in a parade in England. A Hollywood actress (Gloria Swanson?) being lifted into a jeep by several men. Glimpse of an unidentified actress with an American soldier, in a jeep. Hollywood stars, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy clowning in the front seat of a jeep with Desi Arnaz and two women riding in the back. Several jeeps carrying these and other Hollywood personalities during a war bond parade in Washington DC. The Capitol looming in the background as the jeeps move away from it toward the camera. Jeeps being prepared for transport to overseas destinations. Some being enclosed in wooden crates and placed on rail cars. Jeeps being hauled by cranes and placed aboard ships. Landing crafts mechanized (LCMs) transporting infantry and vehicles, including jeeps. An M4A1 Sherman tank driving out of a landing craft into surf. A jeep being driven onto beach at Adak,in the Aleutians,from a landing craft of the USS J.Franklin Bell (AP-34), in 1942. In 1943, this transport ship was reclassified as APA-16.) American troops with jeep on a South Pacific island in World War 2. A soldier on motorcycle, skids in mud on road in North Africa, and jeeps drive past him. American soldiers ride camels and some drive in a jeep near the Great pyramid and Sphinx in Egypt. Jeeps seen in China, with Generals Joseph Stilwell and Claire Chennault. One parked next to a Flying Tiger P-40 airplane. Soldiers in a jeep in Alaska, next to a tent and sign pointing to "Tokyo." Local tribesmen literally carrying a jeep, on long poles, across a river in Timor. General Douglas MacArthur, accompanied by staff officers, being driven in a jeep along a jungle road in New Guinea, past a line of local tribesmen. Wendell Wilkie, serving as Ambassador-at-large, during the war, speaks to U.S. officers in a jeep. Britain's King George VI in a jeep followed by another carrying Queen Elizabeth. President Franklin D. Roosevelt riding in a jeep to review troops. He removes his hat as they pass the American flag. Sign on a building in North Africa reads "Bizerte." General George S. Patton, standing in a jeep during a victory parade in North Africa. Soldiers at an outdoor religious service during the war with the hood of a jeep serving as a make shift altar.Various views of jeeps driving with soldiers in them.
Australian Light Horse Infantry men (with characteristics of both infantry and cavalry) at a home base in Australia, during World War 1. They move their horses, in groups of three, on a dirt track. Long Low wooden hitching rail is installed along the side of the dirt track. In the next scene, the horses are seen eating from feed bags all tied to a common rope line. The horsemen monitor them as they feed. One large horse stands alone and is petted by a horseman. Camera pans to reveal another long line of horses also feeding. Their feet are confined by rope tethers. Permanent camp buildings and some tents are seen in the background. Several of the horsemen kid around with each other. Two engage in a mock fist fight for the camera.
Two long haired hippie men sit on a bench at Trafalgar Square (Trafalgar Sq, London WC2N 5DN, United Kingdom). Many pigeons flocking in Trafalgar Square. Another man feeds pigeons. Broad view of the square and environs. The hippies talking to each other. A group of women and girls walk across the square through the flock of pigeons. The two hippie men leave their bench and walk across the square, turning toward the camera (aware they are being filmed). One combs his long hair, for the camera. Scene shifts to fountain and bronze lion statues at base of Nelson's Column. More broad views of the square.
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