Eva Braun home movie. On sight seeing cruise in Norwegian waters, Eva Braun and companions visit Cafe Nordkap in Hornviken and the the North Cape plateau in northern Norway. They and other travelers must walk across long high bridge from the waterfront.
Eva Braun's mother, Fanny, is assisted by Eva and (Gretl?), descending steps. Mrs.Braun is greeted by a German General who also greets the others.. Group sits on a grassy field and chats. A dog rolls itself in grass. Eva Bran plays with dogs. German General with dogs. Eva sits next to her mother in tight group for picture. The General smokes a long cigar. Mrs. Braun with other women. Men and women move in a mock parade. Man leading the parade balances a pole on his palm, fingers and toe.
Lava flows out from a volcano in Italy. Lava flows and cools down. Smoke rises from the volcano. Eva Braun's sister, Gretl, is seen in a long coat with a hood.
Olympic village camp in Garmisch PartenKirchen, Germany. Athletes from Italy and Japan exercise to warm up. Athletes play basketball, hockey, practice shot put, javelin throw, high jump, long jump, obstacle race for Berlin Olympics. An athlete relaxes as he reads a newspaper. Flags of Nazi Germany and other countries participate in the games.
Film opens with illustrations showing development of culture and the arts as America developed from earliest centuries. A crowded theatre scene and a lead woman opera singer on stage in a long dress during her performance, with sympony in the background. The audience applauds. Images of writers James Fenimore Cooper; Edgar Allan Poe; Ralph Waldoe Emerson; Nathaniel Hawthorne; and Mark Twain are shown. Children in a school yard, some wearing straw hats, are seen returning to the school house. Boy and girl children entering a one room school house in a rural area of America in the early 1900s. Views of early school rooms, students, and teachers.
At beginning, film shows John L. Lewis, head of the United Mine Workers, at the microphone on a podium, being applauded after pledging his union's support to the striking United Auto Workers (UAW). Slate reads: "Fisher, Flint." Scene shifts to view of a building with sign reading: "Local 581, Affiliate, UAWA. CIO." Several cars parked in front of the building suddenly start up and drive to the site of a picket line at the Fisher Body Works. They are a UAW squad of cars dispatched to prevent strike breakers from crossing the picket lines. A long line of the UAW cars, called "the flying squadron" is seen on a highway. The union strike committee is seen in a meeting. They decide to call on other union locals to join the picketing at Fisher plant No. 1. Next numerous members of other union locals are seen joining the Local 581 pickets. Among them, Leo Pritzky, of the Clothing Workers Union, is seen pledging the support of every union in the CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations) for the UAW in its fight with the General Motors Corporation. Another slate appears reading: "Cadillac, Detroit." Glimpse of the Cadillac factory and a picket line of strikers. One sign reads: "Millions in Profits for G.M. Insecurity for their workers." African Americans marching with white coworkers on the picket line. A truck driver from another union, refuses to drive past the picket line and turns his truck around. Closeups of elderly men and some women in the picket lines. Slate reads: "Ternstedt, Detroit." Women in a picket line outside the Ternstedt Company plant (subsidiary of Fisher Body Company), to support striking Tool and Die workers. A closed panel truck is seen with large loudspeakers mounted on its roof. Across its body is painted: "West Side Local 174 United Auto Workers of America, C.I.O. Union Way Means Higher Pay." Closeup of man in the truck speaking into transmitter broadcasting through the speakers on top.
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