Nazi spies involved in Operation Pastorius are tried in the Supreme Court of the United States in Washington DC. The exteriors of the Supreme Court of the United States. The captured would-be saboteurs are taken to the Court in armored paddy wagons to be tried for espionage, attempted sabotage, and treason. View of the accused riding in the vans, and the vans entering near court building. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent digs with a shovel on sand beaches in Long Island, New York, to find explosives stored there by the spies. FBI agent shows the incendiary devices carried by the Germans who landed on the Atlantic shore from a submarine. An FBI agent shows captured uniforms, belt containing money, wooden blocks loaded with hidden detonator caps, pens and pencils that contain incendiaries to start fires. An indendiary pencil is demonstrated. Seven U.S. Army Generals, appointed by President Roosevelt to hear the case, are seen outside the court building. The Generals enter the court. Two high ranking U.S. officers appointed to defend the accused are seen as they enter the court. Prisoners enter the court, escorted by guards. Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States, John Edgar Hoover, enters the courtroom. The officers sit. Attorney General of the United States Francis Beverley Biddle present and seen during court proceedings. Prisoners sit during the trial. (World War II period).
A committee meeting during the 10th International Conference of American States (aka Pan-American Conference, or Decima Conferencia Interamicana) in Caracas, Venezuela, March, 1954. A delegate speaking from a podium. Other speakers seated behind at a long table. Views of delegates in the audience. Translators in booths behind main speakers table. Signs above translators booths indicate the channels for Spanish and English, reading, respectively: "Espanol-3," and "English-5." Attendees wear individual identification tags, and use headsets. Some remove their headsets when they are readily able to understand the speaker's language. Delegates applauding a speaker. View of some interior features of the meeting hall. A fully lit chandelier and curtained archway,behind speakers table, with banner reading 10th annual assembly, in Spanish and English. The center of the banner displays a circle enclosing image of North, Central, and South America. Elegant buildings along a beach road, with sand beach in foreground, and hills in the background. Exterior of the hotel in which the conference is being held. Broader view of committee meeting room in the hotel, with delegates seated. Stenographers writing notes at table below speakers. Scene shifts to a reception line in the hotel, at which delegates are greeted, individually, by a Venezuelan official (probably Dr. Aureliano Otanez,Venezuelan Minister for Foreign Relations). Scene shifts again to the meeting room where some delegates are seen closeup.
Children and families face winter suffering in Queens, New York, during the Great Depression. Opening slate reads: "20,000 Queens Children Face Winter Suffering, QUEENS DIVISION , Emergency Unemployment Relief Committee." First images show modest houses with clothes hanging on lines to dry. The Queensboro Bridge is in the Background. Robert Moses, New York City park Commissioner, who is a member of the Emergency Unemployment Relief Committee of New York, is seated at a desk. Closeup of him standing. View shifts to people (mostly men) completely filling a wide sidewalk, in a food line.Close up view of legs and shoes of unemployed and hungry men shuffling forward in line. Officers check men. Men collect food. A man collects food items from garbage on ground. A group of man scavenge for food in a garbage or refuse dump area. Furniture and belongings of people being hauled to street during evictions. Food bundles given to men. A man brings food bundle inside house and presents it to his eager and smiling children seated at table. Children open the package. Long lines of people enter a municipal building and sign relief or unemployment documents. A woman stands with her sad children. A girl at doorway of a house. A young boy cries. A woman with her two sad children in a house. The woman cries.
Monitor Flame Boats underway in the South China Sea. An M10-8 flame gun is fired from a Monitor Flame Boat. Flames on the water. The Monitor Flame Boats are firing flame throwers. Smoke and flame on the water. The M10-8 flame thrower on a deck. An open hatch in the foreground. Flames around the barrel of the flame thrower. A crewman stands with carbon dioxide bottle. Flames around the barrel of the flame thrower which is malfunctioning. It throws long flames out over the water.
Japanese people leave Korea. The buildings in Korea. A long bridge spanning over a river. Street cars pull away. People walk on a road in a market place. People buy from shops. Various shops in the market. Japanese people are being checked. DDT (Dichloro-Diphenyl-Trichloroethane ) sprayed on people. People wait at the port of Busan. People collect basic things required while shipment. People carrying their belongings walk in a line to board ships. A man gives tickets to Japanese people boarding the ships. Japanese people sit on the deck of a ship.
Yachts being given final cleaning and checks before the America's cup race, in Newport, Rhode island. In opening scene, the racing yacht, Intrepid, is seen up on blocks, and surrounded by scaffolding, in a boatyard. "Intrepid New York" is inscribed on her stern. Several men stand nearby. Next, the Australian entry, "Dame Pattie," is also seen out of water, as her crew hoses down and cleans her hull. Change of scene shows others of her crew washing her sails with a hose and long-handles brushes, in a pool, at Vernon Court, which is serving as their headquarters during the event.
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