German citizens exchange old money for new money in Germany during Currency Reform of 1948. Pedestrian walk on a street in the rain. Crowded street cars in the background. People look at Münchner Merkur newspaper and posters in Munich announcing the currency exchange. People wait in line to get Deutschmark for old Reichmark. Various closed storefronts in a German city. The crowd assembles in a street waiting to get the new currency. Crowds in front of the main railroad station in Frankfurt. Newspapers being unloaded from printing presses of Münchner Merkur newspaper production plant after workers change type casts. Printed newspapers being stacked. People in Odeonsplatz in Munich rush after a newspaper truck to get the latest news on the money change. German people standing and seated reading the newspapers. Boxes with Deutsche Marks are stacked in banks and checked. Packages of newly printed currency on a counter. Money bags sealed and loaded into a bus. View of Marienplatz town square in Munich. Long lines of people carrying umbrellas stand in rain waiting to exchange money. The money being transferred and exchanged. People sign papers after the exchange. Old money dropped into a wooden box. People comparing the new with the old currency. A man changing prices in store windows. Merchants arranging goods for display in previously empty shop windows (due to prevalence of black market before the reform). Ober Director Dr. Puender speaks on the money reform.
A blond fashion model wearing a thick raccoon fur coat waves at a passing car on the road. Women wearing Roaring-Twenties style raccoon fur coats pose in front of a vintage car. Smiling models in raccoon coats from Hess’s, a department store owned by entrepreneur Max Hess in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Models showing off “Preppy style” clothing popular on Ivy league campuses. A woman twirls to show off her plaid swing skirt. A woman wearing a “Preppy” sweater and plaid skirt stands up. A blond model wearing a striped long-sleeved blouse and black tapered pants plays on the swing. A brunette model sits on the grass while modeling a thick geometric sweater and Bermuda pants. A girl playing golf, hitting the golf ball.
Operation Sea Orbit of the U.S. Navy's Task Force One, during its round the world two-month cruise. Nuclear powered surface ships seen underway: Aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN-65), a guided missile cruiser USS Long Beach (CGN-9), USS Bainbridge (CGN-25), a guided missile cruiser. U.S. Navy personnel on the bridge of a U.S. Navy ship. Visiting dignitaries emerge from a U.S. Navy aircraft aboard USS Enterprise (CVN-65). A dignitary inspects the Enterprise honor guard. The ship commander and other men including the dignitary sit in reviewing stand to watch the fire power demonstration. The aircraft being readied for takeoff from the deck of USS Enterprise. A signal officer gives signal. F-4 aircraft take off from carrier deck. Aircraft and crew members on the deck in the foreground. Another F-4 takes off and then a F-11 Tiger takes off. The visitors on the deck. The aircraft fly in formation. The dignitaries watching the aircraft in flight. A close up of the aircraft flying in formation. A sidewinder missile is fired and hits its target. Explosion in air. An aircraft in flight. Zuni rockets are fired at a water-based target and a big splash is seen. The Foreign dignitaries, officer and Commander of Task Force One, Rear Admiral Bernard M. Strean, seated on the deck talking to the visiting guests. Scene from R&R as the task force Navy personnel shop for different items from a shop in Pakistan. A sailor tries out a bullwhip. A snake charmer plays an instrument and does tricks with a cobra snake. The personnel look at a horse. They sit on horses and ride horses. The Nuclear Task Force One ships underway. A bow of a ship cutting through the water. People stand on a dock to welcome the Nuclear Task Force One on arrival in Norfolk Virginia. The Ship arrives at the dock. Several views of the waiting families waving and smiling. The Navy personnel disembark the ship. They meet their relatives and children. A sailor kisses a woman. U.S. Navy sailors reuniting with family members.
Manufacturing of German weapons in Germany during World War 2. Opening scene shows steam and smoke rising from a German industrial complex in 1941. Inside the plant, men and women are at work in arms manufacture. A woman rides on a traveling crane, moving a large steel wheel suspended by a chain. Another woman operates a grinder from which sparks fly. A woman welder uses a torch on slabs of steel and another removes parts from a machine press. An array of new rifles moves past the camera, revealing men fitting barrels into rifle stocks. Closeup of a worker examining a rifle stock for symmetry. A man in protective clothing uses a long pole near a steel furnace. Bessemer-type furnaces emit flames as they are charged with oxygen. Caldrons filled with molten steel move while suspended below an overhead conveyer. A machinist turns the nose section of a large shell. A man uses white tape to tie finished munitions for shipment. Men working on several 122mm field pieces and others working on a line of 88mm anti-aircraft guns. Camera pans over assortment of shiny finished artillery shells. A container is raised up from an annealing operation. Men tend others where flame can be seen. Many workers walk in unison to a row of Junkers JU-88 aircraft fuselages. A 1,340 Junkers Jumo 211J twelve-cylinder engine for one is seen moving on an overhead conveyer. Assembled and painted Ju-88s are rolled through a hangar. One sits at the door of the hangar. A production line of Panzer tanks in various stages of completion. One moves through the plant on an overhead conveyer.
Opening scene shows German infantry marching along a road next to a body of water. A horse-drawn wagon carries some supplies. A German Army soldier climbs atop a stone monument with a metal representation of the word, showing the North and South arctic circles. It is dated 1937. He attaches a ribbon to the sculpture. Views of Norwegian coastal defense guns. German Navy gunships underway in background. Closeups of some gunships. Aerial views of German Heinkel He 111 bomber aircraft flying in formation over snow-covered mountains in Bergen, Norway. View from co-pilot's seat in a bomber. The He 111s flying low over a body of water. A long steel bridge over a body of water. German soldiers standing guard on the bridge, with a bicycles, and a tripod mounted M42 machine gun, as German troops on motorcycles pass along the bridge. sign on bridge marking boundary between two administrative entities (counties). Troops on bicycles riding across the bridge. Glimpse of coastal defense guns in Denmark and a German Soldier sentry.
Three hippies stand on a balcony talking in New Orleans, Louisiana. A hippie man combing woman's hair while sitting on balcony floor. City in the background. The hippie woman playing with a dog. Three hippies (two white and one black) stand on a balcony. A hippie in white outfit with a white hat speaks. A white hippie in suede vest medium long hair and beard. A black hippie in green sweater. All three standing hippies talk to one another and laugh. The patches on face of the hippie in white outfit. A close of the faces of hippies. They talk to each other. A close up of the face of hippie in white outfit who is talking to others.
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