J Film begins showing the Japanese ocean liner Tatsuta Maru underway at sea. A slate and photo are shown dedicating the film to Stephen Ordway. a boy of the youngest generation. Interior of a building shows the Japanese Chairman of the Society for International Cultural Relations (Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai) speaking. Two Japanese women in boat. Fisherman throws net. Many Japanese boatmen pulling on long hawsers to bring boats toward the beach. Mountains surrounding houses in a village. A Japanese woman sits in a traditional veranda-like engawa, in which she arranges flowers (ikebana). She stands and adjusts her traditional kimona garment, helped by a younger woman. Several Geisha girls are seen in various activities and walking alond a sidewalk. One performs a traditional slow dance before the camera.
A film based on Pueblo Indian people living in Pueblo villages of the Southwestern United States. A Pueblo Native American Indian woman holds up a shallow basin of wheat. Wind blows the chaff away as she pours the wheat onto a blanket. A kneeling woman grinds corn on a stone slab in front of a mud oven. A man uses a long handled wooden paddle to place in and remove bread from the oven.
A train moving on the Union Pacific Railroad in the United States. A herd of cattle advances across the Americn plain. Close up view of Long Horn cattle. A train pulled by a black steam locomotive moving on the Union Pacific Railroad depicts the First Transcontinental Railroad Line of the United States opened for through traffic on May 10, 1869. The locomotive engine of the train as it emits black smoke. Mountain and western United States landscape views. A windmill in operation. Distribution of water and farmlands in the Western United States. A herd of cattle crossing a river.
California State Department of Forestry firefighting helicopter is seen flying overhead and dispersing a long trail of foam from a suspended bucket, over a fire on the ground. View from the air of burned forest with smoke rising and isolated flames.
A supervisory firefighter briefs teams about people not seeing flames and not feeling threatened, so they may be getting tired of seeing firefighters all the time. He describes this as approaching the "5th stage" of rescue which he defines as "shoot the rescuer." The assembled firefighters chuckle about this. A long line of firefighters walks along a dirt road and enter the Stanislaus National Forest. Smoke blows from the entrance.
The 1972 Summer Olympic games (XX Olympiad) in Munich, Germany. Men and women athletes, in civilian clothes, stroll about and relax in the garden walkways of the "Olympic village." A woman, with long hair, sits in the garden. An olympic official strolls amongst the athletes.
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