Airplane in air. Riggers with their parachutes. They jump from the plane and open their parachute. Riggers land on ground. A rigger removes his parachute after landing. Riggers sitting in maintenance shed. An instructor guides them to operate sewing machine through a model. A light duty sewing machine is used to patch canopy of parachute. A part of parachute canopy patched is displayed. Parker, a rigger operates a heavy duty sewing machine to repair harness of the parachute. Suspension lines are sown on a zigzag sewing machine. Hook is attached on a parachute on a hook and eye attachment sewing machine. The rib-cord is reinforced on a bar tacking machine. Holes are darned in the parachute canopy on a darning machine. Riggers darn holes with hands. They also replace hooks and harness assemblies. Parker works in the maintenance shed on a table. He checks canopy and notes on a pad. He also checks the suspension lines and harness assembly.
African American woman who is an agent from the Tuskegee Movable School demonstrates various household and service skills to other women. The teacher demonstrates a fire-less cooker as women gather around her. She also shows dressing of wounds and cleaning and washing a child, as the baby cries. She demonstrates how to make fly paper. Women and men clean and mend beds and furniture under their guidance. A woman learns shoe shine skills and practices cleaning and polishing shoes. (Note: The female extension agents shown likely include Rosa B. Jones, Uva Mae Hester, or N. Juanita Coleman)
Henry Brown and his wife and two children board a horse cart. The horse cart moves, passing fields, trees and stores in Tuskegee, Macon County, including WJ Brantleys grocery market and the Macon Theatre on Northside Street. They reach an Army Air Force Base (Moton Field). Henry's eldest son, a cadet of 99th Pursuit Squadron (Tuskegee Airmen African American fliers in World War 2) receives them. They all move to the aerodrome where planes are parked. Henry's eldest son gets ready for a flight. He enters the cockpit. The plane takes off. The two children wave their hands. Henry and his wife look to the sky.
Japan as the land of tradition, culture and mannerisms. Views: Japanese uses large suspended log to strike large bell in Shinto temple. Japanese in traditional dress as Samuri, demonstrate use of bow and arrow while galloping on horseback. Two Japanese men practice bayonet dueling with wooden rifles. American occupation troops marching into Japan, as population watches apprehensively. Scenes of postwar devastation.
Aerial views of snow-covered Camp Ashigawa Hokkaido, Japan, home of the 2nd Division, Japanese Ground Defense Forces Northern Corps. Japanese self defense force engineers assemble a Bailey Bridge. Defense Force personnel cross the new bridge in a half-track armed with antiaircraft guns Officers of 2nd signal unit, surrounded by snow banks, work on map reading exercise. Members of 2nd artillery regiment do practical exercises in setting up and operating a 155mm howitzer, in the snow. Members of the Aviation section practice emergency receiving and sending messages from ground to air. A light airplane (PA-18?) snags a message capsule suspended between two poles. The Japanese flag. A new unit of Japanese self defense forces in Northern Honshu. Local townspeople visit the camp in motorcade of jeeps. Japanese Defense force units parade in a ceremony. High ranking Japanese Officers, along with United States Generals Orlando Troxel and Herbert J. Vander, seated during ceremony. Officer, on Japanese Defense Force Sherman tank, salutes. Squadron of L-5 Sentinal Airplanes in flight.
Students study Kendo outdoors at Methodist mission's Hirosaki Boys' School in Aomori, Japan. Crowds of students wearing armor bow to their sensei before the kendo class inside the campus (13-1 Minori-cho Hirosaki-shi, Aomori 036-8231). Male high school students bring out their swords. The put on their helmets. Two students wearing Kendo armor, also known as Bogu. A pair of students engage in a kendo match. Two Kendo sensei teachers bow to the camera before starting a match. The two men engage in a sword fighting match. Japanese students practice Kendo. A Japanese sensei stands near his students.
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