Depicts the signing of Franco-Nazi Peace Pact (Franco-German Declaration) in Paris. A steam engine train arrives at a railway station in Paris. Joachim Von Ribbentrop, the Nazi Foreign Minister moves out of the train. French Foreign Minister George Bonett and other officials welcome him. The two ministers and other officials at Elysee Palace for signing the Non Aggression Treaty. Ribbentrop and Bonett sign the treaty as a step towards European peace. Some ambient room noise in background.
United States Presidential elections of 1948. A huge crowd of supporters wait for the train 'Dewey Victory Special' of Thomas Dewey, the Republican candidate for U.S. Presidential elections. Supporters of Dewey outside the Sunrise Feed and Feed store in Warrensburg, Missouri, listen to Dewey as he addresses the crowd from the back of his train.
Organization of the United States Army. The Air Transport Service. Aerial routes to various parts of world displayed on a map. Training to engineers. Map shows various levels and officers. Weather reporter reporting from a station. Weather stations on various bases shown on map. Transport and fighter aircrafts take off and during flight. Army Airways communication bases all round world shown on a map. 11 commands of the air force. Map showing its strength and manpower. Training to airmen.
Organization of the United States Army and Services of Supply, their organizational set-up and duties. Map showing divided areas of operation under various units of Service Command. Housekeepers, house making and food for soldiers prepared by the Service Command employees. The Personal Department's activities are to recruit civilians in army. Civilians trained at Military Training Center. Civilians labor at a Steel factory. Workers, machinery and equipment, kilns and molten steel. (World War II period).
A crowd of men ,women and children stands along the roads waiting for a glimpse of the motorcade carrying former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Harry Truman to Westminster College, where Churchill later delivers his famous "Iron Curtain speech." Workers inside an office. Inside a moving U.S. Army signal corps vehicle A man talks on telephone while a photographer takes photo. Crowd of civilians walks towards a building. View of a Pullman car at the train station, and distant view of the dignitaries departing from the train in their motorcade.
Opening scene shows North State Street in the Loop area of Chicago, Illinois, around Christmastime, 1965. Two small Christmas trees sit atop shelves on a lamp post. The Marina City Condos are in the far background. Several sailors in uniform are among the pedestrians on the sidewalk. Heavy pedestrian traffic crossing by Shoppers Corner. Pedestrians including some sailors, near the Planters Hotel. Some persons are carrying umbrellas.Crowded sidewalks at East Randolph Street. Many American flags displayed on all the streets. Glimpse of a policeman directing pedestrians. Closeups of some people in the throngs, including young couples, Catholic Nuns in habit, people from all walks of life, going about their ordinary activities, and more sailors. Camera focuses on an open manhole in the pavement, where a man is working. Wooden sign around the open hole identifies him as a worker for the City Bureau of Electricity. A welder at work on an overhead marquee. Buses and trucks maneuvering under an elevated train track. The train moving atop the structure. Camera pans down a cluster of modern buildings, to an ice skating rink below, where skaters are enjoying themselves. A group of Sailors walking across a bridge.
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