A U.S. Army documentary about the spreading threats of communism contrasted with the American way of life in United States. In Ottumwa, Iowa, a farmer's young son drives his truck to sell his agricultural products along with his father. The boy drives his truck in the downtown of Ottumwa. The town square is shown and the truck turns toward the Post Office and the 5 & 10 cent store on the corner. A railroad worker with a handheld stop signal stops the traffic. A train passes on railroad tracks. The train engineer in the locomotive waves to the stopped traffic. Words "Burlington Route" painted on the locomotive door. Painted advertisements on the brick buildings at the railroad crossing, including, "Miller High Life, The Champagne of Bottle Beer."
In a U.S. Army documentary, an Army Sergeant walks on sidewalks of a typical 1950 small town in the rural United States -- Ottumwa, Iowa. Civilians on streets of the city. Various shops and 1940s and 1950s era automobiles. People from various walks of life talk to the Sergeant. The Sergeant recalls the town's ancestors entering America. The Des Moines river is shown with a small boat anchored at the end of a dock and men and boys fishing. Statue of Native American Indian Chief atop the Courthouse Building, Chief Wapello, whose tribe camped in the spot of the town years prior. The entrance of the library. Still images and drawings from the library depicting the town. Pictures of houses, shops and other buildings. People on the streets of Ottumwa. The Ottumwa Daily Courier newspaper headline announcing U.S. participation in World War I, "War Becomes Actuality." Images of members from Ottumwa's own Company G, 42nd Rainbow Division in WWI, including soldiers Arthur Menge, Charles Orman, Marlow Work. Views of WWI battle scenes. Oscar Nelson is remembered for heroism. WWI soldiers returning to American towns. Private Charles Orman 40 years later in Ottumwa. He enters a barber shop. Art Menge is also seen in the Barber shop. Aerial view of the city with many bridges, plants, factories, and homes visible. Cars and pedestrians on streets, The Ottumwa Bank, the Airport with a plane parked in front of the terminal, the Railroad train station with people waiting as a large sleek silver passenger train pulls up and arrives. The Hoffmann Drug store, the Ottumwa Hotel, The Ottumwa Daily Courier newspaper building, the Glover Motor Company, the Union Bank, and the Sunnyslope Sanitorium. Various homes and neighborhoods and 1950s automobiles. Governor Herschel Loveless, an Ottumwa native, at home with his wife. The home on Davis Street of the Miss Universe contest winner Carol Morris, and views of Ms. Morris in the pageant and receiving the winners crown in 1956.
Nazi Germans start armament and intensify their preparations for war under leadership of Adolf Hitler in Germany. Interior view of the Nazi headquarters, destroyed by explosion of the anti-Hitler bomb plot in Germany, during World War II, known as the 20 July Plot to assassinate Hitler. Adolf Hitler at a railroad station awaits Italian leader Benito Mussolini. Mussolini's train arrives; he descends and shakes hand with Adolf Hitler. The two leaders talk while other leaders stand by them. Adolf Hitler, Hermann Goering with Schutzstaffe and Vice Minister Heinrich Himmler bid goodbye to Mussolini as he departs by train.
Clip features multiple views of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin near time of Russian Revolution. However, opening scene is from 1923, showing cars parked near the Kremlin in Moscow during time of the XII Congress of the Russian Communist Party which Lenin did not attend due to illness. Views of office and desk area. Russian Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin in his office. Lenin reviews an honor guard after the October Revolution by the Bolsheviks in Russia. Soldiers salute Lenin during a ceremony at the Red Square in Moscow. Soviet workers at a ship port, working to load goods onto ships at harbor. More scenes of Lenin viewing soldiers including some who appear to be new recruits marching and undergoing drills in training. Lenin leans out of train car or truck and talks with his secretary sitting in his wagon. Soviet Russian soldiers assembling near Kremlin in Soviet Union.
U.S. Military Mission visits Communist headquarters and meets its leaders in Yenan, Shensi province, China during World War II. Natives perform a dance show as Chinese soldiers and officers of the American mission watch them. Chinese soldiers perform training and gymnastics. Soldiers display martial arts and combat training given to them. U.S. officers talk while watching the performance. Chinese women and artists stage a play.
Presidential candidate Richard Nixon's answers to a panel during a special television program in Michigan. A woman from the panel questions about using Federal funds to train police force. Richard Nixon speaks about his plans about training of police officers. Governor of Michigan and his wife among the audience listen to him carefully. Nixon advocates an open admission policy to his proposed police academy
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