Korean instructor with Popular Forces troops during a karate class at Chan Tho Training base in South Vietnam. Students jab in air with hands. Class advances step by step. Korean instructor calls a command to the class. Class fights using karate techniques in pairs. A student smashes a thick stack of slates kept in front of him. A man stands at attention and salutes. A student fails to break two bricks kept in front of him. The bricks later broken. A man smashes two bricks. Clenched fists of a student. A student straddled on the shoulders of other student. He holds out a curved piece of slate. Another student gives a high kick to kick it out of his hands. Two students fight using karate techniques. (Vietnam War period).
Funeral for Soviet Communist leader Mikhail Frunze. Streams of Russian mourners form lines in streets and pass by the body of Frunze, lying in State, on a catafalque in the Hall of Columns of the Labor Temple, Moscow. Family members are seen as well as honor guards of Soviet leaders, including: Lev Kamenev; Joseph Stalin; Mikhail Kalinin; and Mikhail Tomsky. Officials bearing the coffin of Lenin from the train station. Soldiers and citizens mass in Red Square, passing by the Mausoleum and Kremlin Wall Necropolis.
From film "The City". People come down the stairs of elevated train in the New York City. A man picks up a paper and crosses the road. Children play in streets, alleys and gutters. Children play near dustbins. Traffic on the road. Two boys climb behind a tram.
A garden in the Ginkakuji Pavilion, also known as the Silver Pavilion (2 Ginkakujicho, Sakyo Ward, Kyoto, 606-8402, Japan) in Kyoto, Japan. Three Japanese women take a walk. They walk to edge of a pond where their image is reflected in water. Maiko girls talk and laugh. The women are Geisha and Maiko, professional performance artists trained in traditional Japanese performing art styles, from the Gion district of Kyoto.
General Maurice Gamelin visits General Gort at British General Headquarters in France. Men stand at a railway station. Railroad cars in the background. A train arrives on the railroad tracks. General Maurice Gamelin and other French officers at the railway station. Several cars on the street. People stand and watch as the cars pass.
Group of German Navy sailors in the communications center of the German headquarters of the Kriegsmarine Northern fleet, work at numerous teletype stations. Next, the Admiral (Generaladmiral) in command, Rolf Carls, is seen pouring over nautical charts and maps and discussing them with officers of his staff. Scene shifts to naval armory where marine mines are being prepared for deployment. They move through the processing lines and then transported by railroad train cars. At a port, a crane lifts a mine, on a wheeled dolly onto the minelayer ship, "Tannenberg," where crew members roll it along the deck. Sailors write on it with white chalk. The Tannenberg seen underway, and then with sailors rolling mines (on their dollys) off the stern of the ship in the Baltic Sea. Sailors moving mines along the deck to the stern for launching. View from another ship of the mines dropping from astern the Tannenberg. Next, officers on deck in cold weather gear, look through binoculars as they sight threat from Soviet aircraft. Interior of the ship as sailors manipulate controls for an anti-aircraft gun. The ship's gun and a machine gun being fired. Soviet bombers seen very high overhead. Camera pans about the deck showing sailors firing at aircraft. Something raises a plume of water astern (a near-miss?). Next, several German patrol boats are seen moving at high speed. Sailor on a speeding patrol boat, stands precariously atop it as he signals with semaphore flags. From a patrol boat, bombs (or mines) are seen exploding behind in its wake. (Note: The Tannenberg was a passenger and ferry built in 1935. On 2 September 1939 the German Navy had her converted to a minelayer. In August 1940 she served as flagship of the minelaying ships, in the North Fleet. She was sunk on 9 July, 1941, off Sweden.)
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