Various landscapes showing rugged mountain terrain, Ancient Greek ruins and fortifications in Greece, Turkey, Cyprus and Iran. Iranian students, including one woman, measure chemicals inside laboratory. A professor teaches anatomy using a 4d model during a lecture. Professor points to lungs of model. A Muslim woman in medical consultation with a young female doctor and nurse. Donkeys carry bales of hay in Greece. A farmer leads donkeys to side of the road as a transport truck drives near. View of rural road in a mountainous village in Greece as seen from driver’s seat. Cars and pedestrian crossing new bridge. View of a small mountain village in Greece.
Chairman Nikita Khrushchev and Yugoslavian President Josip Broz Tito touring earthquake areas of Skopje city, capital of Macedonia, (in then Yugoslavia). Khrushchev visits the earthquake devastated area of Skopje. View of destroyed buildings and houses in city. Khrushchev with Tito in front of the local crowd. Crowd clapping on their arrival. Khrushchev, Tito and others leave.
Italy invades Greece during the Greco-Italian War of 1940-1941, also during World War II. Two Italian Savoia-Marchetti SM.79 Sparviero aircraft in formation flight and dropping bombs over Greece. Bombs impact and smoke rises up. Italian tanks roll and troops advance. A military truck. Italian Army soldiers load shells in an artillery and fire it. Greek Premier Ioannis Metaxas reviews an honor guard in Greece. Greek soldiers march in review. Scottish soldiers in skirts also march at the parade. Italian soldiers in Sidi Barrani, Egypt. Soldiers fight and advance across a field.
King George II of Greece, the Duke and the Duchess of Kent and others attend the marriage ceremony of the Duke of Spoleto and Princess Irene of Greece in Florence, Italy. Dignitaries and guests stand at a balcony of a building. King George II of Greece arrives in a car. Princess Irene and Duke of Spoleto walk out of a church and pose.
King Paul and Queen Fredericka arrive in parliament of Greece, in Athens to take oath as new monarch of Greece. Deputies stand on their seats and clap for the King and Queen. King Paul replaces his recently deceased brother King George. After the oath taking King and Queen went out of the parliament saluted and greeted by deputies.
Ruins and rubble in city of Skopje, the capital of Macedonia, following a massive earthquake. Destroyed houses, wrecked cars and rubble of buildings in the city. Inhabitants are evacuated. Women and children in fields. Rescue teams comprised of mine workers and troops continue to discover survivors. Survivors are taken on stretchers. Medical teams treating injured civilians. Rescue operations in progress.