Landscape and natural terrain views of Alaska, areas of South Eastern Alaska and Tongass National Forest where native indigenous indian totem poles are made are shown. View of glaciers across water. Two women walk away from a small PanAm passenger airplane on an airfield in Alaska. Aerial views of snow covered mountains, and wooded mountains and lakes in Alaska. Harvested wood timber floating in large pens in waterways of Alaska. Fishing boat and hauling in a large catch of salmon fish by net. View of waterfall. Mountain and lake scene at sunset.
A film titled 'The family' shows husband and wife and family members in America in the early 1950s. A woman hanging clothes outside rural or small town house. Boy looks out of window when called by mother. Interiors of the house. Wife talks with husband while having tea at breakfast table. They are joined by an older woman (grandmother), the boy and a girl. Family talking and having breakfast. Girl shows newspaper to father. Man leaves to go to work. Women in homemaker or housewife roles of the time doing their routine household work in house and helped by the boy in the family.
Members of a 1950s American family at their places of work and sharing time at home together. Steam locomotive pulling passenger train at high speed past a railroad station, without stopping. A railroad employee arriving at office relieving another employee finishing his shift. The employee engaged in various tasks at the rail office. He places a package on platform as another high speed passenger train passes. Hills and lake in background. Scene shifts to several boys playing at a swimming hole. One lying on ground, playing a recorder musical instrument, jumps up, waves goodbye to friends, and rides away on his bicycle (past a man using a scythe). Closeup of name: "Gazette Building," on building. The boy arrives there, picks up papers, and rides off again to deliver them in his job as a newspaper delivery boy. Views of town streets and shops. Two women window shop and discuss a sewing machine on display. Change of scene to woman serving at counter in a restaurant. She serves coffee to a customer and carries milk shakes to two boys and two girls at a table. The girls discuss dresses pictured in a magazine. Next, the waitress is seen looking at a fancy dress in a shop window. Next is a classic 1950s image of a family at home in the living room: A mother, father, boy, and grandmother, in their living room at home. Both women do needlework, husband smokes a pipe and reads newspaper, and son reads lying on floor. Father and son start game of checkers, and son blows on his recorder. The housewife suggests getting a sewing machine. Her husband speaks of saving to paint the family house. Mother points out things she could make and save thereby save money. All discuss the matter, and the boy volunteers to contribute some of his earnings to the family, too. Suddenly, the waitress (older daughter in this family) appears showing them her new dress. The father objects to the purchase and the girl leaves. The family is distressed and members try to soothe one another. A phone call causes the mother and father to leave suddenly. They find their daughter distraught sitting alone on bleachers in stadium. They hug her and all leave together. They return to their wood frame home, where grandmother hugs the daughter. The family sits around the kitchen table and reconciles together, with the grandmother dispensing wisdom in the process.
Newsmen and journalists from around the world entering a conference room showing identification cards in the ninety-fifth Press Conference at White House. President Dwight Eisenhower on mike answering questions raised by journalists. A woman journalist asks a question. Reporters writing in notebooks. President speaks about the Constitution of United States of America. Further he says that violence in any form is not acceptable.
President Dwight Eisenhower on mike answering questions raised by a journalist about changes in Sugar Act, related to Cuba's sugar quota. Reporters writing in notebooks. Close view of President replying. He says United States of America has always been friendly with Cuban people. Journalists applaud and start moving out.
President Dwight Eisenhower at mike answering questions raised by journalists at a conference at White House. View of conference where journalists are seated. Journalists writing on notepads.
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