View of the Ludendorff bridge over the Rhine River, at Remagen, Germany. An American soldier crossing the bridge on a pedestrian walkway. Captured German prisoners. A jeep approaches the bridge to cross. U.S. antiaircraft guns fire at German planes attempting to bomb the bridge. German bombs seen splashing into the river near the bridge. U.S. army vehicles line street and cross the bridge. A sign posted on the bridge reads 'Cross the Rhine with dry feet courtesy 9th Armored Division'. U.S. Infantry men march across the bridge. U.S. forces arriving on the East bank, from the bridge. Large numbers of German prisoners march along a road, guarded by U.S. Army soldiers. Mountains in the background.
Instant rehabilitation of housing in New York City. A demolition crew take out floors, walls and windows of a East side tenement in Manhattan. Instant rehabilitation is a joint city, state, federal private project. Officials give keys to habitants of the instant apartments. A woman inspects her new apartment.
The film titled 'Child of the Ghetto' depicts sorrows faced by a woman in the United States. Mix of dramatized scenes and actual footage. A woman weeps as she looks at her mother's dead body. A man consoles her. The woman sits in a chair in her house. Another woman comes and tells her to go out to work. At approximately 1 minute into the clip is seen footage of Rivington Street, in the lower east side of Manhattan, New York City, with immigrants crowding the sidewalks and push cart vendors and their carts jamming the curbs. She seeks work but is rejected several times. She finally gets piece work at a garment factory and takes a pile of clothes to her house. She sews clothes and goes to the factory to deliver the garments and get paid. The factory owner's son steals money from his father and accuses the woman of it. The woman runs from the factory and arrives at her house. A policeman arrives at her house. The woman runs from her house and hides in the country. A farmer sees her and takes her to his house. She started living at the farmer's house. The policeman comes to fish near the farmer's house. He sees the woman and recognizes her. She asks the policeman to believe she is innocent. He does, and goes back to fishing. The farmer and the girl are happy.
Soviet military forces in massed formations at Red Square, in Moscow, Russia. Joseph Stalin stands on balcony above. Scenes of rebellion in Europe and Asia. A map of Korea. June 25, 1950, as Korean War war broke out between North and South Korea. Buildings burning. Refugees fleeing. View of United Nations building on East River in New York City, where American ambassador Warren Austin is speaking. View of the Capitol in Washington, DC. President Truman, speaking, committed U.S. forces to action. U.S. Reservists are recalled to active duty to fight in Korea. Some are seen getting off a bus at a military base reception center. Recalled reservists with full field gear, starting their journey overseas, and later seen in Korea. U.S. tanks moving over the road manned by soldiers with World War Two experience. Numerous scenes of heavy artillery firing, mostly at night. U.S. regular Army, National Guard, and Army reserve soldiers engaged in fire fights in Korean War using tanks, artillery, mortars, and rifles. Soldiers administer first air and assist wounded comrades. American troops slogging through rain and snow in Korea. Soldiers eating from mess kits, and reading the Stars and Stripes newspaper, during a lull in combat. North Korean officers arriving, in snow, for armistice talks. Following the truce, American soldiers are seen packed up and heading home from Korea.
The fourth presidential election debate between Democratic nominee Senator John F. Kennedy and Republican nominee U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon on 21st October 1960 in in New York, United States. News correspondent Quincy Howe speaks prior to the fourth Kennedy-Nixon presidential debate. Mr. Howe reads out the rules and conditions under which the candidates will proceed. He says that Senator Kennedy will make the second opening statement and the first closing statement. Vice President Nixon speaks about the present issue in the United States which is keeping peace without surrender. The peace which is threatened by international communist movements. Nixon says that the United States has to learn from mistakes made in past. He relates to this by mentioning the period of the Iron Curtain in Europe and during the Korean War. Nixon says that situation in President Dwight Eisenhower's administration is reversed. He says that the United States made errors in the past in misjudging the Communists, applying same rules of conduct that are applied to the leaders of the free world. Nixon mentions East-West Paris summit conference of 1960 and Eisenhower's policy regarding Formosa Strait (Taiwan). Nixon speaks that that United States should increase its military strength to high level regardless of what potential opponents have and if any surprise attack is launched, the United States can destroy their war-making capacity. Nixon further says that American policies of military strength, economic strength, and diplomatic firmness will keep the peace without surrender.
A film titled 'Paratroopers Maneuver' about the British and U.S. paratroopers training in England during World War 2. Formation of Allied C-47 Skytrain in flight. Paratroopers in training seen in aircraft as they prepare to jump from the aircraft over RAF Ramsbury (USAAF Station 469) in Wiltshire county. Paratrooper soldiers inside the aircraft hookup to static lines. The jump master is photographed, by a camera strapped to his chest, as he descends with a cigar in mouth. Unusual view of face of paratrooper as he descends in mid air before parachute opens, and then relief and smile on his face as the chute opens and slows his descent.The paratroopers jump, descend and hit ground. The static lines are pulled back into the aircraft. Several paratroopers are pulled by strong breeze across the ground, before they can spill their chutes. One paratrooper being treated for injury suffered from collision with another trooper. Preparations made inside an aircraft to drop supplies. Supplies in parachutes dropped and land on ground. (These shots are taken flying just to the north of Ramsbury village and looking down on the woods and fields that are divided by Hilldrop Lane.) The airdrop of supplies is made by C-47 aircraft. The supplies descend and hit ground. (The C-47 aircraft in low flight formation drop the supplies in fields to the east of Hilldrop Lane just north of Ramsbury.)