A very large canoe, seating approximately 15 native people, glides to shore of a river next to other similar craft. Automobile drives onto a wooden ferry raft. River and environs as seen from the ferry. View of river and waterfall, as seen from overlooking hill. Close view of waterfall. Man climbs cliff above the falls. Wooded area burning with brush fire..
Beginning of the second battle of El Alamein in Egypt between British Eighth Army and German Forces in October, 1942, during World War 2. Map of Africa shows German forces advancing from coast. Positions of German and Italian forces. Allied positions include Australian, Indian, South African and Highland Divisions joined in as reinforcement for British Eighth Army. German officers attend a conference in Berlin. Joseph Goebbels and Fuhrer Adolf Hitler greet German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in Berlin after Rommel became Commander of German Forces deployed in North Africa. Rommel, beside Goebbels, speaking to German political and military leaders in Berlin. View from a July 15, 1942 ceremony in which Hitler congratulates Rommel on his promotion to Field Marshal (a promotion which was effective June 21, 1942.)
Opening scene shows a Russian steel gateway topped by a propeller and two stars. Camera pans down to show that this is the entrance to a Soviet airfield containing a damaged hangar and Soviet military aircraft scattered about. Closeup of a destroyed Soviet airplane. A damaged Soviet Tupolev Tu-2 bomber. Numerous damaged Soviet Polikarpov I-15 bi--wing fighter aircraft. Caissons and Soviet artillery sitting at a railroad siding. Closeup of a damaged artillery piece. Numerous pieces of abandoned soviet artillery, sitting next to heavy guns mounted on rail cars. Soviet tanks missing their turrets. A German soldier examines what looks like a damaged British Mark V tank of World War I vintage. Camera pans over a number of undamaged Soviet tanks parked in a field. Thousands of captured Soviet prisoners of war are seen on a hillside, and then marching under guard. Closeup of one with a large star on his uniform hat. Soviet prisoners being marched about ten-abreast along a road. (Note: about 20 thousand Soviet troops were captured by the Germans in Operation Barbarossa.)
A polo match between Greentree team and Anglo-American Jaguars at Meadow Brook Club in Westbury, New York. A crowd of 12,000 people seated in the spectator area. Spectators cheer. Greentree wins the opening match by a score of 15-9. Tommy Hitchcock and Pete Bostwick star for the winners.
Richard Nixon-Spiro Agnew election campaign for the Presidency in United States. Lincoln Memorial and reflecting pool, at night, as seen from the Washington Monument (2 15th St NW, Washington, DC 20024, United States). Potomac River in background. View of the U.S. Capitol Building and the White House. Presidential Seal. Officials deliberating. Ballistic missiles. Soviet leader, Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev. Chinese Chairman Mao Zedong, Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. Russian troops. U.S. Aircraft carrier. U.S. helicopters in flight. U.S. tank crew in a Patton tank. Citizens of United States. U.S. soldiers in Vietnam War. Presidential Seal. The White House. Aerial view of Manhattan Island, New York City. Statue of Liberty in New York. The campaign stresses that Nixon has the required qualifications and experience of a leader.
Richard Nixon-Spiro Agnew election campaign for the Presidency in United States. United States citizens. A huge crowd gathered on the streets. Westminster skyline of London. Several boats in the Thames River. Champ Elysees, with Arc de Triomphe (Pl. Charles de Gaulle, 75008 Paris, France), at night. The Brandenburg Gate (Pariser Platz, 10117 Berlin, Germany) in Berlin, behind barbed wire. Lines of Russians on Red Square, in the snow. St. Basil's Cathedral in background. Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev and Soviet leaders. Chinese leader Mao Zedong and North Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh. Egyptian leader, Gamal Abdel Nasser. British Prime Minister Harold Wilson. Cuban President Fidel Castro. French leader, Charles de Gaulle. Hotline telephones on a table. Men seated with notepads in a press conference. Several microphones in view. Presidential Seal. Buildings and monuments in view. Washington Monument (2 15th St NW, Washington, DC 20024, United States) behind the White House. Nixon-Agnew Presidential election campaign states that Nixon will speak for United States and its citizens in the world.