Filipinos study the Japanese language during the Japanese Occupation of the Philippines in World War 2. Title card reads “Ang pagsisimula ng bagong Filipinas sa paga-aral ng wikang Hapon” (“The start of a new Philippines through learning the Japanese language” in English). A Japanese flag is displayed on a tall flagpole. Elementary schoolchildren performing physical exercises in front of a teacher playing a small piano. Schoolchildren form a circle around the teacher while dancing and singing. Schoolchildren enter school. Schoolchildren playing in the yard. Three Filipino boys sitting. A group of Filipino children sitting. Students crowd a school corridor. Children listen attentively to a teacher. A teacher writes in Japanese on a blackboard. Sign reads “Japan Cultural Hall Entrance- 219”. Young Filipino men and women attend a class in Nihongo (Japanese language). A Nihongo teacher teaches Japanese to Filipino adult students in a Japanese cultural center in Manila.
German occupation of Austria, or Anschluss, prior to World War II. Swastika shaped paper confetti falling from the sky. Austrian people gather on a street in Linz and cheer German military forces. Dreifaltigkeitssäule or Holy Trinity Column (Hauptpl., 4020 Linz, Austria) in foreground with German bomber aircraft in formation flight behind. Boys march. Civilians gather in a large number on the street and cheer. German soldiers and officers gather. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler in a motorcade moving along a street. The crowd cheers and waves. Hitler stands with other officials. Buildings along street sides. Hitler seen at night on a balcony waving to the crowd in Austria.
“Operation New Arrivals,” in 1975, at Eglin Air Force Base Vietnamese Refugee Center. Opening scene shows closeup of a clown in costume, standing among some Vietnamese refugee children who are gathered outdoors at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. Closeup of two boys sitting on folding metal chairs, eating ice cream popsicles. Many more closeups of children eating their popsicles. Next the children are seen seated in chairs, applauding for some kind of entertainment. Camera then shows the aforementioned clown, in front of the children, shaking hands with some of them. He then fashions some balloons into the shape of a bunny rabbit and gives it to a small child.
Vietnamese refugees at Eglin Air Force base in Florida, near the end of the Vietnam War and soon after the fall of Saigon. A board reads: 'Departure Center Noi Khoi Hanh'. A guard stands nearby. A man stands near a vehicle. A boy and a girl lift a bench. Men engaged in construction work. A man drives a bulldozer at the refugee camp.
U.S. Army Air Service test pilot 1st Lieutenant Russell L. Maughan's dawn to dusk flight across the United States on June 23rd, 1924. Lt. Maughan in the cockpit of a Curtiiss P-1 Hawk airplane. He takes off from Mitchel Field in New York at dawn. The airplane in flight over Manhattan, New York City showing the East River with Williamsburg, Manhattan, and Brooklyn Bridges. The Curtiiss P-1 Hawk in flight over the Wall Street district, the Battery Park and the Hudson River. The aircraft arrives at McCook Field in Dayton, Ohio. Lt Maughan in the aircraft. A ground-gasoline truck and a fire truck near the airplane as it is refueled with the engine running. He climbs out of the cockpit briefly to allow a boy to look inside. Maughan takes off from McCook field. He is seen by his Curtiss P-1 Hawk, after arriving at Crissy Field in the Presidio, San Francisco, California.
Hindenburg disaster in Lakehurst, New Jersey. German airship Hindenburg at the Lakehurst Naval Air station after it caught fire. Twisted girders and remains of the airship as naval officers inspect the damaged airship. An official comes out of a building as press questions him about the Hindenburg disaster. Mutilated passengers being put in an ambulances and being taken away for medical aid. Naval officers pose with a young boy outside a building. Officers at an inquiry being conducted into the Hindenburg disaster by the United States Department of Commerce. Officers swear prior to testifying before the inquiring committee.
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