The Organization Day of U.S. 51st Signal Battalion in Uijongbu, South Korea. Three men pass under a banner which reads 'Organization Day of the 51st Signal Battalion'. Trucks parked in the background. The men walk past a guard post. A jeep drives past the guard post.
A United States service library in Uijongbu, South Korea. Two men visit the service library. A board reads: 'Special Service Library' outside the quonset building of the library. One man asks the librarian for a book. An African American soldier looks at a copy of 'Life Magazine'. The two men leave. A man comes out of another building. Three men walk in a street. Jeeps parked in the foreground.
United States soldiers in Uijongbu, South Korea. The soldiers are engaged in recreation activities. They play various games on a muddy ground. The soldiers play baseball, volleyball and various other games. Tents in the background. Other men watch the soldiers playing games. A soldier pets a dog. A quonset hut. The soldiers eat food.
A show by the United Service Organization (USO) in Uijongbu, South Korea. United States soldiers seated on the ground watch the show. A jazz band performs. The name 'Herbie' is seen on the drum set. A woman tap dances in front of the soldiers. The soldiers take photographs. Other African American performers are seen.
Part of film tracing history of Thanksgiving Day in America. Opening scene shows forests in late summer, and then winds blowing and some leaves beginning to fall. A traditional single family home is seen and a family inside preparing their table for a Thanksgiving dinner. The six members of the family include a Mother, a Father, an older son, a teenage daughter, a young son, and an older woman (Grandmother, or Aunt). View of roasted Thanksgiving Turkey. The father leads the family in saying grace. A painting of the First Thanksgiving (1915), by American artist Jean Louis Gerome Ferris, is shown. Views of fields of corn and grain. Scene shifts to a 17th Century ship carrying the same 6-member family (dressed as Pilgrims) to America from Europe. Members of the family are seen planting seed for crops. The date 1621 appears superimposed upon scenes of crops ready for harvesting. Inside their log home, the father and youngest son engage in extended discussions, after which, the father gives the boy permission to go somewhere. The painting of the First Thanksgiving is shown again. Then the pioneer settlers, both men and women, fell and carry trees to build a church. View of a remarkably well built church and then of the family praying inside along with other pioneer settlers.
Reenactment of early American settlers in British Colonial America, seen working in agriculture. Women sow seed, and men plowing behind teams of horses View of a drummer playing a drum roll call to arms. The farmers stop what they are doing, grab their muskets and head off to a gathering of militia as part of Revolutionary War effort. The year 1775 appears over the gathering of armed farmers. A British General is seen at his headquarters in Massachusetts. He holds a dispatch of some sort and discusses it with one of his staff officers. He then summons two members of the local militia, and questions them about rising tensions between colonists and the Crown. After they leave, he dictates a communication to his superiors. Film closes showing the General in church, along with many colonial militia members.
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