Trinity Church and empty streets of Manhattan, New York City. Instrumental audio begins, accompanying scenes of busy roadways and traffic jams in the United States. Many 1930s automobiles seen from Ford, Chevrolet, Packard, Chrysler, and others. Passenger cars as well as delivery and freight trucks. Scenes of cars driving steadily on the highways and roads in the United States. Number of cars drive steadily on a six lane road. Scenes of cars stuck in long lines of traffic. Exasperated drivers. Drivers get out of their cars in the jam to talk to each other. A mechanic replaces flattened tire of a car on the road side. Many outdoor advertising signs featuring local businesses and services. A boy helps a girl peer over a high stone wall where she sees a "no trespassing" sign. The kids join their parents in a picnic on the roadside. A police officer on a motorcycle shakes his head in disbelief at the traffic. Signs warn drivers about traffic safety. A wooden mannequin of a policeman with arms waving to slow down traffic. A man works on the engine of a car. A crashed car and a crane. View from a valley as a car soars over the edge of the road embankment above and crashes down a mountainside, with pieces flying everywhere.
United States President John F. Kennedy arrives at Andrews Air Force Base near Washington DC and takes off in the VC-137C Air Force One plane. People in stands wait for the arrival of President and First Lady Jacquelin Kennedy. Ground staff members instruct a taxiing plane. President and First Lady arrive in United States Marine Corps VH-3A helicopter. President gets into a VC-137C followed by a Navy aide. Aircraft ramp rolls away. The plane takes off. Other charter planes parked at the air force base.
Normandy invasion Religious Service before D-Day invasion during World War II. United States soldiers climb the cargo net to board the United States Ship Bayfield (APA-33). Landing Craft Vehicles (LCV) loaded with soldiers and equipment underway to the beach of Normandy.
United States officers inspect currency, gold coins, jewelry and other items from a cave at Buchenwald concentration camp. United States officers recover things of value from a cave. Officers inspect them. More material drawn from the cave.
Life of Americans in enclave in West Berlin. American children at United States Army community school in West Berlin. American music being played on radio as youth dance to rock and roll tunes. American soldiers on duty outside the United States Headquarters in West Berlin. In East Berlin soldiers including Russian comrades march and salute. Nikita Khrushchev arrives at an airport in Berlin and greets East German leader Walter Ulbricht with an embrace and hand shake. East Berliners move as refugees to refugee camps in the western half of Berlin, to escape East German communist rule. Khrushchev and other Soviet leaders pounding fists on a table at a diplomatic gathering.
People line up in large number to enter Hotel Waldorf Astoria to view General Motor's auto show Motorama in New York City, United States. Sign reads “GM General Motors Motorama of 1953” at the entrance of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel (301 Park Ave, New York, NY 10022, United States). Men form long lines on Park Avenue. Dancers perform a ballet in front of a large audience during the motor show.
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