Opening slate states: "The Railroad Strike, Scenes at the London Terminal and at the overcrowded bus and tram routes." People are seen walking about in a London train station after World War 1. Baggage is piled up on one section of a platform. Army officers climb onto an open car filled with luggage, and wave as they drive away. A large queue of people is seen at a bus station, where double decked buses are loading and discharging passengers. Women board a horse-drawn wagon as an alternate way of traveling. Back at the train station, Army officers help a woman from a car and then climb aboard it themselves with their luggage. A family sits atop a flat railway cart with luggage underneath. More views of too many people trying to get on too few buses. Scene shifts to Piccadilly Circus where pedestrians walk near the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain and the Criterion Theater.
Herbert Read, an English art critic, is seen in his office in London, England. Mr. Read is reading and speaking, with a bookcase seen in the background. Herbert Read shows two of his books, 'Art and Society' and 'Education through Art'. He comments on the presence of machines in society and how they influence humanity and art. He states that the visual arts must affect a compromise with machine, and this can only be done through abstract art.
Exterior of India Office. Sign 'India Office'. Office of Mr Leo Amery, the British Secretary of State for India. Mr. Leo Amery in conference with Maharajah of Kashmir, Hari Singh and Sir Feroz Khan Noon. Mr Amery discusses the Indian question. Both Maharajah of Kashmir and Sir Feroz Khan Noon, representatives of India at the war cabinet. Exterior of India Office. Sir Feroz Khan Noon leaves accompanied by his advisors. Mr Amery leaves. He gets into his car. (World War II period)
View from above of an outdoor enclosure with large banner above fence reading: "Crashed German Plane Here." Sign on fence states admission fee of 6 pence for adult and 3 pence for children. The crashed plane is a German Me-109, covered by a camouflage net canopy. Inside the enclosure, a sign leaning against the plane's fuselage reads: "In Aid of Local Spitfire Fund." Two RAF Sergeants appear to be in charge of the display. The aircraft engine cowling is missing revealing the engine. The propeller blades on the plane are bent. Two girls read the Poster about aid of local Spitfire fund and another reading "Send up our Fighters, They'll knock down the Blighters (Fighter Plane Fund)." A boy joins the girls reading the posters. People put money in a can for local Spitfire fund during Battle of Britain.
Indian President Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan on a state visit to England. A railroad train pulls into Victoria Station in London, England. Queen Elizabeth II and Duke of Edinburgh Prince Philip at the station to welcome President Radhakrishnan. Dr. S. Radhakrishnan exits a Pullman car of the train and shakes hands with the Queen. President Radhakrishnan is greeted by Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and other dignitaries. An honor guard at the station to give a royal welcome. A royal carriage carries the President, the Queen and the Duke. The carriage comes to a halt and the royal party gets off. The President, the Queen and the Duke.
Ministers arrive and leave at 10 Downing Street in London, England during World War II. Minister of Information Alfred Duff-Cooper and Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister Brendon Bracken. Officers, holding maps in hand, get out of the cars and enter a building. Minister of War Anthony Eden, Admiral Dudley Pound, Chief of the Imperial General Staff Sir John Dill, and Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs Viscount Caldecote enter the building. Official cars drive past on 10 Downing street. Arthur Greenwood, Lord of Admiralty walking out of the building. Ministers come out of the building.
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