A dramatized training film created by OSS (Office of Strategic Services) for training of secret agents during World War 2. A German agent in a bar joins a group of three persons seated around a table. Agent calls the waiter. Both are in conversation. Waiter notices inconsistencies in what the customer said, leading him to believe that the man might be a Nazi German spy. Waiter is seen using a 1940s pay telephone. He calls the authorities to report his suspicion about the spy. Newspaper clippings shows 'The German Saboteur' with photo of the man captured.
A dramatized training film created by OSS (Office of Strategic Services) for training of secret agents. A well dressed man, with a suitcase in hand, walking on a desolated road. A car passes. Man reaches railway station, crosses railway tracks. A moving train is seen. Interior of train, man seated with other passengers. A uniformed ticket checker comes and checks man's ticket along with others. A busy city street is shown. Man approaches a machinist's shop named 'George Durand Machinist'. (World War II period).
A training film on preparation of anti air craft search light equipment for combat use. Men at work with each piece of battery's equipment. Views of power plant, sound locators and searchlight. Men prepare for action for communication and transportation.
Celebration of Easter in different parts of the world. Christians during a Sunrise Service in the Cathedral-like majesty of Yosemite Park. A huge gathering in Hollywood Bowl for the Sunrise Service. President John F Kennedy with his wife Jacqueline Kennedy and their two children attend a private service at Palm Beach. Pope John XXIII extends his blessings "To the City and to the World". Before that, around 500,000 devotees attended the Mass in St. Peter's Square. Easter Parade in Fifth Avenue of New York City. The street is jammed by a huge crowd of spectators.
Film begins showing a man riding a horse past some cattle grazing, in Tex during World War 2. A large windmill is turning nearby. A boy visiting from England, dressed in western clothes, waves to the rider as he enters an enclosure. The boy envisions the cowboy wearing a six gun. He rides alongside the cowboy as they go to inspect and repair barbed wire fencing. Closeups of barbed wire fence and cattle grazing in various areas. The cowboy, wearing a gun belt, uses the but of his pistol to hammer on a fence post. The two ride to an area labeled: "Check Plot No. 5." The cowboy climbs through barbed wire fence into the area where he takes and records measurements. Next, men are seen riding on harvesters, pulled by horses, cutting grasses. Another rides a tractor pushing a pile of harvested grasses atop a screen through which it passes onto a larger pile. The young boy sits on his horse looking glum. Next, cowboys begin a roundup of cattle. A horse-drawn wagon passes by, filled with harvested grasses. The driver throws lots of it on the ground to provide fodder for cattle when snow prevents them from normal grazing.
At beginning, film shows wild horses being herded into a corral on a ranch and farm in Texas, during World War II. Cowboys select several horses for "breaking." A cowboy adjusts a saddle on a horse. He then goes to a fence where a visiting boy from England sits. He helps the boy to mount the horse. The boy rides out of the ranch enclosures with several cowboys. Cattle grazing on the sparse land. A cowboy watching over the herd. Cowboys setting up a camp with horse-drawn wagons and cooking supplies. They take food and coffee cooked over an open fire. Closeup of one sitting and eating from a metal plate. Others also eating their meals.
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