Documentary depicts the conversation of an Italian journalist with an American man. Transworld Airways (TWA) Constellation passenger plane lands at airport in Italy. Several people seated in the waiting hall at the airport. A young Italian journalist going to United States meets an American man. The men talk to each other about the mutual interests of both the countries. View of traffic in streets of New York. Pedestrians and vehicular traffic. Manhattan skyscrapers and skyline of New York City seen. A woman works in an office in the Empire State Building in Manhattan. View from her office of East River and Welfare Island. Chrysler Building seen slightly below the Empire State Building office level. View from Empire State Building to West. Ocean liner in Hudson River and New Jersey visible in distance. Taxis driving on Park Avenue. Italian-made automobiles are seen in traffic, including an Italian red convertible with top down. A woman enters the beauty salon of Julius Caruso. Italian creations are kept in the salon, including Venetian glass products. The woman gets her hair done by the stylist. Ferragamo shoes are seen. Exterior view of the Plaza Hotel, on Central Park, South. Woman enters the hotel carrying a parcel. She tries on some Italian designer coats. Women try Italian designer jewelry and evening gowns. Italian office machinery made by Olivetti Company is displayed. Leather bags made by Gucci, from Italy, are shown.
A newspaper strike comes to an end in New York, United States. Aerial view of Manhattan Island New York City with Empire State building skyscraper in background. Newspapers running on high speed printing presses, being printed after 114 days in New York newspaper strike by printing workers. A typesetter checks his work. The labor strike cost $450,000,000. Reporters at work in the news room. A reporter typing a story. People buy newspapers in the street, putting down coins while stacks of newspapers are delivered.. Trucks from the Daily Mirror, The New York World Telegraph, and The Sun deliver the papers. Night shot of traffic in Times Square with Canadian Club Whiskey and Admiral Television Appliances large neon light advertisements. People buy and read the newspapers at news stands the streets of New York.
United States Marines of 5th Regiment, 1st Marine Division, invade Talasea, New Britain, Papua New Guinea in World War 2. A Marine digs on the ground with a knife and uncovers a Japanese Model 93 ("Tape-measure") mine. He picks it up and scrapes mud from around the cover of the detonator. Marines walk on dirt road carrying equipment. Marines firing M2 60mm light mortar. Long line of heavily laden Marines slogging along jungle path.
New Fordson tractors in United States. The tractors in a row at a plant yard. Another row of tractors lined up. Men at the plant. Smoke from stacks rises.
First transcontinental non stop flight from New York to San Diego in United States. Dornier Do X flying boat takes off with 169 passengers from water. Pilots of first transcontinental non stop flight were Lieutenant Oakley G Kelly and John A Macready. Passengers sit in passenger plane. Cameraman at work inside plane.
Operation Head Start in United States. Children sit at library in Head Start Pre-school. They read books. Some of the children are white and some are African American in the integrated school class. Volunteer teaches new words to children. She uses toys and charts to do so. She asks other words(synonyms) from children. A boy sits on chair and tells the story of the three little bears, children laugh.
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