Opening scenes show radio studio announcers in different countries and in different languages sharing news updates as they speak into microphones. Photographers and camera men shoot a news conference featuring President Eisenhower. President Dwight D Eisenhower speaks whle newsmen, journalists, and reporters disperse quickly from the room and telephone their notes and papers to publish the story. An official exits a taxi cab car and enters the USIS building at 1776 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington DC. View of door of Office of Director of USIA. '423' and 'Theodore C. Streibert' written on nameplate of office of director of USIA. Narrator describes the people there as working to "reinforce truth against distortion and the big lie." Director Streibert talks on the telephone and sits for a meeting in his office and talks about overseas posts. Map on wall.
African American small businesses in the U.S. Drugstore; TV and Radio shop; Mens clothing store; Medical Supply company. An African American pharmacist with a customer in a drug store. African American businesses in Harlem, New York City. Signs : 'Hotel Theresa, Skyline Ballroom', and 'Ray Robinson enterprises'. Former boxing champion Sugar Ray Robinson enters the office of his company and discusses business matters with a woman, inside. In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Mrs. Robert Lee Vann and editor-in-chief, Bill Nunn, discuss a weekly edition of their newspaper an office of The Pittsburgh Courier. Their Society editor in her office with members of her staff. A man operating a printing press of the Courier Newspaper. In New York City, views of The Manhattan Empire Linotype School, owned by African American businessman, Edwin Jenkins. Students in the school select type for a manual printing job. An instructor is seen near an advanced linotype machine. Owner, Edwin Jenkins is seen with students in the school. Many men and women students, of different races, seen at machines, learning the trade. Mr. Jenkins conversing with another businessman, in his office.
Depiction of 1889 Oklahoma land rush with a mass of claim seekers racing across land on horseback and in covered wagons to claim land. Reenactment of frontier claim seekers submitting their claim papers to a clerk in an office. Actual footage of pedestrians and traffic on a busy city street in the very early 1900s. Reenacted scene of early horse drawn trolley or street car. A man and woman riding on a tandem bicycle built for two. Early but reenacted footage of people on a bicycle built for four riders. Actual footage of a very early automobile race in the 1910s or 1920s. Views of a Ford automobile assembly line with new vehicles being assembled. The body of a new car is lowered into position on the chassis. Wheel rims run down a track into place on an assembly line. A car operating on a street.
Scene of steam locomotive starting to move. Engineer in the locomotive cab. Franklin D Roosevelt's Presidential election campaign. A railroad train pulls up at a station in Kentucky. Governor of New York, Franklin D Roosevelt addresses a public meeting in Topeka, Kansas,about the new deal and its help for farmers. His train arrives in Seattle and a large crowd welcomes him at the rail road station. A train moves over a bridge and Roosevelt arrives in Springfield, Georgia to campaign for the Presidential elections. He receives a warm welcome in Georgia.
New York Daily News headline reads 'Japan at war with U.S.' Journal American newspaper headline reads:'US votes war'. Boxes of M-1 ammunition being off-loaded from a ship by African American soldiers, and placed on a roller conveyer. U.S. Army tank, trucks, and aircraft ready for shipment overseas.
US Army recruits in World War 2 hold buckets of sand and stand barefoot on one leg at a time as doctor checks for flat feet and shoe sizing. A Lieutenant checks the fit of a new uniform jacket on a soldier. A group of newly recruited soldiers try on uniforms. A group of soldiers buttons their new Army overcoats
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