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British Wartime General Election gives control to the Labor party in 1945
Opening slate of this film reads" Churchill Defeated." It goes on to show Winston Churchill attending his last meeting with wartime allied leaders at Podsdam, Germany in July, 1945. He shakes hands with Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov. His replacement, Clement Attlee who is also there. View from above of Soviet leader, Joseph Stalin greeting the new British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee, who is accompanied by Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and U.S. President Harry Truman, accompanied by Secretary of State James F. Byrnes. The wartime leaders gather around a large round table. Closeup of Marshal Stalin and Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov. Closeup of U.S. President Harry S. Truman at the conference table. View from above of the principals at the table. Film shifts to scenes of Major Attlee campaigning for votes. People in street listening to Ernest Bevin campaigning. Views of Winston Churchill being given a hearty farewell by a crowd, as he rides through on an open vehicle. Closeups of him he picks up a microphone to address the throng. Scene shifts to views of British voters casting their ballots. King George VI strolls with new Prime Minister Attlee and Winston Churchill. He poses with the new Prime Minister (Attlee) and Ernest Bevin on his right. At his left is Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden. Closeups of Clement Attlee.
The Castro-led revolution in Cuba.
Film opens with bongo drummer playing and other Cuban musicians playing instruments while dancers in fetching costumes dance and enjoy themselves. Scene shifts to view from water of Havana skyline and then to automobile traffic on a busy street in a commercial district of the city. A Busy street crowded with pedestrians on sidewalks. Cuban workers leaving an industrial plant at shift end. Smoke pouring from three tall smoke stacks in background. Large machines employed in a factory. A construction worker in the cab of earth moving equipment. A field worker rotating a long wooden boom by hand. Men cutting sugar cane with machetes. A farmer opening gate to allow water into an irrigation network. View of water rushing into the irrigation ditches and entering the area of crops. A farmer using cattle to pull his plow. Cattle entering a stockyard. Shoppers at an open-air market filled with all kinds of fruits, vegetables and other agricultural products. Families of poorer people in rural areas outside of Havana. They live in shacks ahd are photographed with their small children. Next, two uniformed members of the Cuban National Police (Policia Nacional de Cuba) are seen. (The narrator mentions that Cuban people lived for 60 years under a succession of corrupt and often dictatorial leaders.) View of men in a line being monitored by a National policeman. Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar is seen next to his wife, Marta Fernández Miranda, as they cast ballots in the 1952 Presidential election. Glimpse of several Cuban National Police lined up looking over a wall. Next, members of Fidel Castro's resistance movement are seen silhouetted against the sky, as they walk, carrying arms, in the mountain regions of Cuba. Fidel, himself is silhouetted as his men walk past him. Views of Castro's men moving through the rugged mountain terrain as shots are being fired. The combat becomes more intense. The views are from the Castro forces as they engage in fire fights with Batista forces (unseen). Machine guns are heard, and an explosion occurs. More views of the Castro forces using a machine gun and small arms. Scene shifts to a public square in Havana as it fills with people celebrating the downfall of Batista on 1s of January, 1959. Crowds surround Fidel Castro as he arrives in Havana. The crowds cheer him wildly. as the hero, and liberator of the Cuban people. Castro addresses the crowds from a balcony, promising them elections, land reform,freedom and the rights guaranteed under the Cuban Constitution of 1940. Glimpse of a copy of that document. View of Manuel Urrutia raising his hands to acknowledge the crowd, when he was named President on January 3rd, 1959. Fidel Castro arriving in New York City and greeted as a Cuban Nationalist hero. Castro waving to crowds of admirers. In Washington,DC, he is seen placing a memorial wreath at the Statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln memorial. Castro speaking at a press conference in Washington,DC. Speaking from a podium, in English, he states emphatically that he is not a communist. Castro is seen later, back in Havana at a large political gathering, where he and Che Guevara along with other revolutionaries, engage others in publicly broadcast discussions and debates. A barefoot boy is brought into the center of the proceedings, where he points an accusing finger toward someone (not clear who that person is). View inside a newspaper printing plant, as Narrator states Castro began attacks on the Press resulting in the demise of the Free Press, and its takeover by government run newspaper "HOY." View of Hoy sign in front of a newspaper building. Communist propaganda seen dominating papers and magazines at a news stand. Small bust of Lenin seen for sale.
U.S. President Harry Truman in an award ceremony of USO (United Service Organizations)
President Truman's limousine arrives at the Union Station in Washington, DC, United States. U.S. President Harry Truman participates in an award ceremony of USO (United Service Organizations). A banner reads 'USO' . President Harry Truman presents awards an Army Sergeant and a Wave. The award recipients lead others in taking refreshments from a long table set up in the portico of the Union Station. A woman wearing armband reading 'USO' helps serve the guests. A sailor, a woman Marine, and a soldier, sit on a sofa and read magazines in the USO room of the Union Station. Three soldiers sit on a sofa and enjoy their refreshments.
U.S. wartime propaganda film - Japanese people toil in industry and at warfare unified to help Japan win World War II.
United States anti-Japanese propaganda war film about Japan and its people, and its intentions in World War 2. A White actor narrator impersonates a Japanese man, enforcing negative stereotypes and mocking Americans. “You’ve learned that the Japanese do not show their feelings, nor do I have big teeth and thick glasses- how sad to disillusion you” the narrator mocked. Japanese people work to help Japan win war. Japanese people work on a farm. People row in boats on a lake facing Mount Fuji. Snow-capped Mount Fuji. Volcanic explosion. Japanese soldiers seize the United States flag. Japanese flag flying. Sacred fishes in a pool. Soldiers hold Japanese flags as they cheer Banzai in a victory celebration after battle. Modern buildings in a Japanese city. High altitude view of buildings in an area. Bombardment in a city. Destroyed houses, buildings, and rubble on the ground of Japanese cities. United States warplane aircraft fly in formation. Aerial view of a Japanese city. People walk on the street. Vehicles pass on street. Ship 'Argentina Maru' docked at a Japanese harbor. People sow rice seeds on the farm. Narrator (actor impersonating a Japanese person) mocks Americans as being soft. View in an American town of cars parked along the sides of a main street. American 1940's cars. Jockey's Ball banner. People queue at theater box office and in train stations. United States nightclubs, bars, and casinos. United States people at beach. Japanese industry and munitions factories. Ships underway at sea. United States Marines carry a dead soldier on stretcher. United States Marines coming ashore and Japanese soldiers fighting in Pacific islands such as Guadalcanal and Tarawa. Forces of both sides fire guns and artillery. Smoke from bombardment. Ragged Japanese forces surrendering to United States forces. Japan's best forces shown marching in formation and review. Young Japanese soldiers in training. Japanese children study in a school. Burning Japanese city following attack. Japanese citizen refugees flee, a woman crawls across a railroad track. Japanese girls and boys exercise simultaneously outdoors. Japanese soldiers execute two men (possibly in China?). Prisoners held by Japan in forced labor; others executed. Japanese soldier puts his hat on a little girl, other children playing. Remains of a newborn infant wrapped in cloth lying on the street. Forced laborers from Japanese-occupied countries are made to farm rice. Remains of victims of Japanese forces. Heads of decapitated victims lying on the field. United States prisoners emaciated and injured in the Philippines. A United States soldier wipes his tears after losing an arm. Remains of United States troops, Japanese soldiers, and Asia civilians. Japanese soldiers deploy for war at train station. Map showing Japan, China, Manchuria, and Mongolia. A Type 3 Chi-Nu tank rolling up a fortress in China. Soldiers marching on rice fields and climbing rocky cliffs. Japanese soldiers assume prone position, firing rifles.
King Faisal of Saudi Arabia rides in a motorcade in Washington, DC, during a formal state visit to the U.S.A.
King Faisal ibn Abdul Aziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia during a visit to Washington DC. A banner across the street reads 'Welcome His Majesty King Faisal'. Cars move out of the White House. Spectators line the sidewalks outside the White House. The White House in the background. Flags of the United States and Saudi Arabia. A military bands plays. U,S. military units parade. Spectators line the sidewalks. The King and President Johnson in a motorcade. A poster of King Faisal and President Johnson on a pole. A flag of Saudi Arabia and a poster beneath the flag. The King and the President ride in the rear seat of a limousine, with Secretary of State, while Dean Rusk, and another official occupy the seat in front of them. Secret Service agents stand on the rear of the limousine. People standing at the road side applaud to welcome the King. A flag of Saudi Arabia. U.S. military honor guard. The limousine stops at Blair House, across from the White House, on Pennsylvania Avenue. President Johnson and the King of Saudi Arabia step from the car. An greets them and presents the King with a token gift. Photographers take pictures. The King speaks into a microphone, thanking the official for the gift, and also shakes hands with the President. A soldier salutes. President Johnson escorts King Faisal up the steps ot Blair House.
632 Combat Support Group Unit Mail Room, Officer's Club, NCO Club and Clothes Store at Bnh Thuy Air Base in Vietnam.
An orientation film for United States Air Force personnel assigned to Southeast Asia. USAF airmen at the Binh Thuy Air Base near the city of Can Tho in Vietnam. U.S. Air Force 632 Combat Support Group Unit Mail room on the Base. A sign board with the mail room timings. Airmen collect their mail at the counter and leave. Officers and airmen enter and leave the Officer's Club. A sign for the club near the door. Airmen emerge from the NCO Club, sign on a wall. A plaque amidst benches and plants. The plaque reads: 'Lest We Forget' in memory of AIC Millard W Lehman, 652 Air Police SQ, Arizona. An airman passes a huge sandbag bunker. 'Binh Thuy' written on lined barrels. Clothes lines outside barracks. An airman dries clothes on the line. Sandbags outside the barracks. An airman climbs stairs leading to the USAF Clothing Sales Store. A sign states the store's timings. A sign reads: 'R&R Office, Base Library, Tape Recordings, Personnel Services Office'. (Vietnam War period).
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