Owner of Walt Disney Studios Walt Elias Disney at hearings of House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) in the United States. Walt Disney Studios owner Walt Elias Disney answers upon being questioned about having any conversations with organizer Herbert Sorrell relating to communism and states that Mr. Sorrell mentioned about the funding of 1937 strikes against major studios. Walt Disney gives his personal opinion about infiltration of labor unions by Communists, and about the Communist Party, and says he does not believe it is a political party. He also expresses his views about the bills pending before the committee to outlaw Communist Party and further states that American labor unions should be kept clean and should not be affected by communism.
U.S. President Franklin D Roosevelt addresses the nation. Roosevelt seated at a desk in his office in the United States. He states that democracy has disappeared in many nations because of the unemployment, insecurity and government weakness and confusion. He further states that the democratic institutions can be preserved in the U.S.
First roundup trans-Atlantic flight to be attempted from the United States.. Pilot, Henry (Dick) Merill, Chief Test Pilot of Eastern Airlines and Co-Pilot, Harry Richman, millionaire singer, songwriter and part time pilot, prepare to depart on round-trip trans-Atlantic flight. They bid goodbye to friends and family. They board their Vultee V-1A named 'Lady Peace', start the engine, taxi out and takeoff. Crowd watches.
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower meets Brigadier General Maxwell D. Taylor and inspect the United States 101st Airborne Division in England during World War II. A staff car with the British and American flags arrives on the Welford airfield, Berkshire, England. General Dwight D Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill alight from the staff car after an attendant opens the car door. Prime Minister Churchill and General Eisenhower meets with military officers as they walk in the airfield. Prime Minister Churchill salutes and shake hands with Brigadier General Maxwell D. Taylor. A band plays while Prime Minister Churchill and General Eisenhower review the 101st Airborne Division troops with its Commander, Brigadier General Taylor. Two soldiers hold flags. Prime Minister Churchill, Generals Eisenhower and Taylor review the troops by walking amongst them. General Eisenhower uses binoculars to watch paratroopers jumping from C-47 planes during a mass demonstration. Hundreds of paratroopers with parachutes fall to the airfield. Prime Minister Churchill and General Eisenhower get in a car. Army vehicles driving away.
Segment of film about U.S. Information Agency (USIA) use of motion pictures abroad. A man threads film into a motion picture projector. Glimpses of audiences in several different countries as they watch movie showing on screen. A film introductory slate is shown reading:" U.S.I.S. United States Information Service, presents." Closeups of faces of two bearded men watching a film. Film slate reads: "United Nations Report on Prisoners of War." The film shows Chinese prisoners of war, marching to a United Nations POW camp during the Korean War. Views large tents erected in camp, with "PW" written on one tent. Another view shows a large sign laid out on the ground reading: "POW Camp-3." Chinese POWs march through entrance of a camp and are guided by American soldiers standing beside a military ambulance.
A biographical documentary shows the life of Dwight David Eisenhower who was the President of the United States from 1953 to 1961. Dwight David Eisenhower in a horse driven carriage salutes to people at a gathering outside the Royal Exchange (1 Royal Exchange, London EC3V 3LL, United Kingdom) in London, England. Eisenhower with Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Churchill addresses the gathering. The crowd cheers.
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