Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India dies in New Delhi, India. Flashback scene from 1947 as thousands of people assemble and listen to Nehru speak from the Red Fort as India achieves Independence. View of Nehru talking with U.S. President John F Kennedy while walking in a garden in the early 1960s. Indian national flag lowered to mourn for his death. A large crowd gathered to witness his funeral according to Hindu rituals. A woman joins hands towards the dead body of Nehru and weeps.
A film titled 'The war ends in Europe' shows American people celebrating the end of World War II in Europe following surrender by Germany. A crowd in New York Times Square celebrates Victory in Europe Day (V-E Day). People pray in a church. U.S. President Harry S Truman announces the German surrender.
An advertisement for Ford's international weekly newspaper Dearborn Independent. Information about a page by Henry Ford, the founder of Ford Motor Company. Information about international news and editorials in the newspaper.
Views of the new (1951) GE jet engine assembly plant at Lockland Ohio. Animated description and U.S. map showing numerous suppliers across the country that contribute parts for the jet engines assembled at the GE Lockland plant.Views inside the plant, with engines being assembled. GE staff members, including chief engineer, Donald F. Warner, are seen in the plant. Various U.S. jet warplanes taking off, including: Hughes XF-91; North American F-86D Sabrejet ; Martin XB-51; North American B-45 Tornado; Boeing B-47 Stratojet bomber; and Convair B-36.
Cars fill the large, open surface parking lot at the Stanford Shopping Center in Palo Alto, California, a new suburban shopping mall. People in front of the I. Magnin store at the shopping mall. Family in a convertible car arrives and stops in front of the mall. A man with two children looks at department store window where a mannequin displays clothes. Women in front of a suburban shopping center. Shoes and purses displayed in a shop window. Shop signs for smaller stores in an outdoor pedestrian mall layout. A woman sits on a bench at the mall. Another woman walks up to her. People walk in front of stores at the postwar, modern suburban shopping mall. Store signs seen in the clip include I. Magnin, Blum's, Haffner's Clothes, The Emporium, Donnelley’s Hardware Store, Fowler's Barber Shop, Irving Lundborg Company, Joseph Magnin (JM).
View of the overhead crossing of the Pennsylvania and Jersey Central railroads at Elizabeth, New Jersey. The Philadelphia Express on the Jersey Central passes underneath at full speed, just before a train passes overhead on the Pennsylvania crossing. (Filmed by Edison Company, 1897)
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