U.S. Air Force C-47 aircraft arrives in Hebei Province of China carrying Nurse Kathleen Hall of the New Zealand Anglican Church Mission in China during World War II. She and companions bring help and supplies for the Bethune International Peace Hospital.
Men at a club in Boston, Massachusetts. A man with a pipe in his mouth shoots pool. Men play cards. A man reads a newspaper named 'The Fishing News'. A man lights his pipe. Men smoke pipes and talk.
The Altai mountains in Central Asia (at convergence of Russia, China, Mongolia, and Kazakhstan). Natives of the region in their tents. A woman milks a cow and grinds grain with a stone. Interior of a native tent. Activity in a tent village. The nomadic people move with all their belongings, family and animals to a new region. Children on sheep as they move along with a group. Skeleton structure of tents abandoned by natives.
American professional football game between the NFL New York Giants and the Chicago Bears in Chicago at Soldier Field. The spectators in the stands watch the game and cheer. Temperature is a cold 8 degrees Fahrenheit. The game starts. The first quarter ends at 7-7. The second quarter starts. The Chicago Bears win the game by 14-10.
A hydrofoil underway in the Volga River in Russia. A new passenger craft hydrofoil is being tested. Engineers at the controls of the boat.
General Charles De Gaulle steps from a car and walks through crowd of reporters. (In the wake of political upheaval, De Gaulle was named Premier-designate by President René Coty on May 31 and confirmed Premier by the National Assembly on June 1.) He makes his way to a podium and speaks. According to narrator, he declares a "vacation" from politics in France, while he prepares a new Constitution. He leaves the podium and hall. View of numerous reporters and photographers in the hall. Enthusiastic French people outside the hall, wave as De Gaulle passes standing in an open car. The sidewalks are mobbed with spectators as his motorcade passes. Citizens hold banners, including some referring to the Algerian problems. Confetti is thrown from overlooking apartment buildings in Paris.
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