Film opens showing forward port section of the British Battleship HMS Prince of Wales in Placentia Bay, Argentia, Newfoundland. Next, Winston Churchill is seen greeting President Franklin D. Roosevelt as he arrives to meet with him during their Atlantic Conference in 1941. The President is assisted by his son, Army Captain James Roosevelt. The entire ship's company is seen assembled on deck for a church service. Closeup of President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and their principal advisors. all singing "Onward Christian Soldiers" during the service. Scene shifts to December 7, 1941, showing the American battleship USS Arizona and other battleships being bombed by Japanese aircraft. View shifts to the White House in Washington, DC. on July 19, 1940, President Roosevelt is broadcasting his speech to the Democratic National Convention, accepting nomination for an unprescedented 4th term as President. Views of ordinary Americans in various settings. Legislators congratulating the new Vice President, Harry S. Truman, after inauguration in January 1941. Truman seated and surrounded by staff and well-wishers. View of Truman, his wife, Bess and daughter Margaret, walking across the lawn at their home in Independence, Missouri. View of the three of them, inside their home, opening and sharing congratulatory messages received by the new Vice President. Immediately following FDR's death, now, President Truman is seen assuring the public that he will continue the course set by his predecessor. Glimpses of President Roosevelt seated in front of the White House and at his desk. In Yalta for the Big Three Conference, Roosevelt rides in a jeep as Prime Minister Churchill walks beside. Closeup of Roosevelt and Churchill. Participants gathering for the Yalta conference. Closeup of Roosevelt and Stalin. Churchill arriving and taking his seat. Closeup of the Big Three, Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin. (World War II period).
Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini is seen in a room of his house, Wave Hill, in the Hudson Hill section of Riverdale in the Bronx, New York City. Toscanini is handed a record by teenage boy (possibly his grandson) and Toscanini plays the record on a console phonograph player. He walks up and down in the room as he listens to the music. Narrator discusses Toscanini's rejection of fascism. and then names various other Italians living in the U.S. who similarly reject fascism: Next shot shows Italian historian Gaetano Salvemini delivering a lecture to a class at Harvard University. Italian writer Giuseppe Antonio Borgese leads a small workshop class at the University of Chicago. Italian American press publishers of newspaper Il Nuovo Mondo (Giuseppe Lupus, Aurelio Natoli, and Carlo Emanuele Prato) are seen gathered at a desk in New York City. An Italian editor, Colonel Randolfo Pacciardi, works at a newspaper establishment. An Italian priest and patriot, Don Luigi Sturzo, reads a book. Another close-up view of Arturo Toscanini.
Opening scene shows women gathering for a bridge club party. They each drive to the party in their own cars and park in front of the house. While waiting for the last club member to arrive, they relax on the front porch of the hostess's home. They wear the fashions of the period, including Cloche hats, and some like flappers. The last woman to arrive drives a new Ford sedan, which attracts immediate attention from all the other women, who leave the porch and admire her car. Scene shifts to the next gathering of the bridge club, when all the womens' cars parked in front of the house, are new Fords.
In a laboratory, a scientist places a rat in a small cage containing another rat. The latter attacks the new rat, after it felt threatened by its unfamiliar presence. The attack stops and the rat sniffs the newcomer. The new rat walks away. The rat attacks the newcomer again.
Dramatization. Community leaders meet with a police chief. A police chief asks for advice regarding new Cuban immigrants not approaching police with problems. A Jewish rabbi raises his teacup to answer after glancing at the concentration camp serial number tattoo on his wrist. As a Holocaust survivor, he suggests, are there “any Spanish-speaking policemen in your precinct?”. Police chief answers the rabbi and takes notes. Policeman hugs his son before leaving for work. Wife and two children say goodbye to him as he gets into his car in a suburban neighborhood. Policeman greets his neighbor mowing the grass lawn next door. Policeman enters his car to drive away. Metropolitan police walking in front of precinct building on L Street NW Washington D.C. near the intersection of L and Pennsylvania. Several police on motor scooters or mopeds drive out of precinct parking lot. Newspaper shows local news such as “Youth receives Medal for saving Policeman’s life”. Close up of police belt with walkie talkie and wooden baton. Metropolitan police officers getting into police car and driving away. Dramatized newspaper headline reporting saving of policeman's life by African American youth.
Holland type submarine of the Plunger class tied up at the Electric Boat Company at New Suffolk, Long Island , New York circa 1902. Civilian technicians standing on deck of the boat.. They load a torpedo aboard, using a block and tackle.. It goes down into the hull of the submarine. The Holland type submarine running at periscope, fires the torpedo. The torpedo runs just below the surface, leaving a visible wake. The submarine rises and runs along a conning tower depth. It dives again and rises again.
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