French wine market workers take part in annual wine keg championship in Vincennes, France. Spectators in stands. The participants roll wine barrels on end around a racecourse. M Farge is the new champion after the barrel sprint.
Opening slate reads: "New Anti-Aircraft Record Achieved by Coast Defense Aces, Ft Monroe, VA." A Curtiss O-1B two place bi-wing airplane is seen in flight. Aerial view of the Fort Monroe, Virginia, waterfront. Gun emplacements are seen. Air- to-air view of the Army airplane in flight over Fort Monroe. But this time, a target can be seen towed behind the aircraft. View of U.S. Secretary of War, Patrick J. Hurley, looking skyward, in the company of three Army officers, including Major General John W. Gulick, chief of the Coast Artillery and commander of Fort Monroe, who is standing next to the Secretary, to his right. View of gunners in a battery of 6-inch anti-aircraft guns. Batteries firing and puffs of white smoke seen aloft. Tracer bullets seen all around a towed target. Soldiers looking through an artillery range finder. A towed target floating in the air with black clouds from exploding anti-aircraft rounds nearby. Gunners firing at high rates of speed.
A train arrives at a station in Changchun, Manchukuo. Japanese Ambassador Nobuyoshi Muto arrives to sign the treaty protocol between Japan and Manchukuo in Changchun (Hsingking). Ambassador Nobuyoshi Muto, Commander in Chief of the Kwantung Army, steps down from the train. A Japanese school children welcome the Ambassador. He proceeds in a Motorcade toward the palace where the signing will occur. Police march on the road. Car arrives at the Palace. Henry Puyi, Chief Executive of the new Manchukuo government, receives Ambassador Nobuyoshi Muto. Mikado's Generals and other high ranking officers pose for a photo.
Christopher "Christy" Mathewson, famous baseball pitcher for New York Giants and the Cincinnati Reds, who later managed the Cincinnati Reds. He voluntarily enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1918, as a Captain in the U.S. Army Chemical Service, during World War 1. This brief scene shows Matthewson in uniform, as a Captain in the U.S. Army.
Convoy of Japanese supply ships in the Southwest Pacific during World War 2. Mysteriously, two explode. One sinks and one is left burning. Narrator describes similar losses of Japanese cargo vessels and Japanese reports attributing the losses to new superior American aircraft. View of Japanese Military High Command buildings in Tokyo, Japan. An Imperial Japanese Navy Night Fighter (QHAFMFA6) seen taking off. Japanese admiral boards warship to plan Imperial Navy strategy and tactics. Attacking aircraft is shown as a U.S. Navy PBY Catalina Flying Boat. Several views of Catalina flying boats in flight, painted black for night flying (called "Black Cats"). Aerial view of islands with small harbors where a PBY can hide during daylight. Base personnel gather at a catalina base awaiting an overdue returning PBY. She appears and buzzes base to announce successful mission. The PBY then lands in nearby harbor, taxis toward shore and is met by sailors in boats who attach a tow line to winch the PBY ashore, tail first. Squadron Commander meets the plane as the crew disembarks. Commodore Thomas S. Combs, Commander Aircraft 7th Fleet, arrives by jeep with Group Commander, Captain Peck. Crew gives quick accounting of mission. Corpsmen take wounded combat cameraman from the PBY on a stretcher. Tow pulls the PBY to area of ramp for servicing and repairs. Maintenance personnel note crew report of problems and begin corrective actions. They count 8 bullet holes in starboard wing.They find hole in fuselage from shrapnel that wounded the cameraman, and repair it. They repair a gas tank leak and refuel the PBY. View of 525lb and 1000lb bombs in Squadron dump. Armorers assemble belts of 50cal machine gun ammunition.They rearm the PBY with bombs under one wing and a torpedo under the other, and machine gun ammunition. They remove two black cats (animals) from inside the airplane. PBY crew plays water polo with a coconut. View of officer's quarters. Pilots prepare for next mission and go to intelligence briefing
A helicopter lands on the lawn of White House as Vice President Hubert Humphrey returns from a 14 day Asian trip in Washington DC. He steps down and greeted on the White house lawn by President Lyndon B Johnson. President Johnson goes to New York where he receives an award from Freedom House. A bronze sculpture of President Johnson. President addresses the gathering.
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