Liberated American prisoners of war in the Philippines during World War II. Patients lying on hospital beds. A nurse gives medicines to the patients. A man interviews two of the prisoners of war from the Cabanatuan camp. One of the soldiers talks about the Bataan Death March. He states that they marched for three days and three nights. Food and water was not given to them. They were transported to prison camps in boxcars and some of the prisoners died and some were killed. Sergeant Donald Smith also talks about the conditions in the prison camps and treatment received from the Japanese.
Liberated American prisoners of war in the Philippines during World War II. A liberated Cabanatuan prisoner of war lying on a hospital bed. A man interviews him. He talks about the conditions in Japanese prison camps. He states that the prisoners were made to work hard without any food or water.
A hunger march by the communist activists in Washington DC. People gather on a street. Hunger march truck trains or convoys drive past on the street. Maryland State troopers on motorbikes drive past along with the vehicles. Posters and placards on the vehicles. A poster on a truck reads: 'Winter Relief Unemployment Insurance'. They are stopped by policemen. An officer with a tear gas gun on the street. People watch the vehicles. The policemen stand at attention on the street blocking the passage of the activists.
Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie arrives in Yugoslavia. An airplane parked at an air base. Emperor Selassie comes out of the airplane. Officials gather at the airport to greet him. An official shakes hands with him. Selassie reviews troops. He sits in a Rolls-Royce Phantom IV Hooper-bodied State Landaulette car. His motorcade passes on the streets and he stands in the moving car and waves to people gathered along the sides of the street. Buildings along the sides of the street.
Opening slate states: "Golden Rivet Marks Dedication of Huge Golden Gate Span" View of the completed Golden Gate Bridge from the San Francisco side. A crowd of people is assembled for the bridge dedication on May 4, 1937. Joseph Strauss, Chief Engineer of the Golden Gate Bridge holds the "Golden Rivet,"seen in closeup. Closeup of a bridge worker in a metal hard hat. Next he is seen holding up the rivet in a protective glove as he stands next to Mr. Strauss. Glimpse of worker's cage moving along a bridge cable overhead. Closeup of two riveters setting the final rivet as spectators crowd close around them. Long view from San Francisco hills of the bridge.
Byrd arctic expedition to fly an airplane over the North Pole, in 1926. Animated map illustrates the planned Northward course of Lieutenant Commander Richard Byrd and pilot Floyd Bennett, headed to the North Pole, in their Fokker tri-motor airplane. The starting point is Kings Bay, Spitsbergen, Norway, where they took off on May 9, 1926. A slate states that, "Byrd circles the Pole, checking observations and photographing." Scene shifts to images being recorded by Byrd from inside their Fokker F-VII Tri-motor airplane, the "Josephine Ford." One shows the big "F" in the name "Fokker" on underside of the right wing. From there, the camera pans back over the frozen wasteland below, with parts of the aircraft also seen. Another shot shows the aircraft tail (empennage) with mountains in background amidst snow-filled valleys while the airplane is in a gentle right-hand turn. Underside of engine is seen with arctic scenery, passing below.
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