Exterior of an Irish Government Building in Dublin. Prime MInister Eamon de Valera addresses officials. Views of country side in Ireland. Irish ham and bacon and care and raising of pigs and cows on farms. Farmers plowing in fields, and peat is mined with large harvesting machines and cut into briquettes. Activities in beer brewing (Guiness wooden barrels seen lined up at a brewery) and auto industry with a Ford assembly line in Cork Ireland. New cars on the assembly line being assembled by Irish workers. A Dunlop rubber processing plant in Cork Ireland. Rubber boots being manufactured at the Dunlop plant. The Shannon hydroelectic scheme power project in Limerick region of Ireland; views of the power plant and the river Shannon from which it draws power. View of the hydroelectric dam. Men working atop a large electric transmission tower. Women examine an electric table top mixer for the kitchen. A woman using an electric iron on clothes, and a view of an electric waffle maker and toaster. Streets of Dublin busy with activity. Clocks, shirts, ties, and cutlery in shop windows of Dublin, along with blankets and other goods all made in Ireland. Physicians and nurses gather in a surgical theater of a hospital. Newborn baby being washed in a maternity ward. Public housing construction efforts shown transforming older thatched cottages into modern homes. Signs in ancient Gaelic are shown, recently restored as the national language of the independent Eire. Irish schoolboys enter a school building. Many have no shoes and enter the school house barefoot. A teacher instructs the school boys in the classroom.
Irish flag on an official Irish Government building. Irish Prime Minister Eamon de Valera working in office. Exterior of Fianna Fail-The Republican Party building in Ireland. Officials in a meeting, de Valera addressing. Pictures of important historic political leaders who struggled for independence of Ireland can be seen. Narrator discussing Ireland's decision to remain neutral in World War 2. A statue on the top of a building. Children filling water from a communal hand pump for a town. Views of country side, sheep grazing in Ireland
Cornelius McGillicuddy, better known as "Connie Mack," was manager and co-owner of the Philadelphia Athletics baseball team for 50 years. He is seen here at age 84, sitting alone in the dugout at Shibe Park, making motions as if he were repositioning his fielders during an actual baseball game. In other scenes, he poses in the stadium with his sons Earle (in uniform) and Roy (in civvies), and his grandson, Connie Mack III (not the future U.S. Senator) also in uniform. (Note: There were two Connie Mack III's -- one was Roy Mack's grandson and the other was Connie Mack, Jr's son, the future Senator.)
Student life in Frankfurt, West Germany after World War 2. Young men and women listen to a uniformed American soldier conducting class inside a classroom. A young woman asks the soldier a question. Various drawings are displayed on a wall behind students. Inside an elementary school classroom, a young German girl wearing braids stands up from her seat. Young girl reciting with her book in class. Young girl raises her hands inside classroom. A hand flipping through pages of a German book. College students follow a professor in a university corridor. German college students, some talking, waiting for class to start inside a lecture room.
Industrial factories along the river valley of the Rhine River. Shots of idle steel and munitions plants along the riverbank. Views of steel mills with no activity. Views of the British Occupation Zone in Western Germany.
Aerial view of factories in the Ruhr valley in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany (British Occupation Zone) after World War 2. Electrical power cables, installations and smokestacks can be seen. Idle industrial plants. Steel and metal works shows damage from bombing.