A film about the life of people in Afghanistan. Children play at a school. Exteriors of the University of Kabul. Students milling about in the foreground. American and Afghan professors at work. Students in the university campus. Views of students playing football (Soccer), basketball, boxing, throwing the shot put, and wrestling.
The time is at end of World War 2. Slate describes this film as the Orphanage at Dachau. A bucolic scene shows horse-drawn wagon moving along country road, with twin spires of a church, visible in the background. Camera zooms in on church spires and roof, and then to a sign near the door reading,"DP Childrens Center, UNRRA, Team 182." (DP means Displaced Persons, UNRRA stands for United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.) At the entrance, itself, a sign reads:"Ausländer Kinderstation, UNRRA, Ausschuss 182 (Foreign children's ward, UNRRA, committee 182). Children run down the stairs of the building and are seen, next, outdoors in a grassy churchyard of the camp, where they form a circle, hold hands, and dance and sing. Scene shifts to indoors in a high-ceilinged room filled with daylight from several large windows where the children sit for a nourishing mid-day meal. Men in military-like uniforms pass trays of food to children standing in line. A similarly-dressed woman helps several very small children down the stairs. A line of babies sit at a long table and are fed by a Nun in habit. Closeups of the babies trying to feed themselves. Next scene shows a Nun washing the babies, in a nursery, with cribs in the background. View of many pre-school age babies seated on the floor playing together with toys. Outside, in the grounds, school age boys play football (soccer), while schoolmates watch from the sidelines and cheer.
Men and women playing golf on various Park Department courses in Washington DC area, including one scene of golfers at Hains Point, with a sailboat in the background, underway in the Washington Channel. Local organized teams playing baseball with the White House in the background and spectators watching the game. Local teams playing football in a park. A rack full of fishing rods at the edge of a pond and anglers competing as they try to cast into floating rings on the pond. Several fountains spray water and the Washington Monument can be seen in background. Children playing on swings and slides and families picnicking in a park. The fountain in lower Senate Park, between the Capitol and Union Station. View with Union Station in the background and view with the Capitol in background.
European Cup final at Frankenstadion in Nuremberg, Germany. The soccer (football) match between Bayern Munich of West Germany and Glasgow Rangers of Scotland begins. Large number of spectators cheer the teams. Franz Roth scores a goal. West German wins the European Cup.
A football match between Cornell University and the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The match in progress. A cheering crowd in the stands. Cornell University beats the University of Pennsylvania with a score of 26-0.
Football match between the Navy and Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. A large crowd seated in the grandstand. The match in progress. People cheering and applauding. Navy wins the match.
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