Shows Soviet Army personnel of Air Force arming a Petlyakov Pe-2 bomber aircraft to attack a German position. Bomber armed and it takes off. View of Pilot in cockpit of airplane in flight. A track made in snow by a German tank. German positions bombed by the Pe-2 bomber. (World War II period).
Slate reads (in Russian) "Departure from Moscow by Mr. Harry Hopkins." Harry Hopkins, President Franklin Roosevelt's personal envoy, steps from a car and receives farewell expressions from a British Admiral and army officer, as he prepares to board an airplane departing Moscow, after negotiating American Lend Lease assistance to the Soviet Union, during World War 2. Soviet Chairman Mikhail Kalinin, arrives in a car and walks to the group saying goodby to Hopkins. Two Soviet officers and two men in civilian clothes stand on the airport ramp. American Ambassador, Lawrence Steinhardt and British Ambassador, Sir Stafford Cripps chat with an American Army Air Forces pilot. Group of diplomats and military officers gather wishing Hopkins well. Hopkins conversing with Chairman Kalinin. Hopkins making the rounds shaking hands with diplomats and a final vigorous one with Kalinin. He climbs aboard the waiting C-47 transport plane. It taxis out and is next seen flying overhead as those on the ground wave goodby.
Opening scene shows Soviet people walking around an open air display containing a German Junkers Ju 88 bomber and various pieces of wreckage. It also includes displays of German bombs of various types (presumably inert). Closeup of the aircraft cockpit cabin and remains of engines. A huge hole in the plane fuselage. Wired panels and wire bundles inside the aircraft. Closeup view downward, of people pressing forward to observe the displays. Soldiers guarding the wreckage. Camera pans across the aircraft, showing the swastika on its tail. View from close to the wreckage shows the people behind barriers. Trams pass in the background, on front of the Bolshoi Theater, with the quadriga atop it (statue of Apollo riding chariot pulled by 4 horses) covered by canvas during repairs from earlier German bombing. Closeup inside the display barriers shows the German bombs. A soldier picks up an incendiary bomb and walks to people in the crowd shaking the device and speaking about it. People gathered at one corner of the display where smaller pieces of the plane are piled up. Another closeup of the airplane tail with swastika on it. View of the Ju 88 from its tail to the front.
Young men stand in a formation in the USSR during World War 2. They are all wearing dark trowsers and white sweat shirts. At a signal from their leader, they all reach down and each picks up two simulated hand grenades from the ground. Closeup of the "grenades." The then run through woods and jump over a rustic fence. Some pair up and use their joined hands to boost others into the air and over the fence. They leap over a fallen tree and then jump down a steep hill and up another. They run into a river, wade rapidly across it, and climb up the opposite bank, where they flop down throwing their "grenades" as they do so. They get up again and continue running.
United States Air Force/NASA X-series of experimental aircraft flying in sky with x-15 rocket-powered aircraft attached to its wing. Shows researcher observing the aircraft, looking through binoculars and data monitoring devices on ground. Animated film showing X-15 aircraft ejected from experimental aircraft and transmitting data while in space. Also shows x-15 turning back towards earth.
A boat sails at sunset in Bang Saeng Beach (Chonburi), near Bangkok Thailand. Aerial view of Thailand. President and Mrs. Johnson greeted by Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej and Queen Sirikit at Bangkok. Military band playing music. Royal Thai Air Force performs aerobatics over the Ananta Samakhom Throne Hall (Royal Plaza Dusit, U-Thong Nai Road, Bangkok 10300, Thailand) to welcome President Johnson. Queen Sirikit and Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson getting in a car followed by President Johnson and King Bhumibol. Procession of cars passing on road. Large paintings of President Johnson and Mrs. Johnson are seen along the roadside. Views of the complex of the Grand Palace Bangkok (Na Phra Lan Road, Grand Palace, Phranakorn, Bangkok 10200) are shown. President and Mrs. Johnson with King Bhumibol and Queen Sirikit arriving for State Dinner. President and others in Chakri Throne Hall of Grand Palace. View of Thai classical dancers dancing at National Theatre (Thai National Theatre Rachinee Rd., (Prapinklao Bridge), Pranakorn, Bangkok 10200). President and wife sailing in royal motorboat along the Bang Luang canal, known as the “Venice of the East”. A Thai man paddles a boat in the canal. People giving gifts to Mrs. Johnson. President Johnson shaking hands with students from car window. Crowd of students holding American and Thai flags as the procession of cars passes by. President in a factory and receiving an honorary doctorate in political science at Chulalongkorn University. View of Thai ladies bowing President Johnson. View of Thai ladies bowing President Johnson.
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