U.S. soldiers eat hot food for dinner and prepare for the night in Korea during the Korean War. Soldiers approach a tent on a hill. Sign reads 'Kitchen'. Prepared food is packed into Marmite cans to keep it hot. South Koreans carry these cans to the front lines. Men with the cans on their backs, climb up barb wire bordered pathways. They reach the front line and help unpack the food. Soldiers heat the food and serve it out in plates. White and African American soldiers in chow line. Mashed potato, fruit salad in plates. Soldiers fill mugs of coffee and juice. They sit and eat at dinner time. Hills with enemy positions. Soldiers sit nd wait for the night. A tank returns from no man's land at dusk. Soldiers prepare for the night. They raise roadblocks and barricades to seal off lines. Soldiers in position with their guns and artillery. A Turkish soldier patrols with his bayonet. Other UN soldiers including South Koreans ready with their rifles in trenches. Soldier smokes a cigarette. Soldiers run uphill and fire at night. Machine gun fire. Captain Carl Zimmerman talks about U.S. soldiers in various outposts the world over. He talks about the next episode of 'The Big Picture', a weekly U.S. Army television report.
Struggle for independence in America, and border control between Canada and United States. Portraits of Revolutionary officers including George Washington. British General Howe engaging Washington's troops around New York. Sir Guy Carlton sketch. Strategy to put British Troops under Carlton to launch an attack at American colonists forces toward the south from Quebec. The Americans led by Benedict Arnold put together a small fleet to combat the British. Carlton unable to advance south due to winter. Washington's army moving toward Pennsylvania. Depiction of attack at Trenton by Washington's men crossing the Delaware to engage in the surprise battle. With commentary and narration by J. Frank Willis.
Depicts the work of Kenneth G. Killinger as a mountain missionary of the Lutheran Church in Smyth County and other towns of rural southern appalachia. Man with a primitive moonshine operation at his liquor still in the rural southern appalachian mountains. Shack of logs with barrel lying on ground next to him. Killinger meeting the man. The man being baptized and then reading from a book in a mission church. Portrays travels of Killinger recruiting new Christians. Killinger with lumbermen beside a stand of felled timber. Killinger baptizing a young girl, then driving on mountain dirt roads in a black car. Views of two churches from the exterior, and Killinger preaching in one of them.
Depicts services of the mission church in the southern appalachians led by Lutheran missionary Kenneth G. Killinger. Map depicting growth of churches in southern Virginia and northern Tennessee and North Carolina, also the Konnarock Training School, and the Iron Mountain Boys' School. View of Killinger driving on mountain roads, into a more rural area, crossing a primitive footbridge and visiting a sick girl in a rural mountain home of Smyth County. He offers to take her to his health clinic since no doctors are local. He carries the girl out to the 1930s sedan that is waiting. View of the girl being carried into the clinic, (possibly located in Smyth County on the Killinger farm in the Mill Stone area, north of Attaway. Possibly the nurse standing by is Ms. M.L. Crosby). The girl smiling in bed in the clinic. Image of a $100 bank check drawn on the First National Bank of Zanesville Ohio. It is made out to the Killinger Mountain Clinic Fund and signed by The Luther League Synod of Ohio.
Bombed out Soviet city seen in snow during World War 2. Map depicting U.S. and British forces landing and advancing in North Africa, and far North, the Soviet Army launching counteroffensive to push back the German Army advances in the Soviet Union. Animated map depicting Soviet forces pushing back on German forces and recapturing Schlusselburg, breaking the Axis ring around Leningrad. Map showing Russian forces bypassing German forces at Rzhev and recapturing Velikie Luki. Another Soviet advance was in the Voronezh area, pushing back German forces there and back over the Don River. Map shows Germans falling back from Grozny. Fresh reserve Soviet cavalry soldiers arriving on horseback from Siberia, riding horses on snow covered terrain. Views of reserve Soviet tanks and soldiers on foot arriving to assist at Stalingrad. Closeup views of reserve Soviet soldiers entering destroyed city of Stalingrad. Soviet Russian military officers Marshal Voronoff, Col. General Kosakoff, Lt. General Rakossovskvy, meeting to plan Operation Uranus strategy. Map depicts the result of their plans as two simultaneous attacks were launched; one encircling from the north of Stalingrad, counterclockwise, and the other from the South of Stalingrad, to perform a larger encircling around the encircled German forces. Footage (reenactment) shows Soviet soldiers from the north and south groups meeting on a snow covered field (in Kalach) as they complete the operation encircling the Germans in November 1942. The Soviet soldiers embrace and celebrate. Scenes of Soviet civilians celebrating Christmas in 1942. Civilians choosing a evergreen tree to serve as a Christmas tree. Soviet civilians riding in a truck on snow covered road. A Soviet child carrying a Christmas tree over his shoulder. Soviet children at an indoor Christmas celebration with dancing around a giant Christmas tree, an indoor slide, and a carousel. A small dog in a costume dances and twirls on its hind legs entertaining a group of smiling Russian children. Two Russian boys playing a game where each has to guess which hand is holding an item. The losing boy receives a finger flick against his nose by the winner. Carousel filled with children rotates around the Christmas tree. Scenes in Soviet ballistic and munitions factory as war production workers, both men and women, manufacture shells for the war effort. Young workers exchange greetings of Happy New Year as they work past midnight. Soviet soldier viewing war front through binoculars. Closeup view of wrist watch showing 12 o'clock midnight. A fellow Soviet soldier yells a new year greeting, followed by "Fire" as Soviet artillery open fire against German positions during night battle. Daytime views of snow covered battlefield show Soviet soldiers operating a long line of artillery as they blast German positions.
Theodore Cuyler Streibert , Director of the U.S. Information Agency, speaks on the purposes of the Agency (USIS). The Director seated at a table. He states that there is much misunderstanding about the United States, throughout the world, and Communist entities wish to take advantage of this to spread misinformation about the U.S. As the leading world power for peace, he says the U.S. must tell the world the truth about America. This is the mission of the USIA. A map portrays Soviet dominated areas within the so-called "iron curtain,"encompassing 800 million people. Another map illustrates targets of Communist propaganda employed to facilitate North Korea's aggression against South Korea. A graph illustrates propaganda spending by the Soviet Union and Communist China, primarily to spread misinformation about America. Segments of a Soviet propaganda film about the U.S. are shown. It begins with a map of the U.S. and then shows the Statue of Liberty. Camera pans over Manhattan, showing skyscrapers. A narrator disparages American commercialism, materialism and sensationalism. A lion is seen sitting in a convertible car, looking over a young woman's head. Next are scenes of an American beauty contest, and of women performing precision water skiing. Then an airplane is seen crashing on landing and a car is seen burning. View from trolley car moving along Broadway, from Times Square, in Manhattan, New York City, at night. A follies-style Broadway show. Show girls in bathing suits, walking past the camera. Show girls performing on stage. Another nighttime view of Times Square. Dogs being manicured by groomers. Outdoor soup kitchen scene from the Great Depression in the 1930s with unemployed men receiving food. Hobos or homeless men at a railroad siding. Milk and grain being spilled from containers during a labor and pricing dispute. Scenes of slum area tenement houses with wash drying on lines strung between the buildings. Men playing bocce ball in the yard of an apartment house. Camera pans up the Empire State Building from street level view. African American drummer with other band musicians performing in a civilian band, and scenes of African American musicians in a U.S. Army band. Poor African Americans in the South, at home and doing wash outdoors. Mounted police maintaining order in scenes of a fire and public protest or labor strife (circa 1935) interposed with views of the Statue of Liberty. A Soviet propaganda poster about the Korean War, shows an American soldier walking away from a dead Korean woman whose small child clings to her. Fires burn and a burning airplane falls from the sky in the background. A propaganda cartoon shows "warmongers of the west" being counterbalanced by a Soviet fist on a pair of scales.