Traffic jam on Los Angeles highway . Sunbathers at one of many beaches in Los Angeles area. People exercise for physical fitness and body building at Venice Beach ("Muscle Beach"). Several men and women perform acrobatic feats and a man (actor and body-builder Steve Reeves) lifts weights as crowd gathers to watch. Volleyball game at beach. People enjoy boating. Palm trees, roads and view of city.
Animated physical map of Japan showing major cities of the country. Streetcar moving in front of the Asahi Shimbun building in Tokyo, Japan. Art deco buildings in Tokyo. St. Luke's International University (10-1 Akashicho, Chuo City, Tokyo 104-0044, Japan) in Chuo, Tokyo. People shopping at a department store in Ginza district. People stand outside a kabuki theater. Pedestrians and neon lights at Ginza. A train leaves a subway. View of a subway tunnel. A policeman directing traffic. Pedestrians crowd a street. Women wearing kimono cross a bridge and walk towards a lake with Torii gate.
A Japanese militaristic propaganda film on the material and spiritual strength of Japan. Narration by General of the Imperial Japanese Army Baron Sadao Araki. Opening scene shows illustration of Japanese Emperor Jimmu, with sword and quiver of arrows slung from his waist. He holds a long bow. Next is a stack of history books, with pages being turned on the top one. Dramatization of combat between forces of the Tokugawa Shogunate and those supporting restoration of the Emperor to power, in 1868. A recruitment poster showing two Japanese soldiers. Recruits taking physical exams and one flexing his muscles. A parade of soldiers carrying the Japanese Rising Sun flag. Japanese sailors among spectators on a sidewalk. Recruits gathering in a field. Soldiers in uniform in a formation. Mounted Japanese officers riding in a column along a path. Some wear white arm bands, and Two carry Japanese flags. Emperor Hirohito is seen riding a white horse, in the midst of the column. He pauses and exchanges salutes with an officer with some troops in formation at the side of the path. The officer points to troops assembled in two directions. The Emperor continues on his way, followed by his entourage. Next, a large gathering of people is seen at a courtyard near the Emperial Palace in Tokyo. They Wave patriotic banners and Japanese flags, and give cheers in unison. A boy scout drum and bugle corps plays and marches. Scene shifts to Japanese soldiers marching on a large open field. A large group of them carry massed Japanese Rising Sun flags. They are reviewed by officers on horseback.
Events in 2nd Sino-Japanese War covering late 1930's through 1943 in World War 2 Scene opens with two Chinese army buglers sounding a call. Next, a line of recruits is seen marching on a field. Chinese officers sit at a table with civilian officials. A Huge crowd of army volunteers are seated, each holding a small white flag. Two more buglers sounding a call. Crowd of recruits move through a gate. Northern Chinese soldiers in fur hats march. Recruits are shown from the East and West of China. Recruits in formation. Bugler sounding a call. Chinese cavalrymen joining the army. More scenes of Chinese people joining together to fight the Japanese. Recruits engaged in close order drill and physical training. Uniformed soldiers in helmets, performing Calisthenics with rifles. Platoons of Chinese soldiers practicing marching and tactical maneuvers. Chinese youth training as first aid workers, carrying stretchers and learning first aid techniques. Chinese women in uniform marching with rifles. A Chinese girl kneels down behind a Maxim machine gun, as an officer instructs and other girls sit around in a group. Glimpse of girls training with rifles on an outdoor firing range. Claire Lee Chennault and his American "Flying Tigers" pilots and P-40 airplanes at an airfield. The American flag flying from a flagpole behind them. Pilots scrambling to their aircraft. Chenneult, now a U.S.A.A.F Major General, commander of 14th Air Force in China, in seen congratulating Chinese army aviators. He is accompanied by a Chinese Air Force General. Behind them is parked a B-24 Liberator bomber of the 308th Bombardment Group. A Chinese Nationalist P-40 with tiger teeth logo on air intake, starts its engine and taxis out for takeoff. View from cockpit of a P-40 pursuing and shooting down a Japanese Nakajima Ki-27 aircraft. Chinese soldiers in precision drills at a garrison.
Boxers Joe Louis and Arturo Godoy compete in a boxing match on June 20, 1940 in Yankee Stadium, Bronx, New York City. Louis knocks out Godoy in 8th round. Ground Infantry (GI) quiz ask a question about boxers and the answer is Coast Guard Commander Jack Dempsey. Views of Jack Dempsey while in the Coast Guard, demonstrating physical prowess. Multiple scenes from boxing match of Jack Dempsey versus Luis Ángel Firpo on September 14, 1923, at the Polo Grounds in New York City. Multiple knock-downs of the boxers are shown, including one where Firpo knocks Dempsey completely out of the ring. GI quiz question on tanks. Picture of Sherman tanks knocking down trees. Picture of Leonardo Da Vinci. View of the Mona Lisa painting. Animations of various concept designs credited to Da Vinci including tanks, aircraft, parachutes, and submarines. GI quiz question on rockets. View of battery of rockets being fired from ground positions in World War 2. Aerial view of U.S. Army aircraft firing rockets at target. View of German V-1 flying bomb (early cruise missile) in flight toward a target. Animation showing future use of a rocket launched across the globe and reaching New York City (with artist's view of Statue of Liberty in foreground) as narrator says, "Scientists are convinced that the next war, if there is one, will be fought with giant remote-controlled atomic rocket bombs, capable of traveling thousands of miles in a few minutes, to completely destroy any target, anywhere, anytime."
Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida, United States. A man drives his Ford Mustang convertible car across a bridge over a river and reaches the entrance gate of the air station which is headquarters for the Naval Air Training Command. Guard at entrance gate shows the way. Four aircraft of the Navy Blue Angels precision flying team are shown performing aerial maneuvers.. Man views the USS Lexington (CV-16) naval aircraft carrier at dock. Several recent college graduates, all participants in the Navy Aviation Officer Candidate program (AOC) check-in to start the program and greet each other. Officer teaches Principles of leadership in class using an overhead projector. Naval aviation students march and exercise under supervision. They play football. They perform physical exercise drills. A participant struggles with situps. Close-up of the face of a commanding officer drill instructor pushing him along. Naval band plays music. Personnel march in uniform in graduation ceremony after the 11 week program. Officer presents graduation degree one by one to them. Four U.S. Navy North American T-28 Trojan aircraft fly over the field in formation. African American commissioned officer and his wife walk up to their apartment door, off-base, carrying grocery bags. Other graduates carry luggage to Bachelor Officers Quarters (BOQ) and arrange photographs of women on a table and talk. Low aerial view approaching flight deck of aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea (CV-43). Commissioned officers on board the carrier sit at dinner table and talk.
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