Efforts for additional cultivation of food crops in London, England during World War II. Richmond Park being plowed up to grow potatoes during an effort to put an additional million and a half acres into cultivation. Group of children examining a tractor on a field. Farmer starts the tractor and the children run along beside as the tractor plows a field. Other civilians walking on the field and two dogs playing. View of tractor approaching low camera position and stopping just before the camera. View of new furrows plowed in land as seen from camera looking backward on moving tractor. The farm being plowed by the tractor at night. London suburb dwellers on their new garden allotments for production of their own vegetables. Families and children help planting gardens. (Similar to "Victory Garden" program in the United States.) The sites are in Brockwell, Dulwich, and Battersea Parks in the southeast suburbs of London.
Home defense in London, England during World War II. A British trooper trains civilian officials in firing gun. A civilian official in prone position fires a gun. British officials speak to the civilian official. British troops dig a trench. A British officer addresses his men and a civilian official meets the troops. British troops around artillery guns on a field during a drill. The civilian official examines the field. He talks to a trooper.
Officials checking passports of passengers boarding the SS Washington ocean liner at hamburg, Germany, preparing to depart for New York City. Reporters interviewing one of the passengers. The ship's passenger register displayed. An official receives passport from passenger,makes entries and checks on the register, stamps and signs the passport, and returns same to passenger. Views of passengers being processed and of others waiting their turn. ship's officers screening passengers as they enter the ship. They examine tickets and make cursory checks of eyes and lymph glands to screen out any seriously ill persons. (One man is directed aside, for further checking.)
Opening scene shows Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov and officers of his staff walking across a field in Russia, during World War 2. Soviet SU-100 (Samokhodnaya Ustanovka 100) tank destroyers armed with a 100 mm anti-tank guns, rush past the camera. Next, Marshal Zhukov is seen surrounded by senior Soviet officers as he speaks on a field telephone. A formation of Soviet warplanes flies over the advancing tank destroyers. Marshal Zhukov and staff observe field operations from an established trench covered by a camouflage netting. Closeup of Zhukov examining a map. Soviet armor moving under fire from German shells exploding near them. Glimpse of Zhukov and staff in another observation point. Soviet armor and infantry enduring explosions from German gunfire and moving forward in smoke. Animated map shows gradual Soviet advances beginning at the River Oder and pressing toward and beginning to encircle Berlin.
Soviet Officers collecting souvenirs after the fall of Berlin in World War 2. Flag of First Reich Imperial Germany and one of a large Swastika are seen in opening scene. A Soviet soldier unfolds a very large embroidered flag of Imperial Germany before a Soviet officer. A soldier hands a sword to Soviet Marshal Ivan Konev, who examines it. Next, three Soviet SU85 Tank Destroyers, each carrying more than a dozen Soviet soldiers and officers, are seen moving along a street in Berlin. Liberated French, Italian and Belgians parade. A liberated Frenchman carries the French tricolor flag while riding a bicycle. A Soviet soldier plays the accordion surrounded by comrades. More liberated marchers and more SU85 Tank Destroyers carrying soldiers. A soviet Colonel marching with some members of his army unit. Suddenly soldiers of his unit surround him and hoist him atop their shoulders. Soviet soldier accordionist plays those surrounding him sing and clap. One soldier dances. Two soldiers riding a tandem bicycle. Group of Soviet officers pose for a formal portrait by a photographer. Large group of Soviet soldiers and officers pose while some soldiers take photographs with personal cameras. Another groups posing in front of a building as an army photographer takes their picture. Graffiti on wall reads (in German) "Berlin remains German". More walls with the same message. Several messages in Russian inscribed on the pillars of buildings. Red Soviet flag waving in the breeze.
Hollywood Film Producer James Stuart Blackton examines a film reel in Hollywood. Hollywood Film Producer James Blackton holds a zoetrope and shows it to children in a lawn. Producer Blackton holding the zoetrope.
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