Taking down the tents and packing up a circus. Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey circus workers and local workers disassemble the tents and stages, load wagons and with help from elephants and bulldozers they pack up before heading to a new city. These scenes appear to be 1950s-196s. The circus train moving at speed. Following scenes appear to be early 1970s: Circus managers seated at a table planning a circus act. Scenes of the decorated performers in a real circus. Clowns performing. Circus managers viewing a potential new act involving trapeze,cycles, and acrobatic feats. Performers practicing without an audience.
American Forces withdrawing from Cambodia. View of an American Fire Support Base Myron near Hill 428, in Cambodia. U.S. 199th Light Infantry Brigade troops talk to local tribesmen through an interpreter. AH-1G helicopter fires rockets outside the camp. (Note: John W. Hart, who served with 3rd Platoon, D/5/12, 199th LIB, at Fire Base Myron in 1970, has identified the shirtless soldier with curly hair at second 41 in the clip, as Otto White, one of his unit's M-60 machine gunners.)
View of a low mountain in snow-covered landscape of Norway, during NATO exercise "Arctic Express" in 1970. A NATO soldier, wearing arctic clothing, is seen behind a light machine gun with tripod on its barrel. Another trooper stands on porch of a house, holding an automatic weapon. View of him from the ground. A red Coca cola sign on building behind him. An armored personnel carrier backing up under direction of a NATO soldier. Troops placing white camouflage on vehicles. A soldier moves a vehicle out of a snow revetment and installs a radio antenna. A silver wreath insignia enclosing what looks like "ER" is pinned to his hat. He looks up (probably at a passing aircraft) and then steps into the vehicle, which resembles a land rover with spare tire fastened to its hood.
Italian Alpini troops participating in NATO "Arctic Express" exercise during 1970, in Norway. Dressed in arctic gear, they stand next to an armored personnel carrier. A wooden frame building seen in background. One soldier scans the snow-covered terrain through binoculars. A camouflaged utility vehicle passes on a snow road. Scene shifts to several military vehicles covered with snow. A soldier stands nearby. A tall radio tower and some buildings are visible. sequences moves to views through wind screen of a vehicle moving along a snow-packed road. It passes vehicles parked at side of the road, including: two large canvas-covered trucks, a car, a front loader, a utility vehicle with a trailer,and many more vehicles and trailers.
Canadian troops participating in NATO exercise, "Arctic Express," in 1970, in Norway, set up a light machine gun in the snow. An officer points at a target area and briefs them. Other soldiers remove snow shoes from a truck, and don them. The machine gunners move their weapon and place it in the truck. Four Canadian soldiers, carrying small arms, proceed on snow shoes, along the side of a road, followed by several more.
Earthquake in Peru, June, 1970. View from aircraft flying low over a beach. A U.S. Air Force Military Airlift Command C-141 aircraft taxiing to park at an airfield, after landing. UH-1 helicopters being offloaded from the aircraft. A column of porters, carrying blue bags of relief supplies on their heads, proceed toward a helicopter. Helicopter taking off and dropping the supplies to people below. View of helicopter with its shadow below where a man is seen walking through a flooded field. Scene shifts to injured person being carried from helicopter on a stretcher. Scenes of destruction. Houses flattened and rubble in streets of Peruvian village.