Italian officer stands next to open door of UH-1D helicopter, equipped with skis, that just landed in snow, carrying Italian Major General Alberto Li Gobbi. He is commander of one of the fictional forces engaged in NATO "Arctic Express" exercise war games in Norway. The General consults with members of his staff. He wears insignia of Alpini paratroops on his maroon beret. General Gobbi inspects ski troops and discusses their planned deployment. He speaks with ski troopers and examines red coverings they have fastened to the bottom of their skis. General Gobbi reviews maps on the hood of a vehicle. He then returns to the U.S. Army UH-1D helicopter that brought him to the site. It cranks up to depart.
Camera pans up snow-covered terrain in Norway during NATO "Artic Express" war games. An Italian Alpini ski trooper in a snow foxhole, mans a light machine gun. Several others are seen with their automatic weapons. Some white pup tents are set up behind them. Two troopers move ammunition from a protected position and then settle themselves in it. Camera follows a trooper up a snow road toward a checkpoint where a vehicle pauses by another armed trooper. The vehicle, an jeep carrying Italian troops, stops and obtains instructions. It drives away. A trooper sits at the back of the jeep guarding its rear.
Film begins showing silhouettes of some U.S. soldiers sitting in shade under wing of a C-130 transport aircraft, parked with engines running, on an airport at Naga City, the Philippines. A brightly colored commercial aircraft is seen parked in the background. Next, two red cars are seen with people milling about them. Then the military C-130 is seen isolated on the ramp, with engines still running. Local Filipinos are being organized and pose for cameramen. Closeup of a group of Filipino children posing. Closeups of many children. Glimpse of a C-130 crew member. Filipino men stand on the lowered rear door of the C-130, to which an orange trucks has been backed into the aircraft. They load boxes from the aircraft into the truck. A number of Filipinos gather around a C-130 crew member. Some Filipino men jump on the open rear door of the C-130 as another truck backs into it. The men begin loading sacks of grain into the truck, as a supervisor checks off the items on a bill of laden. Closeup of "Naga City" stenciled on bumper of truck. Long shot of the C-130 and several orange trucks, as well as other vehicles on the airfield ramp. Men jump out of the C-130 into an orange truck behind it, where they catch a few last food items tossed to them by two men still in the aircraft. (Note: the 463rd Airlift Wing was based at Clark Air Force Base, Philippines.)
The work of African American civil rights leaders in the United States. Mayor Carl Burton Stokes, political leader in Cleveland, along with other officials at a formal gathering where former General Benjamin O. Davis Jr. takes oath of service as Public Safety Director and assumes duties in Cleveland. A board in the background reads 'City Of Cleveland'. Black and white police officers take oath of service. Carl Burton Stokes speaks to the people of Cleveland Ohio on snowy ground about a new hospital or hospital addition, and then sits in a moving bulldozer with a nurse and the machine operator.
An awareness film about uterine cancer by American Cancer Society, United States. Film titled 'For a Wonderful life'. Enactment shows American Hollywood actress Lucille Ball and her daughter Lucie Arnaz talk about Uterine Cancer and -pap test. They talk about pap test in detail like it is painless, its availability, use and procedure of test. Boys of young age not having any threats of uterine cancer. Pre adolescent girls, Pre menopause stage women and women of post menopause stage having threat of Uterine cancer participating at a graduation ceremony. Women of different races, age and immune system at the ceremony. A woman in a garden talks about her experience about Pap test she discusses about periods and statistics of female deaths because of this cancer. She speaks about the importance of pap test. A mother and daughter walk along discussing about uterine test. Daughter insists her mother to get her pap test done. Mother argues with the daughter. But daughter makes her understand its importance and simplicity. She also tells her grand mother to get it done. Mother at last agrees for the test. Two friends visit a zoo with their children. They talk about uterine cancer and pap test. A friend explains the procedure to another friend. Animated diagram shows the procedure of test. Image of a woman, location of vagina, cervix, fallopian tube and uterus shown in a diagram. Animated forceps collect cells from the uterus. She tells the name of inventor of pap test 'Papanicolaou'. Friend asks whether doctors take out all the organs during a surgery. Other friend tells it is not true. She tells the percentage of positive results of test. Children come to them as they ask to visit a bear at the zoo. Woman permits them. Children run. Women joins them. Elderly woman plays with children. Girls run on a beach and play tennis. A girl rides a bicycle.
A B-52, modified as a mother ship, is seen in flight, with an X-24 lifting body aircraft suspended beneath it. (A slot was cut in the right wing which was fitted with a special pylon for carrying research aircraft.) No significant movements are seen, as the B-52 cruises smoothly at altitude for much of the beginning of the film. Commencing at TC: 01:26, Rear paddle-style flight controls are moved and and adjusted on the X-24. At TC: 04:53, the X-24 emits smoke and again, at TC: 05:27. At TC :05:36, the engine of the X-24 is running and the lifting body aircraft drops vertically away from the B-52, which then continues its cruise at altitude. (Note: the film is reversed so the right wing appears as the left one.)