The Inter American Conference in Mexico. Officials and dignitaries seated around a table during the conference. Mexico Foreign Affairs minister Ezequiel Padilla Penaloza sign the pact. A dignitary from Brazil signs the pact. Representative of Cuba and Peru sign the pact. U.S. Secretary of State Edward Stettinius, Jr. signs the Chapultepec Pact. A finger points out at the signs on the pact. Edward shakes hands with a dignitaries after signing the pact.
Film opens showing the unsual sight of two United Airlines commercial DC-3 aircraft flying in formation as they approach Charleston Naval Base, South Carolina. View inside one of the airplanes shows high-ranking naval officers in mufti (civilian clothes) from various South American countries seated inside. Flags of their respective nations are displayed above their seats. Seen are flags of Venezuela; Chile; Mexico; Cuba; and others. Closeup of the the representative of Venezuela as he is joined by another officer and they converse. Closeup of others conversing. View out a passenger compartment window in the aircraft, showing the second DC-3 flying nearby. Scene shifts to the cockpit, where the copilot is seen at his position. View from the ground of one DC-3 landing and taxiing in, followed by the second plane. The passengers seen leaving one of the aircraft. They line up on the ramp, and are greeted individually by U.S. Navy Rear Admiral William H. Allen, Commander of the Sixth Naval District. A U.S. Navy Captain also greets them and is seen saluting one of them. The entire group poses in front of one of the airplanes. Next, sailors at the Naval Base are seen marching on the parade grounds. Standing to the side, in uniform, are the visiting Naval officers from the Americas. Closeup of them shows Admiral Allen in the front row with an admiral from Brazil to his left.
A stylist grooms a woman, wearing fashionable go-go boots and polka-dotted micro mini dress. An British women's rights and feminist organization, marching on the street holding signs and placards with messages like “Equal Pay NOW!” and “Free Contraception” during the first women's liberation march. The crowned Miss World 1966, Reita Faria, smiles. Women wrestlers. A female wrestler throws her opponent, a black woman, on the wrestling ring floor. A mass wedding inside a stadium in Japan. Miss World 1966, Reita Faria, smiles with Miss World 1966 runner-up contestants (Miss Brazil- Marlucci Rocha, Miss Greece- Efi Fontini Plumbi, Miss Yugoslavia- Nikica Marinovic, Miss Italy-Gigliola Carbonara). Two policewomen, patrolling the street together, salute at the camera. Opening sequence of “Echo Newsreel” featuring a scene of various topics, such as the Big Ben Tower.
Two airplanes taxi and take off. U-2 taxies to runway and take off. Airmen removing Pogo wheels from wing tip of U-2 then plane takes off at Laughlin Air Force Base in Texas, United States.
1946 Film about military and civilian applications of radar and electronics. View of the LaGuardia Airport Administration Building (passenger terminal) in New York, with control tower and various antennas on its roof. A TWA Constellation and DC-3 airplane on the airport ramp, as another aircraft is on the final approach to land. Commercial cargo vessels in New York harbor (Statue of Liberty barely seen in the misty background). A passenger railroad train speeding along the tracks. Radar returns shown on a plan position radar scope, tracking weather returns. Tropical storm hitting a seaside area. Scientists and technicians at work in a laboratory filled with electronic equipment. View of buildings at U.S. Army Signal Corps' Camp Evans, New Jersey. Sign above one entrance reads: "Evans Signal Laboratory." Inside the laboratory, images created by radar signals bounced off the moon are seen on a radar scope, during "Project Diana," on January 10, 1946. View of the Army's GB-4 radio controlled television glide bomb, suspended on a chain inside a building. It rotates around showing various views. Scene shifts to a launching track outdoors at a coastal facility, where a glide bomb takes off raising smoke as it accelerates along the launch path. Next, a GB-4 glide bomb is released from underneath a B-17 bomber in flight. It is seen flying away from the aircraft. Inside the aircraft, a crew member views its progress by means of television images received from a transmitter in the front of the bomb. Glimpse of the television images. View from the ground of the GB-4 bomb gliding to the ground and exploding. Views of a German V-2 rocket at Launch Complex 33, White Sands Proving Ground , New Mexico, where it was being tested by the U.S. Army Ordnance Department in 1946. Inside a control room, an Army technician gives the signal to launch, and the V-2 rocket fires and rises straight into the sky, with its fiery tail visible as it gains altitude. More views of scientists, engineers, and technicians inside a Signal Corps electronics laboratory. Soldiers being trained in radar technology, seated at an electronic array. An army staff sergeant technician working on radar components. A variety of different radar antennas rotating outdoors.
Multiple scenes of groups of people in the United States gathered around radios, listening. Timing is conclusion of labor strike by Coal Miners in the United States. On December 7, 1946, United Mine Workers President John L. Lewis called an end to a walkout of 400,000 coal miners that he had called on November 20, 1946. First scene shows a family seated in a living room listening to the news on a large console radio. The men, young and old, share cigarettes and pipes and smoke while listening intently. Next scene is a bar or tavern and shows a group of men, presumably coal miners, gathered around a portable radio on the bar to listen to the news. Two large American flags hang in the bar. Several men are drinking beer. Next scene shows four men playing cards at a table while they listen to a portable radio on the table. Wall calendar page for December 1946 is on the wall behind them. Next scene shows three men gathered around a wood burning pot belly stove that is heating a room, as they listen to a portable radio. Final scene shows a man and a woman huddled close to a living room console radio as they listen.
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