Women gather at an auditorium to attend mass meeting to get equal rights for women. Women operate switchboards. A building on campus of Kim II Sung University being constructed. Children and adults receive education in classes. Children receive instruction in dancing, singing and acting. Meritorious students being awarded at a ceremony.
Activities of the U.S. Army Military Police during the Korean War. MPs are active in Operation Little Switch repatriation effort involving exchange of prisoners of war. A sign on an entrance gate: "Welcome, Gate To Freedom". Military Police (MPs) standing at the entrance gate to Freedom Village. The U.S. and UN flags and Korean flags fly from flag poles. Red Cross vehicles arrive. Wounded are carried on stretchers. Men walk with belongings. Korean prisoners board buses. Red Cross workers transfer the wounded. (Operation Little Switch was a first phase and was followed by Operation Big Switch in August 1953).
Honor Guard of UN troops from various nations stand at entrance to the so-called "Peace Pagoda," where negotiations were conducted to end the Korean conflict. U.S. Military Police Officers escort Major General George G. Finch, USAF, Chief negotiator for the U.S. followed by MP officers escorting Lieutenant General, William K. Harrison, Jr. United States Army, Senior Delegate, United Nations Command Delegation, who would sign the truce documents. Separate sequence shows U.S. Army MPs and U.S. Navy Shore Patrol (SP) patrolling streets in Beirut Lebanon, in 1958. MPs talk with a local policeman and point to a map of the Town of Beirut, posted on a wall
Views of a South Bronx neighborhood. From a high vantage point, camera pans across rooftops of apartment houses in section of the South Bronx, New York City. Voices of local residents (unseen) are heard in conversations. Camera zooms in on Wash hung to dry on lines stretched across alleyway between backs of buildings. It focuses on members of a family staying cool by sitting outside on the fire escape of their building. A shirtless boy is looking about in a vacant lot. Another boy splashes water flowing near the curb in the street. Scene of activity on Oak Terrace, elderly Jewish women walk to Temple on Beekman Ave. Children seated in their window. Groups of children playing self-organized games in the street. Women and children on an apartment stoop. Two young women walking together. Boys climbing on their fire escape. Girls playing "potsie" (variant of hopscotch) in the street. Children with noses pressed against their apartment window screen. A girl riding her bicycle. School-aged children talking. Two old ladies walking slowly along the sidewalk. A boy giving a smaller one a "piggy back" ride. Women and their children on steps of their building. Young men "hanging out" on the sidewalk. They gather around with others to watch two boys wrestling in the street. Boys jumping on old furniture placed at the curb. A man, a woman, and a teenage girl, walking. The man holds a small boy in his arms. The teenager takes the boy and she and the man hold his hands as he walks between them. View from car driving slowly uphill on Eagle Avenue heading towards 149th Street. Cars parked on the left side include one that has been completely stripped of its wheels and tires. Further along, two men look under the open hood of a 1960 Plymouth Fury automobile, parked at the curb. Other cars seen parked and pedestrians walking on sidewalks. View from car approaching business district, where steel grates protect some closed establishments. A man getting a shoeshine on the sidewalk. Two well-dressed little girls walking. Pedestrians walking past a line of shops. Partial writing "...Jtch unknown Sinners" is scrawled on building, underneath a sign in Spanish advertising Ballantine beer.
Responsibility of United States Air Force MAC during war time. People carry a wounded on stretcher into a Military Airlift Command (MAC) C-9 aircraft. Trained flight nurses and medical technicians board the plane. Men arrange stretchers inside the plane. MAC planes land and take off. View of Aero-medical evacuation during the Vietnam War in South East Asia. Soldiers carry injured United States Army soldier into a helicopter ambulance in the late 1960s or early 1970s.Medical personnel attend to the wounded on stretchers in a C-9 plane.
Postwar living conditions in the People’s Republic of China under the Communist regime of Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-Tung) photographed by Indians visiting the country. The film highlights China's problems of industry, agriculture, and excess population. Advertisements and posters for the Mao Zedong led economic and social plan titled the 'Great Leap Forward' in 1958. Objectives of the plan. Agriculture, industry, and education in China, including brief shot of men, women, and children in classroom, possibly for re-education. Men and women work in factories and plants. A Russian sign reads 'Made in the Soviet Union'. Workers inside a huge automatic automotive plant set up and supplies by the Soviet Union (SU). A steel and iron company rebuilt and enlarged with the aid of Soviet Union. A seamless steel tube mill supplied and erected by the SU. A plant designed, equipped, and built by SU technicians. A bridge over a river. Women work in a high voltage testing laboratory equipped by the East German government. A fully automatic petroleum refinery built by the Japanese. A heavy gilding machine plant started by the Japanese in 1937. Various factories, plants, and industries in China. Rural farmland and irrigation. People work in backyard furnaces, factories, presses, rolling mills and automotive factories. Deserted city streets with few cars. Workers inside an automotive plant. Communist Party of China Chairman Mao Zedong signs a pact with the Premier of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev. Newspaper headlines regarding the disagreements leading to rifts in the China-Soviet relations in 1960. The Soviet Union withdraws technicians and support from China resulting in closure of industries. Statistics highlight China's dropping industrial production in steel, coal, electricity, and petroleum compared to that of USA, Soviet Union, and United Kingdom.