Film from 1965 shows scenes that span from early 1940s through mid 1960s. Film opens showing armed conflict in Laos and South America. Soldiers firing rifles in jungle areas. Armed men running across a field and in a town in Cyprus. Heavy armor engaged in conflict and buildings burning in undisclosed location. Riots in Congo with a crowd of men beating another man. Armed Republic of South Vietnam soldiers (ARVN) moving through jungle in Vietnam War. A Viet Cong fighter shot as ARVN troops attack a hut. People fleeing in streets of Cuba as government soldiers engage armed revolutionaries under Castro. A civilian woman suffering a seizure as Red Cross workers attempt to carry her. Burned body of dead tank crew soldier atop a tank. Medical corps persons moving wounded on a stretcher. Various views of ARVN with captured Viet Cong in Vietnam. Narrator discussion about Geneva Conventions and Counterinsurgency. View of the Palace of Nations building in Geneva Switzerland. Scene shifts to inside, in 1949, where delegates of 59 nations are gathered to develop new rules expanding the original 1929 Geneva Conventions, in order to better protect prisoners of war, wounded prisoners, noncombatants and others caught up such internal conflicts. View from ground of German paratroopers during World War 2, jumping from Junkers Ju-52 trimotor transport planes. Closeup of German soldiers leaping from a plane and descending in parachutes. Japanese soldiers surrendering to Americans on a Pacific Island in World War 2. Several scenes of massacre victims lying on the ground, victims of Nazi German brutality in Europe during World War II. Survivors of a Nazi concentration camp near the time of its liberation in 1945. A U.S. Army medical corpsmen help one to a stretcher. Executed prisoners of war. Courtroom of the Nuremberg trials. Seen in the front row of Nazi leaders are: Hermann Göring, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Alfred Rosenberg, Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, and Julius Streicher. Seated behind them are: Karl Dönitz, Erich Raeder, Baldur von Schirach, Fritz Sauckel, Alfred Jodl, Franz von Papen, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Albert Speer, and Konstantin von Neurath. Scene shifts to the postwar trial of Japanese Lieutenant General Masaharu Homma, in the Philippines. Prisoners with hands bound, in an unidentified Asian conflict, being herded into an open truck. Views of the document constituting the 3rd Geneva Convention of 1949, addressing treatment of prisoners and of parts directed to "conflicts not of an international character." Views of a traumatized civilian driver wounded and a female passenger killed in in his car (appears to be in Cuba or Latin America). Armed gunmen have the man leave the car. A man lays the body of the woman beside the car. Scene shifts to a group of surrendered Vietcong fighters with their weapons stacked. Wounded combatants being carried on stretchers. American survivors of a Japanese prison camp receiving a good meal after being rescued - this is possibly in the Philippines in 1945. Many of the American prisoners are gaunt and emaciated and malnourished. Narrator recites list of activities prohibited by Geneva conventions, as images show these activities: A ditch filled with victims of massacre. Hostages being taken in an internal conflict in an African country. Prisoners being beaten by non-uniformed civilians in and humiliated in public. A recently liberated prison with a former prisoner in striped uniform beating a man as a group is marched away (likely a World War 2 concentration camp with a liberated prisoner beating a former Nazi guard). Death sentences being rendered without due process. A court in Cuba. A boy pointing at a lineup of prisoners. A prisoner shot.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Gemini program activities to prepare for the Apollo moon mission. Footage spanning multiple years in 1960s. Multiple views of the Saturn V launch vehicle (rocket) on launch platform and as it is moved into position at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Helicopter lifting off beside Saturn V with rocket and launch tower in background. Spotlights at night shined onto a Gemini Titan II rocket. Narrator explains purpose of Gemini as precursor to Apollo program. A specially configured USAF C-135 (Boeing 707) aircraft taking off and views inside, as it performs parabolic sweep maneuvers to give astronauts some experience with "weightlessness"and the operation of equipment in such conditions. View of a swimming pool with Gemini astronauts practicing neutral buoyancy with their vehicle and equipment in semi-weightless conditions. Views of Gemini astronauts training in a simulator and undergoing special parachute training. Astronaut survival training including exits from capsule at sea, desert, and jungle training. Gemini astronauts boarding capsule for an orbital mission from Launch Pad 19 at the Kennedy Space Center. Narrator names all the Gemini astronauts: Grissom, Young, McDivitt, White, Cooper, Conrad, Borman, Lovell, Schirra, Stafford, Armstrong, Scott, Cernan, Collins, Gordon, Aldrin. View of NASA Gemini astronauts entering capsule, being seated, secured, and door closed and secured before launch.
A film 'Crowds and Their Behavior' about behavior of crowds of people in various situations in the United States, used for FBI training. View of a chaotic beach scene, likely college Spring Break. College aged men and women dance on the beach. Many dance moves of late 1950s and early 1960's are seen. Group of men holding large blanket or tarp toss women into the air and catch them. People around police vehicles. People run as policemen arrive on the beach.
A post-war U.S. Army film (after World War 2) in 1945-1946 contrasts dice and pool playing soldiers with the soldiers who take Army extension classes to prepare for jobs in civilian life following demobilization and discharge from the Army. Group of U.S. Army soldiers in a room as they play pool at a billiards table. Soldiers in a barracks room seated on a bed and on the floor throwing dice in a game of craps. The soldiers play cards and smoke. Contrast is shown with U.S. Army students seated in a class. An officer takes lessons. A soldier takes notes. A young teacher or professor explains a concept with the help of a blackboard. View of the Hôtel Miramar in Biarritz, France (built in 1927 and demolished in 1978). Aerial view of a building with interconnected corridors. Street level view of the University of Calcutta Senate Hall in Calcutta (Kolkata), India (hall designed by Walter Granville; one time home to the Asutosh Museum of Indian Art; demolished in 1960). People walking in front of the Senate Hall as a car and a pulled rickshaw go by. In next scene, a sign reads 'Fox-Hole Campus'. An officer holds a mechanical model and explains a concept to students. A soldier works with equipment and an African American soldier stitches clothes at a sewing machine. A sign "Learn today; Earn tomorrow" as soldiers learn skills to help them in the civilian sector after separation from the armed forces. A solder works on a model. Pamphlets on a desk with the names of different subjects written on them that U.S. Army students can study to learn skills and jobs, including Automobile Repair Shop, Retail Bakery, Service Station, Grocery Store, Metal Working Shop, Shoe Repair Business, Small Sawmill Business, Beauty Shop.
American dance known as The Twist has reached Europe. An older man and a woman doing twist dance and teaching it to younger people around them who watch them dancing and then try the twist. Three men doing the twist. Men and women dancing the twist to rock and roll music. The men and women doing the twist dance in pairs in dance clubs all over Europe. Vintage early 1960s fashions seen among the dancers. They enjoy the dance. A woman typist seen seated at her desk doing the twist in her rotating chair. A French postal mail delivery man delivers the mail while doing the twist. A policeman controls traffic on a busy street while doing the twist.
A USAF film report shows the production lines, fabrication and testing of radio antenna elements, and receiver and transmitter modules in the United States. The Bendix Radio division headquarters building in Towson, Maryland. 1960's cars parked outside the building. An engineer writes on a blackboard. Other engineers seated around a table. The production line where parts are being assembled into antenna elements. People at work in the plant. Women on an assembly line assemble the parts. The receiver and transmitter modules hooked up to load to special test cells. The life test runs being conducted. A man operates the controls. The sub systems being tested in the engineering laboratory. Men work on beam steering. Men at the plant test individual fabricated parts. A man checking and testing a sub system. The testing of receiver antenna module control. A man mounts a steel sheet panel on the modules. The testing of the antennas and a woman operates controls. The modules packed and transported by a truck. View of truck leaving the assembly building, with "Bendix Radio" sign on the building. The Spacetrack Radar site under construction in Florida. Men at the site install the completed panels on the planar surface. The outer panels placed on a planar surface by a power driven sled lift. A man seals the panels. The land grading is finished around huge structure by a large powered grading truck. The power transmission facility nearby and air conditioning equipment at the base.