Brief view of Josef Stalin and Mikhail Kalinin with Molotov and other revolutionaries observing Russian military parade, about 1925. Tanks roll on to the streets and heavy guns are also displayed at the parade. A completely separate scene, from 1946, shows Soviet Premier, Joseph Stalin and dignitaries strolling into the lobby of the Bolshoi theater, where Winston Churchill, Averell Harriman and Joseph Stalin pose for photographs.
Film opens showing devastated snow-covered remains of Peterhof Palace and its fountains, in Leningrad, after the Russians ended the siege of that city in January, 1944 of World War II. The next scenes show crowds gathered on 25 August, 1946, to celebrate the newly restored fountains, which are seen spraying water again. (Narrator notes that Russians now call the place Petrodvorets, meaning Peter's Palace.) An official speaks, at the ceremony, about the architecture of Petrodvorets and its cultural masterpieces still to be restored. Glimpse of statuary and array of fountains. Closeup of several young women holding flowers. Another shot of the fountains spraying along both sides of a central pond, with spectators crowded along the extreme sides near lines of trees.
Nuclear bomb testing footage. Continuous colour film of atomic bomb shot Baker from Operation Crossroads on July 25, 1946, as well as film of the Ivy King shot from Operation Ivy on November 15, 1952. Both nuclear tests were conducted by the United States.
Citizens and United States soldiers walk along the streets in Tokyo, Japan on New Year Day (OshÅgatsu) of 1946. Japanese women and children dressed in kimonos walk along a sidewalk. Some Japanese men and women are also seen wearing face masks. They are wearing face masks during winter influenza season. A woman wearing a surgical mask and fur coat glances at the camera as she walks by. Japanese women and children walking along the streets.
Two handmade 1946 model Ford cars during their test drive on roads in Detroit, Michigan. Four and two door models of the Ford car during their exhibition run. Narrator describes the new Ford cars and speaks to how Ford had not forgotten cars for American consumers after retooling for war production in World War II.
Washington DC: James Wright, house majority leader, speaks about MX missiles and covert action, in the fight of the Contras against the Sandanista government in Nicaragua. He notes that development of MX missiles depends on arms reduction by the Soviet Union. He specifies that arms reduction would save extra expenditure on the military.