The U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C., United States.Two young men, selected from each U.S. State, participate in the American Legion "Boy's Nation" activities in Washington, DC. They are assembled on the Capitol steps to pose for pictures. Several of the young men shake hands with a welcoming official. They talk and laugh.They wave, collectively for cameras and then ascend the steps.
American Legion "Boy's Nation" visiting group of young men enters State Department auditorium from foyer. A sign on the building reads "Department of State, 320 Twenty-First Street. N.W." Secretary of State George Marshall leans against the auditorium stage, with the young men seated on the stage, behind him. The "Boy's Nation" members all wear identification buttons on their lapels. They pose for several photographs. An audience is in the seats of the auditorium.
Film opens showing Russian Bear covered by iron gate and slate reading 100 days Blockade. Camera pans over war-damaged areas of the city of Berlin, Germany. Narrator refers to the Berlin Airlift by the Allies and the Berlin residents not giving up. Views of several buildings undamaged by World War 2, including Kammergericht, the Headquarters of the Allied Control Council. Streets crowded by pedestrians going about ordinary business in Berlin. Among them is seen a German soldier, missing a leg and using a crutch. Some Berlin industry activity is seen in a factory where welders are at work. Blockade fences are seen separating the Soviet zone of east Berlin from the allied sectors of West Berlin. Trams are seen that cannot travel between the zones. A person trying to use a gas stove to cook, but has no gas pressure. The city grows dark at night due to electricity shortages, resulting in blackout conditions. Berliners trying to manage simple things at home such as exercising on a fixed bicycle. A man planting a garden in sight of the Brandenburg Gate, at the boundary of the Soviet zone. A police officer using a radio in an automobile in the free part of the city. View of the City Council meeting in West Berlin. This is contrasted with view of East Berlin where members of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) backed by the Soviet authorities are seen meeting in a separate city council of East Berlin, not long before the formal founding of East Germany in 1949. Next, Dr Ferdinand Friedensburg, Mayor of West Berlin, addresses the West Berlin City Council.
Daily life for the people of Berlin during the Berlin Blockade. People listen to the radio at a street corner. People buy newspapers at a stand. Man reads the paper. German newspaper headline states that the Berlin problem has been put before the UN. Interiors of a food store, a lady clerk takes contents out of can and weighs it. People coming out of bakery, one woman carrying bread. U.S. planes fly over Berlin during Berlin Airlift operations. Route taken shown over a globe diagram. Men work on a new airfield at Tegel. Workers leveling concrete runway during the construction of Berlin Tegel Airport. Trucks and construction equipment. Coal being loaded into a barge at Gatow. Large drums of coal and equipment. A Short Sunderland flying boat taking off. American planes landing at Berlin Tempelhof airfield. People in truck as it moves towards the plane. People watch planes fly overhead.
Administration of Anesthesia at the Lennox Hill Hospital in New York. Sign on the door reads 'Anesthesia'. Doctor prepares the syringe for anesthesia. Doctor fills the syringe. He holds the rubber inhaler over the patient's mouth. Equipment near the patient. Doctor and nurse administer the anesthesia. They take off the strap, put the oxygen mask on the patient, and adjust equipment. The patient loses consciousness gradually.
Doctors and nurses prepare for an operation at the Lenox Hill Hospital Hospital (100 E 77th St, New York, NY 10075, United States) in New York. Sign on door reads: 'Operating Room'. Nurses prepare sterilized instruments and towels. Nurses wearing surgical masks arrange sterilized towels. They handle sterilized instruments wearing gloves. A nurse carries a tray of sterilized instruments from the sterile room. Chief Surgeon Dr. Otto Pickhardt dries his hands with a towel. A nurse helps him put on a surgical coat. Doctor powders his hands and puts on rubber gloves. Assistant doctors wash their hands with alcohol.
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