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USIA film describing the ways it conducts its world-wide operations

Segment of U.S. Information Agency film describing its world-wide operations. Map shows 217 overseas posts in 17 countries, of the USIA (also known abroad, as the U.S. Information Service). Animated map zooms in on one post, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Aerial view of Sugar Loaf Mountain overlooking the harbor and city. Street scene in Rio. USIA Public Affairs Officer, William A. Wieland, is seen walking along a sidewalk in the city. Next he is seen in the office of Ambassador James S. Kemper, briefing him about USIA activities. View of the Brazilian Foreign Office building. Mr. Wieland meets with the Chief of the Cultural Division there. Book stacks in the USIA Thomas Jefferson Library in Rio de Janeiro. Mr. Wieland conferring with a librarian. He is also seen at the USIA broadcast facility in the U.S. Embassy. Film shifts to street scene in Cebu, the Philippines. A building displaying American and Philippine flags, is labeled: " United States Information Service." Inside, and American and a Filipino worker give bundles of literature to local workers for distribution. One, a bus driver, carries his bundle onto his open-sided bus, displaying the name, "Cebu, Autobus." He waves as he drives away. The USIA Public Affairs Officer is seen visiting the Mayor of Cebu City, Vincente S. del Rosario; giving a news release to the editor of a newspaper; broadcasting on local radio;and socializing with local editors. USIA drive a mobile movie van into a remote village where many children are playing. They set up a screen and projector. Almost everyone in town attends the showing. Scene shifts to USIA headquarters building at 1778 Pennsylvanis Avenue,in Washington, DC. Director Theodore Streibert holds a staff meeting. View of President Eisenhower addressing U.S. public media leaders about confronting the Soviet Union with truthful information about the U.S. and the West, on April 16, 1953,in Washington, DC. A USIA technician transmitting text of the speech to its public affairs officers around the world. Views of newspapers carrying the story in Paraquay, Ireland,Algeria, and Burma. The President's speech was printed in a pamphlet entitled "The Peace We Seek," ahd sent abroad where it was translated into Arabic,Japanese, Persian, and 20 other languages. Four million copies were distributed. Posters about the speech were also distributed.

Date: 1954
Duration: 6 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675024522
Segment of U.S. Information Agency film about its Voice of America radio broadcasting operations

Illustration of microphone, announcer, and radio transmission tower. A spanish speaker broadcasting on a microphone labeled, "la voz de los Estados Unidos de América." A Japanese woman broadcasting in Japanese. A man broadcasting in German on a microphone labeled, "Die Stimme Amerika." Others broadcasting in Russian, and English. Cartoon illustrates 70% of broadcasts beamed at listeners behind the "Iron Curtain." World map illustrating U.S. radio transmitters and their coverage in the world.

Date: 1954
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675024528
Efforts by United States Information Agency to provide information to populations behind the "Iron Curtain."

Chart shows USIA information endeavors to send information behind the "Iron Curtain," including libraries, films, newspapers, and broadcasts involved in anti-Communist propaganda during the Cold War. Other charts cite cooperation with private enterprise, including 750 groups, such as businesses, schools, etc. Illustration shows letters written by Americans to family and friends abroad that can inform them of the truth. Town and city affiliation program is shown, with the example of Montclair, New Jersey, in the United States, and its relationship with Graz, Austria. The Mayor of Graz is seen being honored at a dinner in Montclair. Chart illustrates program of salvaging and sending American magazines abroad.

Date: 1954
Duration: 2 min 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675024531
Voice of America broadcasts President's speech and USIS "Atoms for Peace" exhibits are presented worldwide

President Eisenhower of the United States addresses United Nations on December 8, 1953 about atomic bomb and atomic weapon dilemma in the nuclear age (part of Atoms for Peace initiative). Operators in radio transmission control rooms note down readings. View of time clocks of various places in the world including Honolulu, New York, London, Moscow, Calcutta, Bangkok and Tokyo displayed. The Voice of America broadcasts program in different languages by announcers. Scene of a family sitting in a living room as they listen to the president's speech on a console radio. People work at typing, printing, and translating the speech. USIA motion pictures service prepare newsreel of president's speech. A man views air mail of USIA films. Exterior views of several different United States embassy buildings worldwide. A guard standing outside the building. A Public Affairs Officer at the U.S. embassy in Japan, in Tokyo, meets with U.S. Ambassador to Japan Robert Murphy. USIA members seated around table for meeting, and, in Washington DC, creating publications about the Atoms for Peace program. People seated in a USIA library in Brazil read books and various USIA materials. Architects design 30 foot high Atoms for Peace exhibits. An exhibit being setup in a foreign country (possibly in North Africa). Exterior and interior views of the West Berlin, Germany Atoms for Peace exhibit. Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru in India is seen arriving in a jeep to view the Atoms for Peace exhibit in India. Prime Minister Nehru inside the exhibit hall watching a presentation. In Japan, a woman operates remote-controlled robotic hands to hold radioactive materials, at a demonstration for Japanese citizens. In a city in Italy, a view of a mobile van unit carrying an Atoms for Peace exhibit. Scenes from a film "A is for Atom" that was translated into 30 languages and shown all over the world. Wide view of the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union. A Russian radio commentator speaking at a microphone. Propaganda dramatization showing the Russian announcer attacking American plans for Atoms for Peace.

Date: 1954
Duration: 7 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675024534
Japanese Self Defense Force training. Combined Arms School at Camp Fuji.

Japanese ground self defense force under training provided by United States and Japanese government jointly in Japan.Combined Arms School at Camp Fuji. Bayonet drill practice using wooden rifles. Firing recoiless rifles. Firing 155mm howitzers. Firing guns on Sherman tanks. Japanese mechanics repairing and maintaining 155mm howitzers. Japanese drills with semaphore flags. Japanese play volleyball at Camp Fuji. American military advisors work with general staff of Japanese self defense force in "paper war," including Command, Control and Communications exercises in the field, where. Japanese operate military communications facilities. Japanese Defense Forces in chow line and dining hall tent, during field exercises.

Date: 1954
Duration: 2 min 58 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675024888
Training Japanese Ground Self Defense Forces.Hokkaido.Honshu.Japanese 2nd Division, Engineers, Armor,Artillery,Aviation

Aerial views of snow-covered Camp Ashigawa Hokkaido, Japan, home of the 2nd Division, Japanese Ground Defense Forces Northern Corps. Japanese self defense force engineers assemble a Bailey Bridge. Defense Force personnel cross the new bridge in a half-track armed with antiaircraft guns Officers of 2nd signal unit, surrounded by snow banks, work on map reading exercise. Members of 2nd artillery regiment do practical exercises in setting up and operating a 155mm howitzer, in the snow. Members of the Aviation section practice emergency receiving and sending messages from ground to air. A light airplane (PA-18?) snags a message capsule suspended between two poles. The Japanese flag. A new unit of Japanese self defense forces in Northern Honshu. Local townspeople visit the camp in motorcade of jeeps. Japanese Defense force units parade in a ceremony. High ranking Japanese Officers, along with United States Generals Orlando Troxel and Herbert J. Vander, seated during ceremony. Officer, on Japanese Defense Force Sherman tank, salutes. Squadron of L-5 Sentinal Airplanes in flight.

Date: 1954
Duration: 4 min 6 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675024890