American flag flying from a tall flagpole over a hill near Henderson Field on Guadalcanal during World War 2. U.S. Marine officers are seated at a table in a local headquarters tent dug in and sandbagged at the base of the hill, which sits on the edge of the captured Japanese airfield (Henderson Field). One of the officers is looking through binoculars. Nearby, behind them a C-45 transport plane (Beechcraft Model 18) is approached by a fuel truck. Many other aircraft parked aircraft are seen in the distance. Two Marines standing in front of a mound of sandbags discuss something on a clipboard. Several Marines relax in front of a wooden building. Another Marine officer wearing a sidearm joins them with a large map, which they discuss. One of the Marine officers is a Colonel (O-6). Scene shifts to a B-17, tail number 41-2403, taxiing. Next, several B-17s are seen through palm trees, flying overhead. One has its landing gear extended and descends, beyond some trees, to land. Camera moves to a site where pipelines are being repaired by Seabees. A Seabee welder is at work on one. Seabees move new pipe into position on cross ties. (Note: The B-17 Number 41-2403 ditched January 27, 1943, on the way from Guadalcanal to Espiritu Santo, with Brigadier General Nathan Farragut Twining, Commander, 13th Air Force, on board. On 1 February 1943, the U.S. Navy rescued him and 14 others from their life rafts, near New Hebrides Islands.)
The first Cold War era USSR two-stage hydrogen bomb, the RDS-37, detonates at the Semipalatinsk nuclear weapons test site. Multiple thin mushroom clouds form before a larger, thicker ring-shaped cloud forms in dark red sky.
Admiral Aleksandr Vasiliyevich Kolchak, Leader of the White Russian (anti-Bolshevik) forces during the Russian Civil War that followed the Russian Revolution. He descends steps from palace at Omsk, Russia. He salutes an honor guard and enters an open car accompanied by his aides. Scene shifts to peasant recruits drilling in a field. They stand in formation and practice shouldering arms. Final scenes show White Russian troops assembled and on parade in Barnaul, Altai Krai (Russia). A group of soldiers stand by artillery field pieces. Others parade and include contingents of infantry, mounted cavalry, and horse-drawn artillery units. Troops seated on ground beside heavy machine guns. Troops bringing supplies ashore from a small ship on the Ob River.
Meeting of men in a rural village of Russia, during the hard times following world war I and the ensuing revolution and civil war. Closeup of local leader speaking to men of the village. Behind him hangs a homemade flag with hammer and sicle and various slogans written on it. Camera pans back and forth from the speaker to the audience during the film, showing closeups of faces of some of the working class village men as they listen intently. An intervening slate, in cyrillic, seems to allude to the U.S. and a working relationship with the village (possibly related to efforts of the U.S. American Relief Administration, in Russia, during this period). At the conclusion of the talk, the villagers are obviously delighted with what they heard. Some of the men express their exuberance by lifting the speaker, bodily, up and down several times.
A Russian factory and an oil field in Russia during World War II. Men at oil well tower on an oil field in Russia. Workers at controls. Man takes reading from an instrument at tower. Russian women workers at sewing machines in a factory. Instructor with Russian woman.
Men carry load towards their destination in Europe. Two women carry branches on their backs. Men with branches on horse carts, being passed on road by car carrying tourists. Views of workers with feet wrapped in cloth (Portyankis) and wearing heavy aprons. Double car electric trams on town street. People hang on back of trams, a man runs for one. Camels draw carts loaded with logs.
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