Delegates of different nations like China,United States exchange greetings. Priests and bishops are also seen meeting and greeting people. Delegates take their seats as convention begins. The congress' president,Fredric Joliet-Curie opens the ceremony and delegates rise from their seats to clap. In his speech he appeals for a world organization to control atomic bomb. Another Italian representative Pietro Nenni in his speech criticizes the Atlantic pact and American action in Korea (during Korean War period).
Yugoslav troops march with rifles. Soldiers ride horses. Civilians and children wave to the troops. Young Yugoslav woman holds her child. (World War II period).
Vilyam Genrikhovich Fisher (Alias: Emil Robert Goldfus, Alias: Rudolph Abel) arrives in Atlanta, where he will serve his prison sentence in Atlanta Federal Penitentiary. He steps down from an Eastern Airlines aircraft, accompanied by his attorney, James B. Donovan, and law enforcement officials.One or two reporters attempt to inverview him. Handcuffed and wearing his trademark fedora hat with white hatband, the prisoner is escorted across the tarmac in the dark.
German planes attack on the Eastern Front. Soldier watches enemies' action. Other soldiers speaks over radios. German Junkers Ju 87 dive bombers flying in formation. High altitude view of the area. Dive bombers drop bombs. Bombs explode and smoke rises from explosions in target area. (World War II period).
Wide panning views from a high point, show rooftops and beyond, of buildings in densely built up major city in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War (World War II). Light snow seen on grassy spaces. A major park-like circle is seen containing a monument. A large building across the park displays a red star on its roof and an elaborate large decorative medal, suspended from the roof, containing a bas relief image of Joseph Stalin. (Although not readable in this sequence, a message in Russian at the top of the building reads: "ОСВОБОПИТЕПЬНЦЕ" (Liberator). Camera pans over more sections of the city including a major commercial street lined with substantial buildings.
Exterior views of the Police Department and jail in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Several cars parked on the street. Patches of snow on the ground. Group of press photographers waits at the entrance. Police officer assists two women who depart in a car, and several men, who depart in a van, over a snow-covered road. Men from the van are escorted by Police officer, as they walk on the grounds of the prison, past an inscription reading:'Jail Office' on the building. Inside the prison compound, Police officers escort three women from a portal with "Gaol Office" inscribed above it. One woman hides her face. They emerge near a building marked "77." A police Sergeant assists them into the back of a waiting car, and opens the front door for a senior police officer.
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