Montage of Americana spanning parts of the 1950s and 1960s. Science and technology in the United States. Scientists work in laboratories and conduct various experiments. Scientists look into microscopes and treat patients with scientific medical equipment. People relax at a beach and amusement park. People watch a baseball game. Spectators from behind the fences watch bucking horses in a rodeo. Playing golf. Ten pin bowling. Motorboats race in water. Water skiing. View at a football game, horse race, basketball game, and Joe Louis boxing. Ice skating with sails. Swimming pool and high dive. 1940s fashion scenes: Juke box; Pegged pants; bobby sox;saddle shoes and dancing to an orchestra. People Square dancing, fishing, throwing horse shoes, playing shuffle board and lunching in backyard. Americans enjoying parks with lakes, swimmers, boaters and lots of park benches, where they sit and relax. Contrasting scenes of poverty in America: poor tenement and slum housing; bread line food relief for the poor; criminals being apprehended by police in paddy wagons; African American and some white American people demonstrate by the reflecting pool near Lincoln Memorial, in Washington, DC, during the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Demonstrators holding signs protesting racism, low wages, and poor housing; and advocating civil rights. Travel by Americans: People boarding an Air France airplane, airport scenes and people boarding a Pan Am (Pan American) passenger jet airplane. Ground level shot between art deco sleek passenger railroad trains in motion. People unload luggage from parked passenger bus. Aerial views of American highways with traffic and lots of mostly 1950s era cars and trucks. View of RV trailer park or camping area. Scene from moving car of undeveloped land and then of city at night with many neon signs for hotels, motels, food, and businesses. Vintage American suburban or small town scenes of families in front of houses, tending their neighborhood yards,cutting their lawns, and raking leaves on yards of homes.
Delegates arrive at Potsdam Conference in Germany. Russian officials outside Veterinarian College of Berlin where meeting takes place. Representative for US, Major General Floyd L Parks exits from car and walks to the building accompanied by Russian officials. Allied leaders at conference table include Major General Floyd L Parks, Major General L O Lynne of England, Colonel General Gorbotow of USSR and Brigadier General De Beauchesne of France. (World War II period).
(Audio only). Reporter John Charles Daly reports on US, British and German advance in Europe during World War II. News about Allied forces advancing to Berlin, Russian troops in Austria and war in Pacific. U.S. troops advance on Western Front, French troops in France and Allied Armies in Germany. Correspondent Burnett Winston reports from Supreme Allied Headquarters in Paris. British troops advance across Rhine, U.S. troops under command of General Bernard Montgomery advance. British troops enter into Holland.
Potsdam Conference in Germany. Representative for the US, Major General Floyd L Parks arrives at conference in car. He exits from his car and enters the building accompanied by other officials. Allied leaders at conference table showing Major General Floyd L Parks, Major General L O Lynne of England, Colonel General Gorbotow of the Soviet Union, and Brigadier General De Beauchesne of France. (World War II period).
Charity Carnival in Rota, Spain. An elderly Spanish visitor and two young girls look up into sky, watching sky divers. A U.S. Army group from France which performed for the fair. A sky diver descending. He hits the ground near target at the Naval Station. A large group of visitors run over the field towards the sky diver. Four sky divers descending. One of the men coming down in a red and white chute, striking the ground. The chute collapses in the foreground. Sky diver folding up his chute, several children gather and look on. Sky diver rolling up his chute, surrounded by Spanish visitors.
President Harry S Truman takes the oath before various U.S. officials in the United States. Sign reads 'Birthplace of President Truman - Lamar.' Buildings and people on the street. Women seated in a garden. Officer Truman stands with other officers of the U.S. Army during World War I. Soldiers in a battlefield in France. Black smoke arises due to the artillery fire and explosions. A trench, soldiers march with the U.S. flag. Truman holds two Madonna statues presented to him during a ceremony in the U.S. An Army officer meets Truman and other officials. Army trucks and artillery during the parade.
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