A bus rides up and parks in front of a building in a suburban campus. Men begin to exit the bus and walk toward the camera. The scene is repeated again and this time a group of young men and women step from the bus and walk along a pathway toward the building entrance (unseen). View shifts to inside the entrance hallway of the building, where doors are open to what seem like classrooms. Along the wall is a time clock and cards for persons. A succession of young men take their cards and "punch in" at the time clock, followed by several young women who do likewise.
Film opens showing a woman sitting at a kitchen table along with several children, eating dinner. Abrupt change of scene shows many men, women, and children exiting the Martha-Mary Chapel in Greenfield Village, Dearborn, Michigan. Small boys seen are in short pants, and somewhat older boys wear Knickers (Kickerbockers). It is a summer-like day and seems to be the end of a church service. After momentary interruption, the camera pans over the chapel structure. Next, little girls and boys are shown leaving the chapel. Many of them run, happily. They are followed by grownups who could be Sunday School teachers, or the like. They linger and converse at the front of the chapel. Soon older children begin leaving the chapel.
Railroad train cars carrying Republic of China (ROC) troops arrive at a railroad station, likely in Jinan, in Shandong province during the Sino-Japanese war. ROC troops alight in the railroad station. Japanese planes fly over Shandong, also known as Shantung. Chinese soldiers and civilians run towards safety. Civilians evacuate from Japanese attack. A wounded Chinese man lying in road. Injured Chinese men walk on the street. Chinese soldier pulls out a shell from artillery. Chinese nuns and nurses tend to patients’ injuries. Chinese soldiers run through bombed streets and buildings in Shandong.
Japanese bomb the city of Chungking (Chongqing), China during the Sino-Japanese War. Bombs from fall in Chungking. Firefighters spray water into Chungking’s burning buildings. Chungking houses and streets on fire after Japanese bombing. Firemen extinguish fires in Chungking.
Adolf Hitler enter Vienna after annexation of Austria by Germany (also known as the Anschluss). Tremendous crowds of Austrians assemble at Heldenplatz, in front of the Hofburg Palace, in Vienna (Heldenplatz - 1010 Vienna). Adolf Hitler’s motorcade enters Heldenplatz. Adolf Hitler gives the Nazi Salute, then does a fist pump, to crowd as he rides into Vienna. Austrians crowd in Heldenplatz, some find space in tree branches and in monument equestrian statue of Prince Eugene of Savoy-Carignano located in the middle of the square. From the balcony of the Hofburg Palace, Adolf Hitler makes a ceremonial announcement of the annexation of Austria (Anschluss) into Nazi Germany. Austrians holding Nazi banners watch the ceremonial announcement in Heldenplatz. Adolf Hitler, Austrian officials and the crowd give the Nazi salute after the official Anschluss announcement.
Adolf Hitler arrives by train in Roma Ostiense station in Rome, Italy (Partigiani Square, - 00161 Rome). King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy greets Adolf Hitler with a military salute. Italian Premier Benito Mussolini and Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano greet Adolf Hitler with Roman Salute upon arrival. Adolf Hitler shakes hands with King Victor Emmanuel III, Benito Mussolini and Count Ciano. Adolf Hitler addresses cheering Italian crowds from the Bernini balcony of the Quirinial Palace, the royal residence of the King of Italy (Piazza del Quirinale - 00187 Roma (RM)). In Rome’s Roma Termini Station (Piazza dei Cinquecento - 00185 Rome), Adolf Hitler says goodbye to Benito Mussolini and Count Ciano before he boards the train heading for Florence and Germany. Adolf Hitler waves at crowd from train window.