A hearing in front of the United States Senate's Kefauver Committee investigating crime in interstate commerce. Panel including Chairman Kefauver (Tennessee) in the hearing along with other committee members Herbert R. O'Conor (Maryland); Lester Hunt (Wyoming); Charles Tobey (New Hampshire); Alexander Wiley (Wisconsin).Rudolph Halley is Chief Counsel for the Committee. The defendant, Frank Costello, enters the room and is seated. Microphones are placed in front of the members of the Committee.
A child selling melons in an open air food market in Iran. Flies flying over the food. Native people wash clothes in a gutter and perform various chores. Natives fill water from a dirty river. Natives swimming in the river. Buffaloes bathing in the river.
In live fire practice,during World War 1, two French soldiers walk forward and hurl hand grenades, as several others watch from behind protective barricades. The grenade throwers hit the ground as soon as they release them. Others duck down behind their barricades. New scene from atop a building in a town, an artillery shell is seen bursting and smoke rising near a building by a distant road. Two shell explosions are seen on a hillside and one releasing white smoke (possibly gas). French soldiers busy themselves at their fortified positions on high ground above a plain, while an officer slowly rotates a large finned mortar shell on its shaft, vertically. (WWI; WW1)
Piloted by the tug boat 'Thomas F. Timmins' the first German cargo submarine 'Deutschland', a blockade buster of the Entente Powers naval blockade, arrives in Baltimore Harbor. An animated map shows the movement of the submarine from Germany. Captain of the German submarine 'Deutschland', Paul König, with other men (Konig's name is listed in the slate as Koenig). German sailors on the submarine as it is escorted in port by the tug Timmins. Last part of clip switches to the Atlantic waters off of Provincetown, Massachusetts, where the latest United States Navy submarine, the USS M-1 (SS-47) is seen during its test trials. It was the world's first doubled-hulled submarine.
A vessel seen in ice filled river in New York City as cold wave grip United States. Men stand on snow. Several people enjoy in ice filled waters.
To prevent sun-tan without sunburn blistered backs girls try out a new 'Beach-bag' which is transparent and serves as a partial sunscreen. Covered from foot to neck in transparent bags the girls take sun bath on the beach at Del Monte in California.
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