A heavy duty fork lift unloads Landing Craft Mechanized (LCM) LCM-8 at United States Navy (USN) cargo ramp in Dong Ha, Vietnam. A fork lift backs up at ramp. The LCM-8 at ramp for unloading. Water churns behind an LCM-8. Cargo in the deck area of LCM-8. A stencil on crate. The fork lift picks up a large crate. The fork lift backs off the deck of the LCM-8. The stencil on a small box. Clothes drying on line on the deck of LCM-8. The fork lift moves on deck of LCM-8. The fork lift underway on ramp works with cargo. Two crates loaded on fork lift. The operator of the fork lift controls the levers. The fork lift backs off LCM-8. A crate picked up and carried by forklift. The fork lift moves out of the LCM to offload cargo. The rear view of the operator at controls of the forklift. The wheel of the forklift moves on deck. Crate on forklift backing away. The fork lift backs off the LCM-8 with crates and the operator at controls. The crates on the deck in the foreground.
A film about the activities in Washington DC during World War II. On 2nd January 1942 the President of the United States Franklin Delano Roosevelt with delegates from 26 nations sign a mutual aid pact in the White House. View of the contents of the pact and the signed pact.
Opening scene shows Peace Tower (Gothic clock tower) and Canadian Parliament Buildings in Ottawa, Canada. In the close foreground, outside an iron gate, a statue of Joan of Arc is seen, with Ottawa Parliament Hill buildings behind. The entire area is covered in snow. Next scene is in a lab where two men shave hair off of a Rhesus monkey as part of Polio vaccine research and development. Next scene is outside the Peace Tower, as Canadian Minister of National Health and Welfare Paul Martin, Sr., (Joseph James Guillaume Paul Martin) stops and is seen seen speaking to someone off camera. Paul Martin Sr. ascends steps and enters Parliament Building. Next scenes show lab technicians removing a monkey from a cage. With help of others, he shaves the hair of the rhesus monkey. A monkey inside a cage. The monkey eats a banana. A man takes the monkey out from the cage.
King Albert I and Queen Elisabeth review a parade in Belgium, after World War 1. Queen Elisabeth standing in an open car, holding a large bouquet of flowers. King Albert I joins her. Car being driven amidst a large crowd. King Albert I and Queen Elisabeth, on horseback, review Belgian soldiers as they march in a parade. People watch as American soldiers , led by a military band, take part in the parade.
Film opens showing animated images of elephants created by fireworks. View of the Pont Alexandre III bridge illuminated at night with fireworks in the sky above and sparks spouting from containers on the bridge. View of the Nymphes de la Seine statue group by sculptor Georges Recipon, is seen on the near (western side) of the bridge. The fireworks fountains on the bridge increase their discharges. Next, showers of sparks and heavy smoke appear, as people walk across the bridge. (These fireworks are generated East of the bridge.) Spectators viewed from behind are silhouetted against the white smoke and fireworks, as they watch the show from the nearby Pont de la Concorde Bridge. A group of swirling fireworks in the sky. Animated images of dancers wrought in fireworks. One of them collapses. An animated fireworks image of an urn spewing fire, topped by two fish moving atop it. Firework portrait of man with name "Chamberlain" beneath it. Firework bust of Admiral Byrd, with "Byrd" beneath it. Animated firework picture of the Spirit of St. Louis (Lindbergh's airplane) approaching the Eiffel Tower, followed by firework portrait of Lindbergh, with name "Lindy" above, and sequence of word: "The" followed by image of a lone eagle, and words: "of the U.S.A. Film concludes with more fireworks displays.
President of the United States Lyndon Baines Johnson visits Cam Ranh Bay Air Base in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. President Johnson decorates United States Army men with medals and return to platform with General William C. Westmoreland. President Johnson talks to officials. He addresses people. Camera men in the foreground. General William Wallace Momyer and General William C. Westmoreland being awarded the Distinguished Service Medals for their respective services by President Johnson. The President leaves the platform.
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