Lined up members of fungi and moisture proofing team standing near repair truck. View inside the truck. Team members enter the locker room where Signal Corps Radio-610 (SCR - 610) radio sets are kept. equipment are treated by way of cleaning, drying and spraying. Members of proofing team works on assembly line procedures used for handling many units at one time. View of treated and untreated piece of wires.
Views of United States Army soldiers talking on radio sets. A radio engineer working on a radio set. Radio sets and tubes of early times shown. Then a SCR (Signal Corps Radio) 694 radio set is displayed. U.S. Army soldiers moving in military vehicles with SCR 694 radio set and working with SCR 694 in fields. A case containing transmitter and receiver are thrown into water by a soldier. Case floating in water. Soldiers working with different components of SCR 694 radio set. (World War II period).
Harry S. Truman sworn in as President of United States of America at White House after the sudden death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Chief Justice, Harry S. Truman and other dignitaries at White House. United States flag flying at half-mast in honor of the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Also views of crowd gathered for the funeral of U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt. Funeral procession moves slowly through streets of Washington DC. Men and women weeping. Funeral parade reaches the final resting place at Hyde Park, New York.
People walking wearing winter clothes in streets of Chicago, Illinois. Views of the frozen shore areas and ice on Lake Michigan in city of Chicago. Chicago River is jammed by ice. View of railway tracks covered with snow in Europe. Dripping ice on statues. People wearing gloves. Narrator describes snow events in Italy including Florence, Italy. Youth run and slide on ice on frozen river in Italy. Car passing on snowfield. Houses covered with snow and collapsed due to snowfall in Japan. Japanese men and women removing snow using spades and snow shovels. Japanese people shovel snow near homes. Men removing snow from around snowbound railroad trains where passengers had been trapped.
Twelve Boy Scouts of American arrive at the White House to visit President John Kennedy and report on scout activities, coinciding with the 53rd anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America movement. They give a Boy Scout handbook and a membership card to President Kennedy, along with a plaque. Robert Kennedy is rewarded for making a 50 mile hike. Narrator comments that Kennedy had heard about a 50 mile hike challenge that President Theodore Roosevelt had directed for troops via Executive Order, and President Kennedy then advocated for hiking, too. View of U.S. Marines in uniform hiking in response to the President's challenge. View of a group of teenage high school students in Marin County, California, hiking on roads during their 50 mile hike challenge. The teenage boys and girls sprint at the finish of their hike. View of Diane Condon, the first student to finish the hike, in 12 hours and 8 minutes. She is seen sitting and soaking her feet.
Scenes of unusual winter cold and snow in Europe in 1963. View in Britain. Man checking bags of food and dropping food to animals by airplane. Birds on snow near a lake. In Netherlands, the canals are frozen. Boats in frozen water can be seen. Men use cross country or nordic skis to reach lamb stuck in snow drifts (by their mothers for protection). View of harbor in Belgium frozen solid with no ships moving. A stationary ship in frozen water.
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