Allied leaders meet at the Yalta Conference in Crimea, Soviet Union during World War II. Soviet honor guards and a band pass in review at an airfield. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill gets off an aircraft. Churchill's daughter Sarah Churchill in uniform. Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov greets Churchill. Andrei Gromyko in the background. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt seated in a jeep and being greeted by Molotov.
The Yalta Conference in Crimea, Soviet Union during World War II. Russian laborers help U.S. Army Signal Corps personnel to unload wires and boxes of signal equipment. A man lights up cigarettes for the laborers. Men smoke the cigarettes. They unload boxes of signal equipment.
A preliminary meeting of U.S. and British staffs in Malta prior to the Yalta Conference during World War II. Exteriors of the venue of the Malta Conference. A car pulls up outside the building. A sign on the building reads 'Montgomery House'.
Preparations underway for the Yalta Conference in Crimea, Soviet Union during World War II. Trucks carrying Signal Corps equipment parked outside Livadia Palace. Russian laborers and U.S. Army personnel unload crates and boxes from the trucks. The crates piled up outside the palace. Men carry the crates inside the building. The crates and the boxes being arranged.
Soviet Petlyakov Pe-2 bombers on a grass field with engines running. View of bomb load under wing of one. A crashed German aircraft on the field. A German bomb labelled "Nur gegen handelsshiffe" (only against commercial vessels). Soviet ground crews moving bombs on dollies. Squadron of Pe-2 bombers taking off. View of Soviet crew in cockpit and view of waterway beneath with a ship moving in it. A formation of Soviet YAK fighter aircraft in flight. Formation of Pe-2 bombers and crews in cockpits as they release their bombs. A ship on the water seen from cockpit of low flying Pe-2 with aircraft engine and prop visible. A ship exploding and burning. Soviet navigator in bomber using a slide rule. Formation of Soviet bombers and formation of Soviet fighter planes.
Opening slate states that "South Georgia is one of the greatest whaling centers in the World." It notes that more than 10 thousand are taken annually. View from a whaling vessel of a pod breaking the surface of the water. Flocks of birds follow them closely. Slate states that "A whaling trip was a delightful experience for the crew. (This alludes to members of the Shackelton Antarctic expedition who are aboard the whaler for the experience.) Slate states, "The gunner stands on a forward platform to direct the movements of the boat." View of the gunner in the ship's bow. Next, he is seen manning a harpoon gun and directing the ship''s movement. Slate reads: "The harpoon hits the bulls eye and away goes the whale under water at a terrific speed." View of heavy line in the rigging that is attached to the harpoon. (Slate says it is a quarter of a mile in length.) View of the whale being hoisted aboard the ship by its flukes. Whaling crew members use wooden poles with harpoon points to maneuver the whale. The whale is tagged with a Norwegian flag and released. Another view of the gunner in the ship's bow preparing to harpoon another whale. He fires the harpoon gun, twice, at this whale. Closeup of the whale next to the ship's starboard side, where crew members are retrieving it with a line.
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