Committee for Hemisphere Defense and Economic Solidarity holds a meeting at Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Members seated at the Conference table. Documents in front of the delegates. Chilean delegate as President of the Committee. Newspaper men gathered at the end of the room. Cameramen take pictures. Uruguayan Representative Guani reads newspaper. Senhor Aranha, Peruvian delegate, Ruiz Guinazu and Chilean delegate give their views on severance of relations with the Axis. The U.S. Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles seated in the conference. (World War II period).
Gestapo torture chambers in Paris, France. Walls of torture chambers of Gestapo (German Secret State Police). Members of victim's family wait to enter. Huge crowd gathered. Interior of the chamber. Burning chamber in view. Hand prints on wall around stakes to which victims were tied for execution. French soldier and policeman look at riddled post. (World War II period).
Gestapo torture chambers in Paris, France. Interior of torture chambers of Gestapo (German Secret State Police). French soldier and policemen near boxes. French soldier and policemen hold a cloth. Ropes and blind fold used on victims. A Nazi prisoner. French men with Nazi prisoner look at post. Burial posts. French soldier stands in a burial pit. Policemen stand in the background. (World War II period).
Citrus Festival in Mission, Texas. An 'All Star' event is held in the 'Lone Star States's' 8th Annual Citrus Fiesta. A decorated float parades in the festival. Women dress up for the fashion show. A woman takes help while preparing for the fashion show. Several women seated in the background. A woman opens a wardrobe and prepares for the show. A fashion show held during the festival. The costumes are made of fruits and vegetables.
Opening scene shows a German soldier using a sounding range and direction finder to locate British aircraft attacking German installations in France during World War 2. The next scene is during a foggy night. German searchlights are seen trying to locate attacking British aircraft. A flare is seen falling toward the ground. German antiaircraft guns fire. Engine sounds of aircraft are heard. View of German gunners firing tracer bullets and heavier antiaircraft guns skyward. A ball of fire in the air marks a struck British airplane. Closeup of burning British aircraft wreckage. Next, a ledger of British aircraft downed by a German antiaircraft battery is seen. It shows a list of British aircraft shot down in July and August, including: Bristol Blenheim light bomber; Short Stirling bomber, numerous Spitfires; and other aircraft. Workers are seen walking through a yard filled with the wreckage of British aircraft in a junk yard, where a powered crane is seen raising wings, and engines of the aircraft and loading them onto rail cars. The Narrator states that by November, the German defenses had downed 923 British aircraft. View of a loaded open rail car and a locomotive pulling loaded rail cars.
Hundreds of horses are seen being herded by Kyrgyz horsemen, inhabitants of the Kirghiz (Kyrgyz) Soviet Socialist Republic (formerly known as Kirghizia). The horses are being moved from summer quarters in the mountains to winter quarters. Closeup of horses and a famous breeder who is also a member of the Kirghiz parliament. He is in charge of the annual drive of horses to their winter quarters. Horses moving as a herd across mountainous land and later being escorted singly, by men on horseback, along a tree-lined trail. Narrator states these horses are generally a cross between Kirghiz breeds and English purebloods, and have won many races on Soviet racetracks. Next, men are seen riding their horses into Lake Issyk-Kul for a bath. They ride out again and across the sandy shore. Mountains are visible in the background. The final scene shows horses in their winter quarters stalls.
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