Film opens showing German military marching band parading on city street. Spectators line sidewalks and a few stand outside 2nd story windows on buildings. The band stops marching and moves into formation facing to the side of the street opposite the spectators on the sidewalk. A glimpse of Adolf Hitler, smiling. View of the military band again, playing in their fixed formation. A Smiling Field Marshal Hermann Goering see at the head of a group of German miitary officers watching the events. Two Military leaders from Axis States walk past the camera and render Nazi salute. View of Military drummer on horseback performing as he passes statue of 18th Century Prussian General Gerhard Johann David Waitz von Scharnhorst, on Unter den Linden. Italian Benito Mussolini walking with Adolf Hitler on Berlin Street in 1937. They are followed by entourage of Italian and German military officers.Scenes of dense crowds cheering Adolf Hitler in various places and times. Film concludes with showing Hitler giving an impassioned speech.
Invasion plans of the Axis power in the European Theater during World War 2. Film opens, ostensibly, showing Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto speaking at a podium. (There is some question whether this is actually Yamamoto.) The U.S. Capitol and the Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC, with marching Axis troops superimposed as if marching in conquest. Axis troops parade in Berlin, Germany. Animated diagram shows 'divide and rule' ambitions of the Axis powers. Animation showing radio signals emanating from radio towers with propaganda and "LIES". A German speaker delivers a propaganda message from a broadcast studio in Germany. Young women are seen gathering in groups. A woman in Italy receives an award for having many sons. Group of young men and women in Italy walking arm in arm which narrator describes as an effort to boost marriages and encourage having children. Cover of "Der Hammer" magazine in which German Dr. Willband Hentschel writes: "Round up a thousand German girls. Isolate them in a camp. Then let them be joined by a hundred German men. If a hundred such camps were set up, you would have 100,000 thoroughbred children in one stroke." Next scene shows a maternity ward with many (perhaps 30 or more) newborn infants laying on a large surface and being powdered, diapered, and swaddled by a team of German nurses. Narrator states: "Of course the children from this assembly line belong to the State, to be scientifically claimed for conquest."
Henry Ford attends the National Air Tours at Ford Airport in Dearborn, Michigan. Henry Ford with another man in front of a Ford hangar and a Ford Trimotor. In the background is the tail of a single engine Ford 2-AT, #4 from the Ford Air Transport Service "Maiden Dearborn IV". Side view of a Ford tractor in the foreground.
Clip opens with view of some of the 40,000+ fans who crowded Yankee Stadium in New York for "Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day" on July 4, 1939. The Yankees played two baseball games against the Washington Senators that day. Distant footage from left field shows Senators retiring Yankees and running off the field. Yankees run onto the field. In game two, Yankees second baseman Joe Gordon hits a long single that drives in three Yankee runs. Gehrig seen taking framed petition headlined "Don't Quit." Flag reading "1927 Champions" raised on flagpole. Members of that great Yankee team, including Babe Ruth (in white suit) and current Yankee coach Earle Combs (in Yankee uniform) walk up to home plate for the ceremony. Players, executives, dignitaries, photographers gathered at home plate. Gehrig listens to speech, head down. (The only sound bite in this clip is heard here as the announcer says: "In a case like yours, all league and glove lines are obliterated..." ) Next, in footage from game two, Yankees get hits off Washington pitcher Alex Carrasquel. Fans stand up to watch the action. Senators won the first game 3-2; Yankees took the second game, 11-1. (Note: Gehrig, the fabled "Iron Horse" of the Yankees, had to retire that year because of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis aka ALS, often called "Lou Gehrig's disease," which would kill him within two years.)
Crowds at Blackpool front, a seaside town in Lancashire, England, during World War 2. The front of the Blackpool front. A sidewalk with soldiers pass in the foreground. Allied soldiers with girls in uniform getting off a horse carriage. American and British uniformed men and passers walk along a road showing atmosphere of any typical seaside town. American soldiers talk to English girls. Sign over a boardwalk play target range reads, "Learn to Shoot - Give Hitler the Works" with a caricature of Hitler on it. The crowds walk in front. American soldiers and British girls drink at a tea stall called that is shaped like a giant tea pot, and has a banner overhead that says "Jugs of tea."
Activities of civilians on streets in London, England during World War 2. People walk on a sidewalk in London Square. Buildings in the background. A poster reads as 'China Rally to be held at the Albert Hall on July 7th'. Views of the street: pedestrians, British and American soldiers and airmen. People walk along the street. Many stores and shops are seen. People walk along a sidewalk. American soldiers and girls walking in the street. A group of British soldiers talk to a girl. Traffic seen on Magdalen Bridge.
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