Activities of Japanese people in Japan. People buy newspaper at newsstand. Election campaign activities. People listen to political candidates. Japanese politicians campaigning in Tokyo. People go to polling booth and cast their votes. Woman puts ballet paper in box. People watch tabulation board for results. Man stand on ladder at the board. The National Diet Building. Emperor Hirohito on throne. Emperor Hirohito addresses the National Diet. He reads the declaration. Speakers on rostrum. The 1947 Japanese Constitution opened. Pages are turned over. Officials enter the Japanese Supreme Court. The court in session. Police instructor lectures police and they make notes. A policeman helps two civilians at a Koban or police box in Sukiyabashi in Yurakucho, Tokyo. Traffic police on crossroad controls traffic. A policeman picks up a ball on road and returns it to baseball player. Witness comes in court and bows. Japanese politicians in meeting around table.
The high frontier of X-15 in United States. Rocket powered aircraft X-15 is towed and taken out from a hangar. Various symbols on X-15. A sign reads 'North American Aviation Inc'. Models of aircraft from earliest to most recent are shown. B-29 launching Bell X-1 rocket plane on October 14, 1947. View inside cabin of B-29. Airspeed indicator in the X-1 shows Mach 1 plus. View of X-1D rocket plane landing in Mojave desert, July 24, 1951, as nose wheel collapses and the plane sends up plumes of sand as it spins around before coming to rest, facing backwards. Test pilot Jean Ziegler is seen afterwards in the cockpit, breathing a sigh of relief. Jet fighter seen exceeding mach 2 airspeed. Animation of B-52B Stratofortress launching X-15. and its landing on desert.
Sign on car reads “Nuffield Exports.” A 1947 Morris Eight Series E automobile is pushed onto a lift platform by dock workers. Car is secured and then foreman gives the signal to lift. Another car is loaded on the platform and lifted. Close up of foreman giving the lift signal. A Matador truck chassis with drivetrain dangling via crane above a ship's cargo hold area. Workers rotate truck while it is lowered.
Blizzard covers New York City and areas from Maine to Washington DC. In New York, people with umbrellas and heavy coats on roads buried in snow. Cars are marooned away from homes in snow. Traffic in Manhattan at a stand-still as cars, buses, railroad tracks and roads are covered in snow. Food supply is affected. People travel on foot. Volunteers dig out snow and clear the roads. Children enjoying themselves in snow.
National Motion Picture studio under construction in North Korea. A movie being filmed at the new studio. A sports meet for workers. Workers participate in various events like short put throw, long jump, marathon race, skiing. Montage of scenes as narrator states, we must abolish the 38th parallel, move south, throw out Syngman Rhee, crush imperialism and became one nation again. Soldiers with weapons and a mass meeting. Men ,women and students parade through Pyongyang street. Montage of Kim II Sung over Korean flags.
An Arab man walks through the outskirts of Jerusalem. A donkey grazes near a house. View of Abbey of the Dormition on Mt. Zion. Man leads a horse carrying baggage near the Tower of David (Jerusalem citadel. ) Arab men sell fruits and gather next to Tower of David (Jerusalem citadel.) Men sell goods at the Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem. View through Jaffa Gate into the old city of Jerusalem.
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