Jazz musician Louis Armstrong in the United States. Cover of "Downbeat" magazine, celebrating Louis Armstrong's 65th Birthday. The title reads 'down beat, Salute to Satch'. Views of special issues of musical publications published on Louis Armstrong's birthdays. Titles of books reading 'Satchmo' and 'Ma Nouvelle Orleans'. A book titled 'My life in New Orleans' by Louis Armstrong. Louis Armstrong singing during one of his performances. Musicians playing instruments in the background. The audience applauding. Louis Armstrong performing during several of his performances, including close-up of Armstrong singing Cabaret.
Japan roughly twenty years after World War II. The front page of a Japanese newspaper. A Japanese banner. A large outdoor gathering of Japanese people kneeling. They rise all together at the beginning of some event. A family of three, father, mother and daughter, seated on the floor in a house. The man reads from a scroll, perhaps something written by his daughter. A Japanese newspaper showing a map of the Mediterranean Sea and surrounding regions. Pedestrians move along a street. A man drops a rolled piece of artwork and another pedestrian picks it up. He hands it to the man who dropped it and expresses pleasure at recognizing him from the past. The two of them go to the artist's studio. Oil paintings in the studio, some on a wall and some rest against tables. The visitor admires the paintings as his host, the artist, bends over small Hibachi. The two men squat on the floor over a Hibachi. One of them looks through a magazine of art work from around the world. Two men talk. View of studio shows tubes of oil paints, paintings and sketches of warships, painting of Japanese Naval war ensign, and paintings and books on a shelf. Models of warships in a bookcase. The two men converse, as one smokes. Papers pinned on a wall include a painting of a warship; a warship recognition chart; a picture of a submarine and a picture of a Cruiser warship. The two men lie on the floor and reminisce. Articles on furniture in the room include: radio; a bust; model airplane; model of a naval warship.The two men settle down to sleep, on the floor, still reminiscing.
Night club Whisky a go-go in West Hollywood, Los Angeles California, on Sunset Boulevard. Nighttime scene in city. Elevated view of 1960's cars as they drive down Sunset Boulevard, then view from point of view of a moving vehicle looking toward another car moving on Sunset Boulevard. View of the entrance for the "Red Velvet Club" at 6507 Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. Scene changes to show people inside what is presumably the Red Velvet Club (or possibly nearby Whisky A Go-Go night club). Young men and women dance as a band plays at the club. Views of vintage 1960's fashions, clothing, hair styles, and dance moves of the time. Close up views of the dancers and of band members on guitar, keyboards, and drums. Some patrons simply sit at tables and watch the dancers. Some people are dressed conservatively, and others are on the edge of 1960's fashions. The band plays as men and women dance and enjoy the music.
OAS (Organization of American States) troops in California, United States. An OAS soldier cleans equipment in a factory. The equipment is lifted and is carried by an overhead crane. Officials sit in a gathering. An official addresses people. A curtain being raised at the inauguration of the equipment. The officials clap.
A Pregnant Guppy heavy lifter aircraft in California, United States. Entrance of the 'Rohr corp riverside plant'. The doors of the plant opened. A car parked outside the plant. Cars and a flatbed truck loaded with heavy cargo driven towards the factory. An aircraft taxis. A side of the aircraft reads 'Largest Plane In The World'. 'The Pregnant Guppy' written on the side of the aircraft. Hi-rail crane trucks lift the equipment. A flatbed truck driven. The back half of the aircraft separated from the other half. Heavy cargo loaded into the aircraft on a rail. The aircraft taxis and takes off.
Sniper fire on 82nd Airborne Military Police in the Dominican Republic during a civil war. 82nd Airborne Military Police at a busy traffic control point are attacked by harassing rifle fire. U.S. Army and civilian vehicles pass an intersection. Civilians walk along a street in the foreground. Soldiers take cover against a building. One soldier starts running across storefronts. Corner with rubble on street. Two soldiers with rifles near a store. People run across the intersection. An American soldier walks near a storefront. A civilian carrying a package walks calmly across a street. Other civilians on the street. 82nd Airborne soldiers run from a gas station. U.S. Army trucks driven. Jeeps come to a stop. The Americans run around a street corner.
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