Map showing Crimea and surroundings, including Dnieper, Donez, and Don Rivers, and cities of Kiev, Kertch (aka Kerch), Novorossiysk, Stalino (aka Donetsk), and Sevastopol. German soldiers looking from a high point of land overlooking narrow body of water in vicinity of the Isthmus of Perekop, in World War 2. Romanian troops in summer uniforms with short pants, enter motor boats and navigate narrow waterways lined with tall grasses and shrubs. A shell or bomb explodes throwing water high in the air. The Romanian troops beach their boats and rush ashore. Soviet shellfire strikes a beached boat which explodes in smoke. The Romanians set up a machine gun and fire it with one man pulling the belt ammunition through as another feeds it. More scenes of motorboats speeding through the narrow waterways. Soldiers with boats at a small dock.
U.S.S.R Aviation Day celebration. Crowd has gathered to see achievements of Soviet air power. The Civil Aviation Programme is supported by Soviet government. Performance by glider team and sailplane squadron doing gymnastics. 04 August 1958.
Launch of ballistic missile Atlas 7D at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. Scenes from a static camera. 18 May 1959.
Launch of ballistic missile Atlas 7D at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. Scenes from static camera of missile's ignition and shutdown resulting in failure of launch programme. 18 May 1959.
Red Shirts(Aviation ordnance crews) are seen at work on deck of the U.S. Aircraft Carrier, USS Coral Sea. They load bombs on pylon of an A-4E displaying "VA-153"(Attack Squadron 153) on its fuselage and tail code "NL" of Carrier Air Wing 15. Yellow shirt, flight deck director speaks in microphone. An E-2A tactical Airborne Early Warning (AEW) aircraft is catapulted.Yellow shirt giving rev-up to A-4E aircraft , launch signal is given. A-4E takes off. Planes take off the deck in succession. A-3B is given a launch signal by an officer , plane takes off. Smoke is generated as the planes takes off.
Posters of various Federal Theatre presentations by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the United States during the Great Depression. Posters of dramatic theater productions like Macbeth, Battle Hymn, Jefferson Davis, Taking the Air and The Mikado, at various theatres in New York and New Jersey. A painted truck of the Portable Theatre. A puppet show at the "Theatre of the Magic Strings". Children lined up at the theater entrance with the marquee seen announcing "Marionettes" and the box office area. Children laugh during the show with the marionette puppets. A performance of the Gilbert and Sullivan popular operetta Pinafore with actors singing on stage the song "For He Is An Englishman". Actors seen on stage for Sinclair Lewis play 'It Can't Happen Here'. A presentation of the William Shakespeare play "Macbeth" presented by an all African American cast (also termed "Voodoo" Macbeth).
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