India's Prime Minister Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru being welcomed by U.S. President Harry S. Truman in Washington DC. U.S. Secretary of Defense Johnson confers with President Harry S. Truman, Secretary of States Dean Acheson and other men. PM Nehru gets off from an air plane. Photographers take photographs of Nehru and other dignitaries. President Truman on speaker stand with mikes as he welcomes Prime Minister Nehru and invites him to make his speech. Nehru makes a speech and talks about east and west coming together. He opes that together they will work for betterment of humanity. Truman and Nehru shakes hands, pose and go off the platform.
U.S. explorer Richard Byrd's Antarctic III expedition in Antarctica. A man skiing down a snow hill. The ship, USMS Northstar, at the shore in the Bay of Whales. Dog teams pull sleds loaded with supplies from the West Base, which is being abandoned. Supplies are being loaded onto the Northstar by a crane. A tractor tows load.
Factories in Bridgeport, Connecticut. A man walks on either Maiden Lane or California Street. (These streets are now gone.) Smoke rises from the stacks of The American Tube and Stamping Company. The factory is viewed from the west side of the Yellow Mill Channel. Industrial smoke and smog pollution from stacks.
Television discussion about United States- Latin American relations in United States. Frank Carlucci answers the questions of the people regarding this topic. Maria C Siccardi presents the show. A question is asked from Brasilia regarding the United States reactions to Kohl's announcement on Pershing. Carlucci talks about Pershing 1A missile and Soviet dismantling of missile, medium range missile agreement. He welcomes the support of West Germany. The presenter winds up the program.
Memorial statue in Central Park, New York, to the 7th U.S. Army Regiment of World War I (World War 1, WWI, First World War). American infantrymen run with rifles from C-47 transport planes. U.S. soldiers in battlefield in Europe, and parading in tanks and marching,along the Champs Elysee,in Paris, France, with the Arch of Triumph behind them. Soldiers march with flags. People watch. Korean War era U.S. soldiers march with rifles. West Point cadets march in New York City. Houses and buildings along the sides of the street. U.S. Army soldiers in various modes of operation: riflemen, artillerymen, paratroopers,ski troops, and Army engineers building bridges. One scene shows a woman soldier working as a mechanic. Soldiers training on an obstacle course, traversing a polar region with dog sleds. A gun emplacement in Hawaii and U.S.troops parading in the Philippines. A ship traversing the Panama Canal. View of U.S. Army tent Camp in Puerto Rico. A U.S. soldier sentry standing guard beside the ocean, in summer, in Iceland. An American soldier poses on a hill in New Jersey, silhouetted against backdrop of the Manhattan skyline with tall skyscrapers of New York City seen behind him. Sergeant James Mansfield talks about Colonel William Wilson Quinn. Colonel William Wilson Quinn on the show discusses the blue badge of the combat infantryman. The badge framed on a wall. He says that the badge has a blue background which is the color of the infantry. Copy of a rifle on the badge is surrounded by a circle with a star.
Ninth National Convention of the Communist Party USA in New York City, June 24 -38, 1936. The theme as seen in outsize banners included a huge likeness of Earl Browder displaying the words: "Against Hunger Fascism War" and a banner around the hall reading in part: "forward to Unity..." The activities seen are like any major political party convention, including having placards identifying delegates from all the States of the Union, such as Georgia, Virginia,Iowa,West Virginia, Kentucky, Maryland, District of Columbia,Oregon, etc. Lights sweep over the darkened arena highlighting the signs of the various states. Several scenes show massed flags of the Communist Party displaying the hammer and Sickle on a solid field.
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