Animated map shows thrust of German forces during invasion of Soviet Russia in World War 2. Stalingrad is highlighted as a turning point. Another animated map shows Soviet territorial gains at the end of the war, as narrator discusses the disposition of those places and their respective populations, as in Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. He also discusses Soviet zones of occupation. Animated map shows "Iron Curtain." Soviet troops on parade. Soviet ZSU-57-2 self-propelled anti-aircraft guns (SPAAG) on display during a parade in 1945. A stadium filled with people in Soviet-occupied East Germany, in 1949. Friedrich Wilhelm Reinhold Pieck, the first President of the German Democratic Republic, is seen in the stands. Young East German women parade in traditional costumes, clapping their hands, in the stadium. Waterfront scenes show Soviet trade activities with post-war occupied entities. Scenes of conflict as Chinese communist forces expel Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist Chinese forces (ROC) from mainland China to Formosa (Taiwan), in 1949. A litter-borne casualty and a refugee mother and small girl are seen as they evacuate.
Interior of a factory with a worm gear cutting machine in operation, New York City. Wheel of a machine moves. Liquid drops on wheel.
American aircraft in flight strafing woods. Aircraft strafes a vehicle on road. Explosion on road. Aircraft strafing small factories and clusters of buildings, in 1945 near the end of World War II in Europe.
Documentary titled 'Story of Automobile' depicts the working and assembling of various parts of Studebaker automobiles in South Bend, Indiana. Workers at a Studebaker automobile plant work on the frame of an automobile. Assembling the frame, assembling gear and worm. Worker assembles piston and shaft with gear box. Filling the housing with grease. Spark and gas control throttles connected with the gears.
A helicopter is drawn out in fields by men. Two men carrying out helicopter fabrication process in a factory. Men working on landing gear. Men working on a cone made up of sheet metal which is attached to a worm wheel. Rotor axis is mounted on gear box. View of men working on rotor blades of helicopter which are pivoted universally to the main rotor axis. Men are shown working with fuselage and tail section of helicopter.
British warship, HMS Glow Worm, arrives in Port at Funchal, Madeira Island, carrying Emperor Charles (Karl) of Austria and his wife Zita, Empress Consort, in exile. The ship fires a salute from its guns. Emperor Charles and his wife Empress Zita debark from a small boat at the Funchal wharf. They are joined by their family. Policemen control the crowd. Emperor Charles and his wife leave a church, escorted by a Roman Catholic Priest, and get into a car. Exteriors of the Villa Quinta de Monte, the Habsburg family’s residence in exile. View of a furnished room with harp and statuary at the Villa Quinta de Monte (Caminho do Monte 192, 9050-288 Funchal, Portugal). A guard marches outside the building. Emperor Charles and Zita get out of the car and walk. Crowd looks on.
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