Kasagi-class protected cruiser Chitose of the Imperial Japanese Navy floats into the harbor of Union Iron Works in San Francisco, United States during its launching. The bow of the ship is seen nearly head on with its bow first. Spectators in rowboats watch the launch. Rowboats move and increase in numbers as the Chitose sails past them.
Dramatized scenes: A pretty cook pushes a child away as she mixes bread in a kitchen. A man named Jones comes in from a trip, carrying a suitcase. He lays down his suitcase on the floor. He and the cook talks. He takes off his suit and kisses the cook. The cook puts her arms around the man’s neck, leaving finger imprints of flour on his back. Jone’s wife walks into the scene, accusing her husband of cheating with the cook. Jones denies the allegation, making his wife scornfully points to the finger marks found on his back. The wife becomes angry, seizing the pan of flour and turns it upside down on the man’s head, spoiling his best Sunday clothes. The man escapes and the wife fires the cook through the door.
An old man shaves his face with a dull razor while seated at his shaving table. The man catches hold of the brush and hurriedly coats his face with the foaming soap and makes a second attempt at removing his beard. He wipes his cheeks. He scrapes and scrapes, making painful facial expressions as the razor grows duller with every stroke. The old man winces every time he draws the razor across his face.
Soldiers guard a group of Korean refugees during the Korean War. The refugees sit on the ground. Hungarian rebels shoot behind a building between Károlyi and Cukor Street (Budapest, Károlyi utca 9, 1053 Hungary) in Inner City, Budapest during the Hungarian Revolution in 1956. In a devastated street, a tank rolls in, with Soviet soldiers sitting on top. Burned and abandoned tanks along Andrassy Avenue. Newspaper article titled “Khrushchev Hails New African States”. United States President John F. Kennedy delivers his inaugural speech from the East Portico of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. “We shall not always expect to find them supporting our view. But we shall always hope to find them strongly supporting their own freedom--and to remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.” President Kennedy said.
Douglas C-47 Skytrain Military transport planes air drop special containers by parachute over Newbury, Berkshire, England during World War II. The parachutes with supplies gently descend and on a field. Military Jeeps driving to the drop site. Parachutes and supplies lying on the ground. A soldier rolls up a parachute. Two men retrieve the supplies and parachutes. 101st Airborne division troops load them into a trailer. The Jeep move around field to collect air dropped supplies.
Military Jeep moving around a field where transport planes airdropped containers during World War II. 101st Airborne division troops collect containers from the back of a trailer and lay them on the ground. A soldier rolls a mat on the ground. He retrieves supplies from the mat. He brings the supplies to a stack behind him. They open the containers and separate supplies and ammunitions. Soldiers unload a large container from the back of a Jeep. They throw the container to a pile. A soldier sorts out ammunition.
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