Aerial views of Washington DC in United States. Flying down the Potomac River. Development on either side of the river including Georgetown University and Rosslyn. Views of the Key Bridge over the Potomac River and the old pilings from the removed Aqueduct Bridge, and the Memorial Bridge leading to the Lincoln Memorial. The Munitions Building and Main Navy Building visible on the National Mall beyond the Lincoln Memorial. Roosevelt Island visible. The 14th Street Bridge and the railroad bridges adjacent. View of the Jefferson Memorial. The U.S. Capitol can be seen in the far background. View of the National Airport and the Bolling Air Force Base. Taxied plane on the airstrips and views of the hangars and terminal at Washington National Airport.
Segment of U.S. Information Agency film describing its world-wide operations. Map shows 217 overseas posts in 17 countries, of the USIA (also known abroad, as the U.S. Information Service). Animated map zooms in on one post, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Aerial view of Sugar Loaf Mountain overlooking the harbor and city. Street scene in Rio. USIA Public Affairs Officer, William A. Wieland, is seen walking along a sidewalk in the city. Next he is seen in the office of Ambassador James S. Kemper, briefing him about USIA activities. View of the Brazilian Foreign Office building. Mr. Wieland meets with the Chief of the Cultural Division there. Book stacks in the USIA Thomas Jefferson Library in Rio de Janeiro. Mr. Wieland conferring with a librarian. He is also seen at the USIA broadcast facility in the U.S. Embassy. Film shifts to street scene in Cebu, the Philippines. A building displaying American and Philippine flags, is labeled: " United States Information Service." Inside, and American and a Filipino worker give bundles of literature to local workers for distribution. One, a bus driver, carries his bundle onto his open-sided bus, displaying the name, "Cebu, Autobus." He waves as he drives away. The USIA Public Affairs Officer is seen visiting the Mayor of Cebu City, Vincente S. del Rosario; giving a news release to the editor of a newspaper; broadcasting on local radio;and socializing with local editors. USIA drive a mobile movie van into a remote village where many children are playing. They set up a screen and projector. Almost everyone in town attends the showing. Scene shifts to USIA headquarters building at 1778 Pennsylvanis Avenue,in Washington, DC. Director Theodore Streibert holds a staff meeting. View of President Eisenhower addressing U.S. public media leaders about confronting the Soviet Union with truthful information about the U.S. and the West, on April 16, 1953,in Washington, DC. A USIA technician transmitting text of the speech to its public affairs officers around the world. Views of newspapers carrying the story in Paraquay, Ireland,Algeria, and Burma. The President's speech was printed in a pamphlet entitled "The Peace We Seek," ahd sent abroad where it was translated into Arabic,Japanese, Persian, and 20 other languages. Four million copies were distributed. Posters about the speech were also distributed.
Animated map of world highlights the continental United States, Alaska, the Soviet Union and Europe. Circumferential rings illustrate the scope of radar coverage by America's various air defense installations in the world. A radar installation in a desert. Camouflaged radar installation at a remote airfield where U.S. aircraft are parked. An army camp ow tents and sandbags, containing a large radar array. Views of several radar antennas rotating in various places as narrator explains function of radar systems. View of "Radio Jim Creek," Naval Radio Station very low frequency (VLF) radio antennas at Jim Creek near Oso, Washington State. . The transmitter, itself, is located at Arlington,Washington State. Views inside the transmitter facility, where sailor technicians monitor various instruments and are seen at various work stations. (Note: this army production fails to mention that this Naval Radio Station's primary mission it to communicate with submerged U.S. submarines.)
Aerial view of Rio Grande river flood in wake of Hurricane Alice, in 1954. International Bridge between Laredo, Texas and Nuevo Loredo, Mexico, is completely under water. Houses and fields inundated by flood waters. A soldier patrolling in the area. Store owners seen clearing mud from sidewalks by their establishments. Woman and boys wash mud from sidewalk.
Musician members of the American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada, at their annual convention, in 1954, applaud former President Harry S Truman as he stands with Union President, James Petrillo on stage. The play a short duet, Truman on piano, and Petrillo on the trumpet. They play a part of "Hail Hail the Gang's all here," to the delight of the audience.
View from Douglas Island looking across Gastineau Channel at the city of Juneau nestled at the foot of Mount Juneau (left) and Mount Roberts (right). At the time (1954) Juneau was the Capital of the Territory of Alaska. (Note: Gastineau Channel is a part of the "Inside Passage" of SE Alaska, a naturally protected waterway of the North Pacific Ocean.)
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