Downhill view of the American Outpost No 13 at the 38th Parallel in Kaesong,North Korea. U.S. guards patrol the Outpost. Shows a Russian guardhouse across the dividing line. 38th Parallel inscribed in dirt on ground. A sign reading 38th Parallel in English ,Russian and Korean.24 May 1947.
A scene of the Pyongyang River in North Korea. Shows the Russian Tower of Liberation. Scenes before the proceedings of Democratic Unification Meeting at Moranbong, Pyongyang. Exterior views of the meeting hall's building. Political party members, reporters, and localities arrive in numbers at the event. Korean soldiers check entry-passes at gates leading to the Moranpong Theater. Prime Minister Kim II Sung and dignitaries arrive in their cars. Shows empty meeting hall before the meeting. The attendees enter the hall and take their seats. Other prominent dignitaries in the meeting are Kim Do Pong, Hu Hun, Park Hun Yong, Hong Myung He, Kim Chack and others. The meeting proceeds and dignitaries and members make their speeches.25 June 1949.
North Korean woman soldier. Korean War negotiator, for Korean Peoples Army, Lieutenant General Nam Il, enters building.North Koreans in vicinity of building. Exteriors of the building where meetings took place. Korean soldier sits on pavement, his mess kit and belt beside him, reading a book. American and Korean negotiators and staff personnel relaxing outdoors. North Korean negotiators leave in army jeeps. Numerous cameramen take pictures of UN Command negotiating team led by Commander of U.S. Naval Forces, Far East, Admiral C. Turner Joy . Men arrange tables for negotiators. North Korean and Chinese flags on one of the tables. Negotiating staffs relaxing in garden. A young Korean girl walks across a bridge.An American soldier gives her candy and she bows. She runs to several other American soldiers, with her hands cupped and receives candy. Girl stands in grass. American trucks lined up on road. Helicopter overhead.
Shows scenes of a musical concert being held at the Pyongyang theater in Pyongyang, North Korea. An orchestra plays several instruments like clarinets, trumpets and violins under supervision of a Conductor. Group of singers sing in chorus in the background. Montage showing various scenes on the eve of the Independence Day in Korea (also known as Liberation Day, celebrating Korea's liberation from the Japanese). Scenes of lumber-train, Korean soldiers, ship departing, parade by children-bands, girls with '15 August' sign, photo of PM Kim II Sung, Korean National Flag and others can be seen.
Narrated feature on U.S. Army activities during the war in Korea. Focus on the United States Eigth Army. Newspaper cutting in background stating the involvement of UN Forces and U.S. Combat Team in war. 8th Army soldiers hold rifles and move forward. Narrator describes operation of the Army Combat Team starting with the Infantry, and supported by tanks, artillery, and aircraft. Various heavy artillery and tanks are also shown. Close up view of Soviet Russian soldiers marching in Red Square, Moscow, during a parade. U.S. Army soldiers are shown in battle in Korea, including in cold conditions on snow covered ground. Rapid sequence of images of various weaponry in action including flame throwers, M1 Garand rifle, Browning Automatic rifle, machine guns, bazookas, mortar (being fired by African American soldier), recoilless rifles.
U.S. Army Medical Service. Nurses and patients in a U.S. Army hospital ward. View of the medical research center building in Washington, DC. Scientists work on disease research using equipment and laboratories inside the research center. Scientists test effectiveness of chloromycetin on various diseases, such as typhus and typhoid fever. Army nurse injects a military patient in korea. Korea: A nurse checks people in a hospital. Army medical personnel investigate outbreak of sleeping sickness and trace it to organism transmitted by mosquitoes. The scientists observe through a microscope in a laboratory. The scientists collect mosquito samples. The mosquito samples are kept in a glass vessel. The children being vaccinated. The farmers work on a field. The scientists at work. The Korean civilians walk. Two women carry bundles on their head. View of the local houses. Blood samples of the people taken. DDT being sprayed on the field. The aircraft in flight. The troops being vaccinated. A man takes a sample from the sacks containing food for the soldiers. Soldiers fill a bucket from water source.