U.S. and French troops parade in liberated Cherbourg on Bastille Day. The troops and civilians gathered in a city square. Men, women and children watch. Soldiers and civilians hold flags. The US, French Navy and French Forces of the Interior (FFI) march alongside. The band plays. People watch from their homes. General Charles De Gaulle present at the celebration. 'Vive De Gaulle' on a banner. The square is renamed 'Place General De Gaulle.' Soldiers and policemen salute. Children hold flowers. People sing and dance in the square. Musicians play their instruments. (World War II period).
Film opens showing Russian Bear covered by iron gate and slate reading 100 days Blockade. Camera pans over war-damaged areas of the city of Berlin, Germany. Narrator refers to the Berlin Airlift by the Allies and the Berlin residents not giving up. Views of several buildings undamaged by World War 2, including Kammergericht, the Headquarters of the Allied Control Council. Streets crowded by pedestrians going about ordinary business in Berlin. Among them is seen a German soldier, missing a leg and using a crutch. Some Berlin industry activity is seen in a factory where welders are at work. Blockade fences are seen separating the Soviet zone of east Berlin from the allied sectors of West Berlin. Trams are seen that cannot travel between the zones. A person trying to use a gas stove to cook, but has no gas pressure. The city grows dark at night due to electricity shortages, resulting in blackout conditions. Berliners trying to manage simple things at home such as exercising on a fixed bicycle. A man planting a garden in sight of the Brandenburg Gate, at the boundary of the Soviet zone. A police officer using a radio in an automobile in the free part of the city. View of the City Council meeting in West Berlin. This is contrasted with view of East Berlin where members of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) backed by the Soviet authorities are seen meeting in a separate city council of East Berlin, not long before the formal founding of East Germany in 1949. Next, Dr Ferdinand Friedensburg, Mayor of West Berlin, addresses the West Berlin City Council.
Uptown - A Portrait of the South Bronx. A boy flies a kite from a roof. Buildings in the area. A subway train approaches a station. People wait at the station platform. A busy market in the Bronx. Shops, displays and sign boards. Men and women on the streets and shopping in city stores and markets. A policeman in the crowd. Migrants from various countries in the commercial area with shops and stores. People read the newspaper. Many sells a newspaper with headline, "America Falling." Elderly citizens on the streets. A young African American man works as a shoe shine. The Hub area, intersection of Melrose, East 149th Street and Third Avenue. Third Avenue El before it's removal in 1973.
A Wednesday afternoon in the South Bronx, New York City. Camera pans down front of an apartment building on Crimmins Avenue, in the South Bronx, where people are sitting on the apartment house steps, watching men playing stick ball in the street. A 1954 Oldsmobile car turns into the street, keeping to the left to avoid interfering with the ball game. Closeups of players. One tries to take the stick of another. Players watch as a ball, hit high on a building, bounces its way down. A left-handed batter gets set, with a cigarette in his mouth. View down the Avenue. Two men walk along an apartment building roof. A dog walks past a pile of trash. Men seated alone, one backwards on a chair; another on a fire escape; one on a park bench; one in a doorway; and another on a box in front of a store. Two small boys sitting with their shoeshine boxes. Boys playing with a frisbee and two playing catch with a baseball on East 139th Street between Cypress and St. Ann's Avenues. Youth wearing sleeveless sweatshirt painted with picture of a skull and words:"Cara Gons," on it. Police officer in a patrol car parked at a curb. Another patrol car (at 2:48) driving west along 149th street at Bergen Avenue. A young man wearing a sweatshirt with "Latin Crowns" written on it, goes down some steps and through doorway into a building. Another "Latin Crowns" is worn by a youth doing pullups on bottom of fire escape, outside. A boy swings on the same bar. Several youths start to tussle and an older one steps in to break it up.
Day time life in London, United Kingdom while night-time raids by Germany on London were still common in World War II. The Big Ben clock tower. A double decker bus on the street. U.S. soldiers visit Westminster Abbey (Dean's Yard, London SW1P 3PA, United Kingdom). Traffic near the Marble Arch (London W2 2UH, United Kingdom). Citizen speakers address various crowds in London's Hyde Park. Several speakers take their turn. Policemen talk to a man. Allied officers and soldiers in the crowd.
London during World War II. View of Saint Paul's Cathedral. YMCA board near Saint Paul’s Cathedral (St. Paul's Churchyard, London EC4M 8AD, United Kingdom). Various monuments in London. A barrage balloon in the sky. Entrance to Buckingham Palace. A soldier parades up and down at the Palace gates. People watch from outside. A barrage balloon in the sky. Boats sailing near Tower Bridge (Tower Bridge Rd, London SE1 2UP, United Kingdom) on the Thames River. Soldiers unload food supplies from the boats. Sacks of food piled on a boat. Soldiers and people on a bridge. An Irish policeman keeps vigil on Fleet Street.
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