United States Army Air Force Boeing B-29 Superfortress aircraft, and activities of airmen on North Field, Guam, immediately after World War II. Parked B-29 aircraft warm up. Aircraft of the 314th Bomb Wing, 29th Bomb Group (Tail Code "O"), 330th BG (Tail Code "K) and several of the 19th Bomb Group (Tail Code "M") are seen. B-29s taxi and maneuver on the ground as they are moved to different parking places.
About a month after the end of World War 2, .Airmen at the 20th Bomber Command Headquarters create a comic movie about a B-29 aircrew. The aircraft windows are blacked out or fogged out. Three "aircrew" are seen sitting in a B-29 aircraft. Two sing while the third plays a harmonica. In the cockpit, the "pilot" holds a silk stocking in hand. He kisses it and places it in his jacket. On "final approach" to land, the "pilot" has placed the silk stocking over his control pedestal. He manipulates the yoke as if controlling the aircraft, then starts to pull back all four throttles, but has difficulty, until he remembers to release the throttle lock, and then pulls them back, pretending to land the B-29.
About a month after the end of World War 2, Airmen at the Headquarters, U.S. 20th Bomber Command, Guam, Marianas Islands, try their hand at movie making for fun. Numerous takes of airman's hand on control stick in cockpit of a P-51. The first is with a glove on. Others are barehanded. He manipulates the control stick and presses weapons firing buttons. In a different scene, a "pilot" sits in cockpit of a dented P-51 and with help of contrived background appears to be flying. He acts somewhat bewildered.
People work in the Moore School of Electrical Engineering in Pennsylvania, United States. Women technicians adjust an early computer known as the Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer, also known as ENIAC. They talk while working. A woman technician at the controls and another woman instructs reading from a note book. Women load computer punch cards into card reading machines.
People work in the Moore School of Electrical Engineering in Pennsylvania, United States. Wires come out of a control panel. Numbered Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) of the control panel glow. Technicians point to the glowing LEDs. A woman technician looks at a machine. A woman near a printing machine. She detaches a paper and takes it away.
Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, United States. John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert stand and talk in front of the Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer, also known as ENIAC, their invention. A woman technician hands over paper results. Readings are taken from a meter on the control panel of the early computer (the first electronic, general purpose, programmable digital computer). A technician attaches equipment to a control panel. A woman works on a terminal interface while a man checks results using an abacus. Numbers are observed as they light on a display.
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