Command and control center in headquarters of NORAD (North American Air Defense), at Ent Air Force Base, Colorado Springs, Colorado. NORAD Commander, General Laurence S. Kuter, USAF, and NORAD Deputy Commander, Canadian Air Marshal Roy Slemon, Chief of the Canadian Air Staff, step into the Center, to observe activities. Based on teletype messages, U.S. airman marks aircraft positions on plexiglass overlay of NORAD area map. Staff of the center phone information to other elements of NORAD. View of concrete SAGE combat center with staff at large radar monitors. USAF Convair F-102 Delta Dagger aircraft take off on an interception exercise. They are seen at altitude, firing air-to-air munitions, under command of the SAGE combat center. A CIM-10 Bomarc surface-to-air missile is raised at a NORAD site and then launched. View inside the underground Command Control Center of the U.S. Strategic Air Command (SAC) at Offutt Air Force Base, near Omaha, Nebraska. Officers oversee the operation. B-47, B-52, and B-58 bombers are seen taking off. A SAC Major General at desk with a "Red Phone" connecting all SAC elements and the White House (shown). Control room of a ballistic missile center. View of SM-65 Atlas intercontinetal ballistic missile on launch pad and then launching. Civil defense officials man phones of national warning system, from NORAD headquarters. The system's links to North American cities shown on map. City street scenes.
Actor Raymond Massey standing in front of color map of North America, speaks about U.S. measures to defend against potential enemy intercontinental ballistic missiles. Aerial view of one of the largest radar antennas in the world being set up in Greenland and Alaska, and another planned for Great Britain, all part of the BMEWS (Ballistic Missile Early Warning System). A teletype machine printing information transmitted by the BMEWS system. View of technicians working in BMEWS communications circuit vault. More views of BMEWS radar antennas. Animated diagram of earth with early warning satellites orbiting to provide instant notice of missile launch. Views of U.S. Army Nike-Hercules missiles being tested, before development of the Nike-Zeus versions.
Assembly line workers in the Ford River Rouge plant attach Ford car body to car chassis. Henry Ford and his son, Edsel Ford, examine a Ford Model 18, with a V8 engine. Next scene is outdoors, with Edsel Ford seated behind the wheel of the one millionth Ford V8 car, a Deluxe Fordor sedan, which rolled off the line on June 20, 1934. Henry Ford and another company official stand beside the sedan. Next scene shows the two millionth 8 cylinder Ford car driving on the road. Prominent Lettering painted on the car identifies it as the 2 millionth Ford V8, a 1935 model 48 sedan. A line of several more 1935 model 48 sedans follow on the road behind it. Final scene shows Edsel Ford and Henry Ford in a 1936 Ford Deluxe Sedan as it is coming off of the final assembly line.
Men install small parts onto flat head V8 engine blocks on Ford assembly line. Men install crank shafts into engine blocks. Worker honing spinning parts on a grind wheel using a file. Man inspecting parts with a microscope. Iron ore lifted out of a ship with cranes. Cranes dumping iron ore in a pile on land. A life saver life ring with the words, 'Henry Ford II Detroit' Man unloading boxes from a truck onto a conveyor belt. Man rolling automotive wheels out of railroad car onto an overhead conveyor system. African-American man pulling flat head V8 engine block pulled off an overhead conveyor and onto a ramp. View of overhead conveyor containing many parts including crank shafts, wheels, and other parts. View of flat head Ford V8 engine blocks and heads on conveyor belt. Man on a train coming out of a coal or ore mine.
Man on Ford tractor driving through field. WS valley with sheep dotting the landscape. Sheep crossing a stream. African-American workers picking cotton in southern U.S. Bag containing cotton seen behind a worker. Goat herd moving out to pasture. Field with many bee hives seen. Bees seen buzzing around a hive. Tractor plowing field. Threshing machine gathering hay from field. Worker carrying hay on pitchfork to cart piled high with hay.
Aerial view of Ford River Rouge plant. Smoke stacks billow steam. Still images of other Ford facilities displayed, including buildings at Buffalo NY, Richmond CA, Somerville Mass, Kansas City MO, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Charlotte NC, Louisville KY, Jacksonville FL, Seattle Wash, Dallas TX, and Long Beach CA.
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