A new F-86 Sabrejet is launched in the United States. The test flight of the Sabre jet. The jet is parked at an air base. The jet takes off and is in flight. A pilot in the cockpit. The jet fires rockets. A targeted aircraft on the ground explodes. Smoke arises from bombardment.
A film on the importance of photographic reconnaissance in the United States. A U.S. Navy North American F9F aircraft parked at an air base. Two K-17 cameras are loaded in the airplane. A pilot in cockpit. Aerial view of the F9F Panther airplane in flight. The pilot looks at a target area on a map. The aircraft flying over the target area. Aerial view of the target area. The pilot takes photographs of the target area. Officers seated at a desk in an office. They look at pictures. The pilot stands nearby. An officer points out mistakes in the photography. The pilot in the cockpit of the F9F Panther and view of the F9F cockpit controls as the airplane is flying over the target area which is a dam complex. Aerial view of the target area. He takes photographs. An officer looks at the pictures. View of three North American F9F Panther aircraft flying in formation overhead.
A film on the importance of photographic reconnaissance. A U.S. Navy pilot plays table tennis with other man. A friend of the pilot arrives and says that they would be going to Korea together for a mission. A Grumman F9F Panther aircraft takes off from the flight deck of an aircraft carrier in the Pacific Ocean. A crew seated in a briefing room. An officer briefs them. The pilot is not sent to the mission. Men standing along the sides of the aircraft carrier. Another F9F aircraft takes off from the carrier. The pilot looks at the aircraft. The aircraft flying in formation.
Lifestyle of British people in early 1950s. Group of British coal miners. Several British businessmen. British residential neighborhoods post World War 2 both in cities and in outlying neighborhoods. British working men in hats and coats walking to or from work. Well-to-do neighborhood. Factory workers producing heavy equipment. British Automobile manufacturing factory with workers assembling cars. A Bentley automobile being loaded on a ship. Two U.S. Airmen sightseeing in London view traffic on streets with cars and lorries, double-decker buses, and pedestrians. View of diverse British workers, both men and women, walking on a bridge to or from work as double decker buses and other vehicles pass by on the road.
Home life of British steel worker. The man is gardening. His wife comes out of their house and talks to him. The man and woman enter the house. The man seated with his family at dinner. A photograph of the man's nephew, who is a soldier in Malaya. British soldiers in Malaya line up and receive their pay at a pay window. U.S. airmen, stationed in Britain, receiving their pay in pounds, Sterling. U.S. soldiers shopping in the UK.
In a training film for American airmen in the early 1950s, actor Larry Hagman plays role of a U.S. Airman being entertained as guest in a British home, where differences in daily life are discussed. British family seated in living room and having tea with the American military airman, and tending a fireplace. Examples of notable British manufacturing. A British Canberra jet bomber taking off. A class A4 streamlined 4-6-2 British steam locomotive, bearing British Railways number 60027 (Named Kingfisher and built at Doncaster Works). Pistons moving on large British marine engine. Fabric printing and manufacture.