Pan American Highway Commission delegates visit sites in Minnesota. View of world's largest open-pit iron ore mines in Hibbing Minnesota. Giant steam shovels,mining train, railroad tracks are seen. View from high up in Duluth looking down at Lake Superior. View of freighter in Lake Superior just off the shore at Duluth. Loading of iron ore into hull of the iron ore carrying freighter "General Orlando M. Poe" at dock in Duluth. Train cars carrying ore sit atop a bridge over a pier in the water. Ore seen sliding down chutes from the railcars into the waiting freighter. Views of Duluth's Aerial Bridge (an Aerial Transporter Bridge) in action spanning the sandbar known as Minnesota Point (or Park Point), as designed by Thomas McGilvray. This is the bridge before its redesign as an Aerial Lift Bridge. The Bridge's Gondola is seen moving from one side to the other.
View of vehicles being loaded via rear loading ramp, on YC-97. Technicians configure the YC-97 for troops and passengers. (World War II period)
Officials and visitors place wreaths at the marble memorial marking the grave of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in the rose garden of his home, Springwood, in Hyde Park, New York. Cars carrying the visitors drive up to the main house. Several views of Springwood.
Three Curtiss N-9 Training Seaplanes, ostensibly piloted by student aviators, take off from waterfront at Pensacola, Florida, carrying a news photographer with them. View from rear cockpit of airplane tail and wake in the water as one of the planes commences takeoff. Brief glimpse of a Vought Corsair I (O2U) seaplane atop the Battleship USS Colorado (BB-45) and after it has been lowered to the water at the battleship's stern. Several Navy biplanes landing on the USS Langley (CV-1) as she is underway. A flight of Loening OL-5 amphibian aircraft, as viewed past the tail of one of them, in flight. Fifteen U.S. Navy biplanes flying in formation. A Consolidated P2Y-1 Ranger seaplane taking off from water past an Omaha-class light cruiser. Illustrated map of Hawaii showing location is relation to surrounding major land masses.
Opening scene shows a piece of fine wire as seen under a microscope. Holes that have been drilled in the wire are visible. Two technicians are hunched over a microscope examining a miniature metal part. Closeup of tiny precision machine tools being used in a grinding operation. Technician holds a small slab of metallic material and tests a tiny drill on it. Then he secures a thin piece of material with a frame, adjusts the precision lathe, and drills a hole. Next are several microscopic views showing fine wires threaded through holes in a slightly larger one. Views of the tiny object being fabricated. Technician holds it with tiny tweezers.
Opening scene shows a 1954 Pontiac VIP staff car, displaying 4-stars on its bumper plate. It is parked on a wharf next to the nuclear submarine, USS Nautilus (not seen).Admiral Robert B. Carney, Chief of Naval Operations, and Admiral William Fechteler, former CNO step from the car. Next, Admiral Carney is seen below decks on the Nautilus, making a selection on a juke box installed in one of the boat's compartments. Glimpse of officers standing on the foredeck as the Nautilus makes way on the surface. Admiral Fechteler, at the helm and Admiral Carney, seated next to him. The admirals and ships officers watching sailors at the helm. Momentary glimpse of Admiral Carney at the juke box. Crew members eating in the sailors mess. Officer briefing the admirals at the helmsman's station. Crew members, in cold weather gear, descending stairs inside the Nautilus. The boat making way in calm waters, with several crew standing on deck. A sailor wearing headphones and communications gear. The admirals saluting as they arrive on the Nautilus.
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