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Admiral Richard E. Byrd makes a photographic survey of Antarctica in his plane.
Relates to the U.S. Antarctic expedition,Operation High Jump. Show USS Pine Island (AV-12) and its crew. A PBM-5 Mariner takes off to map the Phantom coast in Antarctica. Shows Admiral Richard E. Byrd's plane in flight above Antarctica. Photographic survey of Antarctica is made. Valuable data is recorded. Byrd's plane falls short of fuel and loses altitude rapidly. Altitude meter shows a rapid drop in the altitude. Extra weight is dumped from the plane. Byrd's plane manages to land successfully.
Ronald Reagan and Walt Disney at 1955 Disneyland opening ceremonies; and scenes from 35th Anniversary of Disneyland in 1990.
Circa-1990 aerial flyover of Disneyland, in Anaheim, California, followed by brief vintage footage of Walt Disney in an office in 1955, introducing Disneyland and showing a giant map of the theme park on his wall. Shots of July 1955 opening ceremony are presented along with shots of the Disneyland 35th anniversary celebration. Ronald Reagan is seen at both events. President Ronald Reagan in 1990 seen congratulating the park on it anniversary. Then a flashback shot to 1955, with Hollywood star actor Ronald Reagan leaning over a balcony of Main Street in Disneyland and talking about the opening celebration. Cutting back to 1990, Roy E. Disney is seen unveiling a plaque at the anniversary celebration. Scene shifts back to 1955, with Walt Disney welcoming visitors to Disneyland during its opening celebration, and a view of a plaque unveiled at the park's opening. In 1990 footage, Roy Disney notes that no one except Walt could have predicted the success of Disneyland. Views of visitors at contemporary Disneyland enjoying a teacup ride and on the Splash Mountain log flume ride, followed by scenes with colored confetti falling at the 35th anniversary celebration.
Two men duck hunting shoot birds in the United States.
A film about uses and importance of weapons since old times in the United States. An enactment shows two men carrying rifles. A hunter uses a duck call sound to call birds. Birds in flight. Men fire rifles to shoot the ducks. Men fire rifles from bushes. A hunter retrieves a duck in shallow water. Another hunter carries two ducks across a field.
Early Warning Squadron Four takes off for a reconnaissance flight in the United States.
The role of Airborne Early Warning Squadron Four in the United States. A sign on a building reads 'US Fleet Weather Central'. Men work inside a room. Aircraft of the Airborne Early Warning Squadron Four in a hangar. U.S. Navy P-2 Neptune aircraft takes off. Technicians at controls. A teletype machine. Records being analyzed. Technicians work on a weather map. Teletype message sent to the Reconnaissance Squadron. Alert sounded. Crew members briefed about the reconnaissance mission. An aerologist briefs them about the direction of the storm. Survival gear checked and laid out. Crew members board the aircraft and it take off. A radio operator at work. The navigator works on the course of the aircraft. The aerologist aboard an airborne aircraft looks at the weather conditions.
Atomic energy used for various purposes at first atomic industrial electric station in Russia.
Two man stand on reactor. Hook lower down. Pipelines attached at reactor. Men go outside the room. Sound and light signal work. A man observes. Channel shifted to storage tank. Fixes the channel with the help of a special device. Channel is immersed in tank. New channel is installed in reactor, in place of removed one. Turbo generator and needle of a meter. Sub station, utility supplier and electric Poles. A woman works on a machine. A woman milks cow. Russian newspaper.
United States Army soldiers use sound deception to deceive the German in Film 'Sonic Deception'.
Film 'Sonic Deception' shows the use of sounds to deceive the enemy (sometimes described as the "Ghost Army" in World War 2). Dramatization shows United States troops crossing river in small boats and arriving on beach. They establish beachhead on river bank and defeat German troops located there, having arrived by suprise. Film recounts through actors how a German spy at a German army corps headquarters informs about the presence of United States tanks and trucks. Film demonstrates how sound recordings were used by U.S. soldiers to create false impression of troop activities including bridge building and tank and vehicle movements, in order to serve as a decoy and mislead Germany enemy forces about U.S. Army activities. Dramatization shows German officials consulting and looking at maps. German soldier looks through binoculars and informs officials through phone. Tanks cross a bridge and artillery on field. Actual scenes of front gate of Army Experimental Center station headquarters at Pine Camp in Great Bend, New York (upper New York State). U.S. Army soldiers are shown recording via microphone the sounds of actual bridge construction at the center. The microphone routes to a recording truck where a turntable for pressing recordings is running, creating a phonograph recording of the bridge building decoy sounds. Recording of other sounds is shown, including sound of a bulldozer at work, sounds of men unloading trucks, and sounds of tanks crossing a bridge. Soldier is seen selecting a phonograph record from the Army Experimental Station Library.
