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.
A film titled: 'Flood weather' on the working of weather bureau in the United States. Snow covered area. Mountains in the foreground. The weather bureau gathers information about the weather and gives early warnings to people. A map locates different areas. A member of the weather bureau working to collect the information. He reads and records the information with the help of gauges. A man working with the help of cable and transmitter. The information is recorded for the purpose of providing the same, as and when required. The exterior of a building. A ship underway at sea. Smoke from the stacks of the ship. A map locates different areas.
The working of weather bureau in the United States. View of the harbor and skyline in Saint Louis, Missouri. Buildings in the background. Ships underway at the Mississippi river. Some ships docked at the harbor. Smoke from the stacks of an excursion steamer ship. Scene changes to a steamship on the Ohio River at harbor of Louisville, Kentucky. Change of scene again to skyline of Cincinnati Ohio.
The working of the weather bureau in the United States. The U.S. engineers and members of the weather bureau work in close cooperation for weather forecasting. They coordinate their activities for gathering the data relating to weather. A map locates various places. Animated map depicts the route and the method of their working. A woman talking on phone. The interior of the office of the weather bureau. The employees working in the office. They work for the collection, recording and dissemination of the information. The engineers working near a dam. Men, aboard a special boat working to adjust dam gate settings. They work for the collection of information and weather forecasting as the Ohio River level rises. Smoke from the stacks of the ship anchored nearby. View of the Chris Greene paddle wheel steamboat (sternwheeler) underway near a a dock area on the Ohio River, on route to Cincinnati.
The working of weather bureau in the United States. Snow covered shores of the Potomac River at Great Falls, west of Washington DC, following 15 inch snowfall in February 1936. Two people walking on a high snow covered bluff near the Great Falls. The frozen Potomac River, covered with ice. View of the Memorial Bridge spanning a totally frozen Potomac River, with the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument in the background. Views of the river carrying chunk of snow and ice as a thaw begins the breakup. Man photographs a woman next to a guard rail at the Potomac River, covered in chunks of thawing ice and snow. Frozen ice chunks flowing under the Memorial Bridge. Narrator describes flood beginning with heavy rainwall in Shenandoah River valley on March 17 and March 18, 1936. Scenes of Western Union Telegrams detailing reports of rain in the west from various towns in the Shenandoah foothills. One from Romney , West Virginia notes rainfall of 5 inches.
Damage caused due to flooding of Potomac River near Williamsport, Maryland. Houses and buildings submerged in water. Destroyed buildings. Remains of a segment of a trestle bridge across the Potomac River at Point Of Rocks Maryland, with flood waters all around. Ticker tape warning of the flood is shown running throw a persons hands. Warnings issued by the weather bureau for the people. Members of the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) and others build a sandbag barrier to protect Federal buildings against the impending flood. View of the sandbags being put in place and the Washington Monument in the background. View of high flood waters at Great Falls and along other spots on the Potomac River carrying debris including houses and sheds. A trestle bridge over the water. Several people standing on the bridge as flood waters rip a support from the bridge and water is nearly overtaking the bridge. View on March 19 near the time the water crested at 19 and eight tenths feet at the site of the old Aqueduct Bridge or Aquaduct Bridge (near Key Bridge and Fletchers Boathouse) Industrial buildings flooded on the shores of the Potomac River. (Great Depression period)
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