Training of a chimpanzee during NASA Project Mercury preparations at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, United States. A chimpanzee rides a rocket sled on a track. Men walk along the side of the track. Buildings in the background. Technicians check the chimp (not seen) after the rocket sled test.
A film titled 'Roving Eye Rescue' on rescue work by the United States Coast Guard. A man stands near an aircraft in the United States. 'Coast guard' written on a side of the aircraft. The man does a preflight inspection. The man boards the aircraft.
A film on rescue work by the U.S. Coast Guard. A ship underway in the Atlantic Ocean. The bow of the ship. A man and a woman aboard the ship. A man at the controls of the ship. Other boats and ships underway. The woman gets injured. The man at the controls establishes a contact with a U.S. Coast Guard aircraft for help. The aircraft in flight overhead. A man gives a red flare signal to the aircraft. The aircraft in flight over the ship. A man presses a button of a rescue alarm and alerts Coast Guard crew. Coast Guard crew board a helicopter. They inspect the helicopter. The helicopter takes off and is in flight. The helicopter hovers over the ship. A line is dropped from the helicopter to the ship. A stretcher is dropped with the help of the line. A man places the injured woman on the stretcher and she is taken aboard the helicopter. The helicopter in flight. It lands. The woman is taken out from the helicopter and is placed in an ambulance. The ambulance leaves the area. The helicopter in flight overhead.
Jimmy Rushing in Germany. Swing jazz singer Jimmy Rushing performs with his band on a stage. Jimmy Rushing singing. A man at a piano. A girl smiling among the audience. Jimmy Rushing singing into a microphone. Another girl among the audience. Dicky Wells playing a trombone behind Jimmy Rushing. Buck Clayton playing a trumpet comes in front of the microphone. Other musicians playing instruments behind trumpeter Buck Clayton. Jimmy Rushing standing besidehim. A musician playing a double bass.
Dizzy Gillespie in Germany. Dizzy Gillespie, and his quintet, on a stage. Dizzy Gillespie, an American singer and a jazz trumpeter, performing with a trumpet on the stage. Musicians playing drums and double bass behind Gillespie. A man playing a saxophone beside him. Dizzy Gillespie on the stage. View of the audience. Gillespie playing the trumpet. Musicians playing piano, double bass and drums behind him. The audience applauding. Dizzy Gillespie speaking into a microphone. A man playing a flute. Views of a boy, girls and a man among the audience. Several views of the flutist and the musicians behind Gillespie playing their instruments. The audience applaud at the end of the flutist's performance. The flutist smiles at the audience and the musicians and shakes hands with the pianist. Dizzy Gillespie applauds and approaches the flutist. Note: Of music played, the ffrst tune is "Tequila". Second Tune is "Autumn Leaves" (J.Kosma)(Les Feuilles Mortes in French). Leo Wright is the flutist.
A jazz performance in Germany. Performance by the Modern Jazz Quartet. Seen are: Milt Jackson (vibraphone); John Lewis (piano); Percy Heath (Bass); and Connie Kay (drums).Views of audience, some tapping in rhythm.