The first public showing of an X-15 rocket powered aircraft at the NAA (North American Aviation) facility in Los Angeles, California. Motion picture cameramen take pictures. Various personnel sit down. U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon speaks. The X-15 is towed out of a hangar by a tug. The Vice President shakes hands and talks to personnel while looking at the parked X-15.
Modern new office building architecture in the United States in the late 1950s. Building of the Hewlett Packard Corporation at Stanford Industrial Park (later renamed Stanford Research Park) in Palo Alto, California, at the time of the birth of Silicon Valley. 1950s cars of Hewlett Packard (HP) workers in the parking lot. Exterior views of Hewlett Packard company buildings. A truck driven past the plant. A tile wall at the facility. Inside a building: View of a Hewlett Packard oscilloscope. Number "75452" seen in upper left of unit. Behind the unit is seen a production plant floor with women and men technicians building HP electronic equipment. Wider view of the production and assembly floor. A woman worker poses with a circuit board in her hands. Camera pans up to show her. Large painted abstract colors and artwork on walls of the production plant. The woman who had held the circuit board turns away and is seen operating a piece of equipment. Another view of the plant or factory floor with workers. Exterior view of a forklift loading boxes, with HP logo visible on them, into back of a waiting truck. Scene changes to exterior views of what appears to be a part of the General Motors Technical Center in Warren, Michigan: A surface parking lot filled with employee 1950s cars, a sloped berm up to office buildings, including a brick laboratory building with vertical fins, pedestrian approaches, and landscaped plazas. Additional shots show other modern corporate or institutional research buildings of similar mid-century American architectural style; exact locations unidentified. One of these mid 1950s U.S. buildings shows a General Electric (GE) logo.
Army Material Command (AMC) logistic support of United States Air Force Snark missile project in United States. Aerial view of the Edwards Air Force Base. A U.S. officer seated in his office talks on a phone. A Snark missile on a launcher is taken to a launchpad.
F-104 Starfighter of the U.S. Air Force at Edwards Air Force Base in United States. Two F-104s make a low pass over Edwards Air Force Base. Contrail left out by them. Insignia of United States. The planes in flight. F-104s invisible after a while.