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Dr. Leo Szilard and Dr. George Pegram appear in moving picture at Physics Laboratory in Columbia University
At start, film shows Dr. Leo Szilard (inventor of the cyclotron) standing in front of a cyclotron in the Pepin Physics Laboratory of Columbia University. He is studying some documented research results. Dr. George Pegram, Chairman of Columbia's Physics Department, enters and converses with Szilard. They review the research data together. Pegram leaves, and Szilard continues to review data. He holds a stop watch and enters some numbers in his journal. Dr. Pegram returns and they again look at the data. Closeup of the two reviewing data and conversing. Repeat of Szilard with stop watch, entering data. Closeups of Szilard speaking to Pegram (unseen). Closeup of Dr. Pegram, talking about the research results. (These repeated scenes are obviously retakes.) Closeup of Szilard's hand starting a stopwatch. Horizontal line and brief vertical lines also displayed on an oscilloscope.
George Pegram calls navy department on a phone and a scientist leaves an office in Columbia University, New York.
Dr. George Pegram explains the military possibilities of uranium fission in Columbia University in New York. He calls navy department on phone telling them that Dr. Fermi will call on them to explain the military possibilities of uranium fission. Views of a telephone. Studio reenactment : (Navy Commander Office) Scientist leaves the office after an interview with a commander and a Lieutenant. The navy commander thanks the scientist and asks that be kept informed. View of the scientist. The navy commander says good day to the scientist.
British war brides aboard the liner Argentina as they come home to New York, United States.
British wives of U.S. soldiers arrive in United States. USS Argentina. Women aboard the ocean liner talk. Nurses tend the children. Children play in a nursery aboard the ship. Ship arrives at port of New York. Women debark with children. Relatives and husbands of women welcome them. Men and women embrace and kiss. Man holds a child. A child cries.
Men seated around a table dip donuts in coffee cups and eat during the Donut Dunking Week in New York.
People eat donuts during the Donut Dunking Week in New York. Men seated around a table dip donuts in coffee and eat. A man grabs and eats a doughnut. Another man eats donuts with both hands. One man tries to eat his donut suspended from a string like a tea bag. Another man comically guards his donut from prying hands and eyes as he eats it.
A German V-2 rocket is transported to a firing range on a trailer truck driving along a highway in New Mexico.
A German V-2 rocket is launched and tested at the White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico. The V-2 is transported to the firing range on a trailer truck driving along a highway. Mountains in the background.
An unassembled power unit of a German V-2 rocket at the White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico.
A German V-2 rocket power unit at the White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico. The power unit of the V-2 rocket in unassembled or in breakdown condition.