Professor Pierre Joliot tests uranium disintegration in Columbia University, New York. Joliot uses Geiger-Muller counter and notes down the readings. He controls the voltage. Joliot uses Geiger-Muller counter with a standard uranium source as placed on GM tube and take it off. A voltage control equipment is shown.
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.
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.
37th anniversary of Soviet Army and Navy celebrated on February 22nd at Central Soviet Army theater in Moscow. Exterior of 2nd Soviet Army theater. Soviet Army and Navy Marshals, Generals and Admirals attend this event and are seated in the theater. Presiding committee include Nikolai Bulganin, Nikita Khrushchev , Marshal Vasilevsky and other ministers. The meeting is opened by USSR Defense Minister, Marshal Georgy Zhukov, who congratulates Soviet Army and Navy on their 37th anniversary. Soviet Army and Navy were established by Congress party. The audience applaud. Speeches of Secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the communist party, Ivan Marchenko; by the Secretary of the Central Committee of the Young Communist League, and by Hero of Socialist Labor and chairman of the Lenin Collective Farm, Ivan Yubanov. At the end of the event, Marshal Zhukov delivers thanksgiving speech.
People dance in a terrace room of Grossinger's Catskill Resort Hotel in Liberty, New York. Views of people dancing rhumba in pairs. A man and a woman talk. A Rumba band plays musical instruments and one performer sings on a mike. Views of people drinking at a table and talking.
A bar in Grossinger's Catskill Resort Hotel (Grossinger Golf Course Liberty, New York, 12754 United States) in Liberty, New York. A man and a woman talk at table. Views of two old women talking. Bartenders prepare and serve drinks. People at the bar. The bar patrons drink, smoke and talk.
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