Scenes of rural Cuba. Men on horses accompany others leading laden pack animals. They move along a dirt path, past rural huts with thatch roofs. One man on horseback, smokes a cigar and carrys a goat. Two little girls watch from their back yard. A man climbs up a large tall palm tree,and slides back down rapidly, using rope as an aid. A woman poses smiling, with two baby girls in her arms. Group of children chew on sugar cane.
A man smiles. An Afro-Cuban woman dances to the beat of drums in front of a thatched roof building. Villagers and visitors, including children,watch. Several Afro-Cuban young men pose with a variety of drums. One holds a metal device with two blades ( home made clavés?) They play and a man joins the woman in dancing. A boy in background, watching, puts on a hat and holds a lunch pail over his arm. (Note: Reportedly this is rare footage showing Yuka dancing, the precursor to modern Rhumba styles, and one of the many prototype couple dances in the Americas, similar to batuque, for example, in Brazil). It features the 3-part yuka drum ensemble, and an African-derived double bell.)
A man shows satellite weather details on a computer monitor. High waves around a bridge. A tornado progressing and hitting houses. Animation of a satellite above the earth. Animation of map of earth marked with changing coverage areas of satellite as it circles the earth. Views of Hurricane being tracked by satellite images. A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter rescuing some boaters. Piedmont Boeing 737 aircraft in flight. Cargo ship in harbor. Engineers preparing satellite. Space Shuttle, in orbit with open cargo bay.
Original design document of the DC-3. View of a Douglas DC-3 suspended from the ceiling of the Smithsonian Air and Space museum in Washington, DC. View of DC-3 plane taking off and in flight. 'Bonanza' written on the plane. Historic views of military use of the DC-3 over the years, including use in WWII for dropping paratroops, for carrying cargo, such as the Berlin Airlift, and as a gunship in the Vietnam War. Personnel inside a C-47 "Gooney Bird" operating M134 rotary-barreled machine gun miniguns. A newspaper headline reads 'US Depends on Air to Ship Berlin Freight' referring to use of the aircraft in the Berlin Airlift. Interior view of the DC-3 as a luxury passenger aircraft, circa 1939. Discussion with a current executive of the McDonnell Douglas aircraft Company, Michael Burch. Scenes of DC-3 aircraft being manufactured by war production workers in large factory plants during World War 2 era. Various scenes of vintage DC-3 aircraft, crews, passengers, DC-3 at airports, and interior and exterior views over the years. A DC-3 passenger airplane at a commercial airport taxis on a runway.
Earthquake damaged buildings are demolished in Mexico. Women washing clothes and bathing children on side of a road. Tents around road. View of a city showing damaged houses in between erect buildings. Model of a building. An earthquake victim taken on stretcher. Healthy babies with their mothers. A child suffers injuries. A women is taken out of a earthquake hit house. Rescue operations at fallen buildings. Animation of people trapped at various sites in the building. People in a meeting. Dough Jewett, an United States Rescue Expert speaks. Remains of a fallen building. A victim is treated. A child in a nurse's arms.
A doctor checks eyes of a woman. A man addresses a press conference. Cameraman recording the proceedings. Another person speaks in the conference. Animation of structure of eye and two spots marked on it. View of a a laser beam for the eye, for medical purposes. Another man speaks in the conference. Journalists take down notes and cameramen record the conference proceedings. Narrator references Macular Degeneration.
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