The May Day Parade in New York, United States. A large crowd parades. They hold boards and banners. Buildings in the background. Aerial view of the crowd gathered for the parade.
Demonstrations by the U.S. Navy in the Pacific Ocean. Aerial torpedoes are demonstrated in sham battle trials. An aircraft in flight. Aerial view of the ocean. The aircraft drops automatically propelled shells. Splashes in water.
A film titled 'The John Glenn Story' on the life of American astronaut John Herschel Glenn Jr. He was the first American to orbit the earth in 1962. U.S. President John F Kennedy seated at a desk in his office. He says that John Glenn "is an inspiration to all Americans." A radar locates an aircraft. View from cockpit or gun camera of a U.S. aircraft firing on a Soviet MiG-15 or MiG-17aircraft in flight. An American F-86 aircraft spinning. The launch of a NASA rocket. Point of view from a moving car driving through New Concord, Ohio. Aerial view suburban houses of New Concord. Boy throws rocks into pond and runs through field. Boy running under bridge and looking through stone foundation. Boy riding a bike. Boy running through field with arms outstretched as if flying. Boy waving to train pulled by diesel electric locomotive as train runs by New Concord railroad station. Mayor Taylor of New Concord Ohio speaks about John Glenn. External view New Concord High School. Teach Harvard Steele speaks about John Glenn. External view of newly constructed John Glenn High School. First graduates of John Glenn High School during graduation ceremony. View of Glenn Plumbing building in New Concord. Muskingum College in New Concord Ohio. Shots of high school age teenage boys playing football, basketball in a gymnasium, track, and baseball. Young men do calisthenics while Muskingum coach Ed Sherman speaks about John Glenn's athletic accomplishments. Students sit on bench at Muskingum College and talk about John Glenn.
A film on the life of American astronaut John Herschel Glenn Jr. He was the first American to orbit the earth in 1962. Aerial view of a church in Ohio, United States. A man stands on the steps of the church. A young boy stands nearby. The man talks about John. Interior of the church. Men and women sing hymns. Other people seated. John and Annie were married in this church. The minister talks about the couple. Exterior of a house. Annie's parents speak about them. John Glenn's home. His parents talk about him. An aircraft taxis at an air base. Glenn's trainer talks.
Film that illustrates the kind of aviation training and early career experiences of American Astronaut John Glenn. Narrator discusses this throughout, but there are no images of John Glenn, himself in the film, which begins showing a formation of North American T-28 training planes from the U.S. Navy flight school at Pensacola, Florida, flying over water. Closeup of one doing a roll. Glimpse of instructor discussing Navy Mark 8-A Weems navigational computer in a classroom.. Cadets at Corpus Christi, Texas, in Altitude Chamber experiencing the effects of high altitude flight and learning about their individual symptoms of hypoxia onset. A cadet in the cockpit of an airplane as instructor standing on its wing points out features of the aircraft controls. A cadet using a sextant to shoot sun lines in daylight. Cadets engaged in calisthenics, and playing volley ball on a court set up on a flight line. A line of Navy Douglas AD Skyraider aircraft, with folded wings are parked in the near background. Cadets in dress whites leave a chapel following a service. Graduation parade and exercises in which the cadets are awarded their Navy wings of gold. A formation of four Navy Grumman F9F/F-9 Cougar aircraft in formation, viewed from above. Closeup of pilots in several parked Vought F4U Corsair aircraft, followed by Formation of several in the air ostensibly blasting enemy targets below, raising white smoke. A U.S. Navy Lockheed T-2V Seastar jet training aircraft performing a roll in flight at high altitude with condensation trails visible behind its wingtip tanks. Brief views of air combat during the korean War. Navy Vought F8U supersonic Crusader aircraft in flight. An X-15 aircraft being dropped from underneath a U.S. Air Force B-52 jet bomber. It rockets away rapidly from the Bomber.
A film on the life of American astronaut John Herschel Glenn Jr. He was the first American to orbit the earth in 1962. Unmanned experimental flights. Launch of a spacecraft. Astronauts at work. Training of the astronauts. American astronaut Alan Shepard in a spacecraft. The Mercury-Atlas 6 mission underway. Men work on a spacecraft. Preparation for the launch of the spacecraft at Cape Canaveral in Florida. The spacecraft on a launch pad. Astronauts prepare for the spaceflight. Men at work in a building. The Mercury-Atlas 6 Friendship 7 spacecraft is ready to be launched. John Glenn prepares for the flight. The spacecraft on a launch pad. A U.S. flag on the spacecraft. Glenn takes his position in Friendship 7. The countdown begins. People gather and look at the spacecraft. Glenn in the spacecraft. The spacecraft is launched. Vapors rise from the bottom of the spacecraft at liftoff. It ascends towards the sky. Technicians establish contact with Glenn. Views of mission control stations and countdown clocks. United States Air Force missile range instrumentation ship Rose Knot underway as it follows the course of the spacecraft.
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