Testing of small scale models for Project Orion, which is the study of a method for propelling multi-ton vehicles into space by a series of nuclear detonations, called nuclear pulse propulsion. A successful six-shot flight test of a Project Orion model is seen.
A film titled 'Boys dig up pot of gold'. View of the three story row house at 132 S. Eden Street in Baltimore, Maryland. View of a basement window on the building. View inside an office of two teenage boys, Theodore Jones and Henry Grob, standing in front of a desk covered by gold coins they discovered when digging a hole in the basement of the Eden Street building in August 1934. Close-up view of the gold coins and the degraded metal can that had held them when they discovered it underground. (Their discovery yielded 3,558 gold coins dating from the 1830s-1850s, with a face value of $11,200.) Henry Grob speaks and says, "I'm glad tthat the decision of Judge O'Dunne (Judge Eugene O'Dunne) was in our favor, because now I can complete my education, buy my mother a home, and help others in my family who are in need." Theodore Jones then adds, "That's a swell idea. I think I'll do the same." Close-up view of hands of a man picking up a number of the coins.
A preacher Elder Michaux leads his people in song they sing. People clap and sing. Elder Michaux describes his view of paradise.
Group of Sharecropper farmers enters church in a rural town. View of church bell beside a simple, small wooden church building. Scenes of the church parisioners entering and leaving the church. Interiors of the church. Men and women seated. Preacher reads and speaks to congregation. Men and women listen to preacher and stand.
Congregation of sharecropper farmers sings "What a friend we have in Jesus" in a church. Sharecroppers seated and listen to Preacher. They stand.
Camera pans over still images of late 19th and early 20th Century immigrants to America. One group photo shows men standing around women seated. Voice of an old man, from Liverpool England, narrates as camera shows more views of immigrant families. Scene shifts to that man speaking of the hardships and poverty of immigrants he witnessed passing through the port of Liverpool, England.
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