Lord Halifax speaks over a microphone. Edgar Kaiser and Lord and Lady Halifax on platform. Lady Halifax christens ship and ship leaves ways. Ship goes down ways. Ship dead in water. Lord and Lady Halifax and women attendant on platform. Ship dead in water and tugboats approach. Bow view of ship on ways.
Bow of ship. Lord and Lady Halifax sponsoring party on platform on launch of USS Natoma Bay (CVE-62). A man speaking on microphone. Spectators assembled at the party. Lord Halifax speaks at microphone. Lady Halifax near the microphone. Woman hands flower to Lady Halifax and crowd applauds. Lady Halifax cracks bottle and ship leaves ways.
A woman of the U.S. Navy WAVES program ("Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service") operating motion picture projectors in a projection booth, during World War 2. She wears a short-sleeve white shirtwaist and black seaman's tie pushed back on each side. she watches the screen (unseen) while monitoring the projectors. The sequence is interrupted. It picks up again as she is seen threading the film on a motion picture film projector and starting it
View from a height, of a Petroleum facility construction project underway. A crawler-Mounted Latticework Boom Crane on the site. Steel framing erected in places and pre-fabricated tanks of various sizes and configurations on the site. Workers digging with shovels in a waist-deep earthen hole. welders at work on large size piping. A man turning a large valve control. Workers moving through a labyrinth of pipes and valves. Tall fractionating columns.
Fifteen members of large Brockmiller family work in war production industry as ship builders at Kaiser Shipyards on the Pacific West Coast of the United States during World War 2. Wide view of war production workers busy at Kaiser Shipyards, building warships. Workers line up at pay booth to receive pay. A woman worker operating a blowtorch and then opening her protective face shield when done. The members of the family gathered at dining table eating food. Whole family including grandchildren seen together.
United States Navy cadets in the Naval Aviation program are seen in a 6 mile cross-country race during their basic training. U.S. Navy cadets run up hillsides, across waterways, and swim in larger water during the race.1,600 cadets seen racing for the endurance and fitness test.
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