Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, Arizona as seen from an airplane at low altitude. Tall shadows of the rocks.
An aircraft refueling truck before a flight.. Aerial views. Dry hilly terrain in desert Southwest. Uneven land. A few farms and grassy patches. A river flows by. Greenery on either side of the river. Large areas of red sandstone eroded in various shapes Meandering river.
Views of red sandstone mountains and outcroppings from low flying airplane, in Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, Arizona. Dry rocky terrain. Shadows cast on the ground. Bright sun. Shrubs on the dry land. Big Red Rocks. Monument Valley road through the desert.
Opening scene shows a C-130 aircraft on final approach, and about to land on an airfield, at dusk. Next, a MAC Lockheed C-141 Starlifter aircraft is seen flying over a body of water. Its tail number is 63-8075. (Nicknamed "Petunia Pig," it was flown in accelerated operations beginning in 1964, and eventually logging about 15 hours a day in regular service, to provide the Air Force advance information about the operational capabilities of this type aircraft.) The next airplane shown is a MAC Lockheed C-5 Galaxy, about to land. Its unique 28-wheel landing gear is clearly visible as it approaches and touches down. Scene shifts to the MAC Command and Control Center, at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, where Air Force controllers are monitoring MAC worldwide operations. The wall in the background is covered by a map of the world showing numerous MAC air routes. A civilian narrator speaks about the Military Airlift Command. Camera pans over the Command Center wall map, showing North and South America and associated MAC routes and then across the Atlantic to Europe and Africa. Bucolic scenes of farmland and fields in the vicinity of Scott Air Force Base, Illinois. Next, three large jet transport aircraft are seen on an airfield ramp. Suddenly, one explodes and is destroyed in fire and smoke. Rescuers carry and injured person on a stretcher. Another scene shows a bus and cars consumed in flames.
C-5 Galaxy aircraft of the U.S. Air Force Military Airlift Command (MAC) are parked on the ramp at McClellan Air Force Base, California, surrounded by vehicles with various cargoes to be loaded. The fuselage of an F-5E Tiger II fighter jet, with wings folded beside it, is being loaded into one C-5. Glimpse of the loading process, from inside the C-5. Nose of an F-5 disappearing into the cargo compartment. (Narrator states that eight F-5s are loaded into this single C-5.) The loaded C-5 taking off toward the camera. View of a C-5 during in-flight refueling. View inside the cockpit, of pilots at the controls and of the refueling probe from the Boeing KC-135 tanker aircraft ahead and above the C-5. A flight engineer at his control station. View of the refueling probe, from the tanker aircraft. View of the aerial refueling from another aircraft, in flight (unseen). Scene shifts to civilian narrator speaking at MAC Headquarters Command Center in Scott Air Force Base, Illinois.
"Abstract in Concrete" depicts Times Square at night in New York, with jazz music by Frank Fields. Neon signs. Reflection of neon lights during rainy season. A sign reads 'Admiral Television Appliances'. Water on street and the shadow of the lights. Pedestrians and traffic on the street. A sign highlights 'Chevrolet'. Many neon signs and blending of colors and reflections in water are shown.
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