Temporary census workers (enumerators) taking an oath not to disclose any information they collect. Line printer with an early computer producing many sheets of census data. Examples of data captured are illustrated: View of a machinist at work; parents and children at a picnic, sitting at a picnic table in a park; a city neighborhood of homes and townhouses and brownstones and an African American boy playing on a city neighborhood sidewalk. Back in the Bureau of the Census, a high speed printer produces confidential lists with categories of data. View of a person completing a census questionnaire. View of the U.S. Capitol. Animated map of the U.S.A. showing changes in Congressional seats resulting from the 1970 census. View of the U.S. Constitution highlighting the part calling for a decennial census. View of early computer at Census Administration and a Honeywell tape drive. A Cartoon illustrations of data groupings possible from census data.
United Airlines DC-3 Mainliner aircraft lands and taxis to the airfield ramp,at Oakland, California. U.S. military and civilian officials, and newsmen gather around the airplane as its doors open. A crowd of spectators and well-wishers fill an area at the airfield terminal. Closeup of three Soviet flyers, standing and waving from the top of stairs at the plane's door. They are Pilot Valery Chkalov; Co-pilot Georgy Baydukov and Navigator Alexander Belyakov. They left Moscow, Russia, June 18, 1937 in a single-engine Soviet Tupolev ANT-25 aircraft on a flight over the North Pole and finally landed after 63 hours and 25 minutes, at. the U.S. Army Pearson Field in Fort Vancouver Barracks (Washington State, USA). Scene shifts to Pearson Field, where their airplane is being prepared for shipment back to Russia. U.S. Army soldiers package up recording instruments preserving evidence of the flight necessary to document their accomplishment. They remove and package loose articles, such as parachutes. View of the airplane being completely covered in protective tarp wrappings.
International Track and Field event in Chicago, Illinois. A large crowd of spectators gathered for the International Track and Field event between the USA and Poland. A 110 meter hurdle race. American athletes Hayes Jones and Jerry Tarr participate. Spectators cheer the players. The 200 meter race begins. American athlete Al Oerter sets a new world record in discus throw.
Sesquicentennial anniversary of Washington DC. The statue of Governor of the District of Columbia Alexander Robey ("Boss") Shepherd. Tree lined avenues and parks. The Library of Congress in Washington DC. A bronze fountain of the Court of Neptune (101 Independence Ave SE, Washington, DC 20540, USA) at the entrance to the landmark Library of Congress.
View of the Folger Library on Capitol Hill and Library of Congress Annex buildings (101 Independence Ave SE, Washington, DC 20540, USA). Cars ford Rock Creek in Rock Creek Park. Picnics in Rock Creek Park. Children on stream bank and on swings at Rock Creek Park Picnic tables at Hains Point. Golf course at Hains Point. Cars parked in parking Hains Point lots. Men fish from the bank of the Potomac River.
U.S. Army firing battlefield missiles at test sites in the U.S.A. An Army Dart Missile is seen on launch stand as the film begins. It is fired and speeds low over the ground until it strikes a building target which it destroys in smoke filled explosion. Next, its later replacement, an SS-10 missile is seen on a simple launching pad in a field. It launches and flies swiftly to destroy a target tank. A Corporal missile (nuclear capable) is seen being trucked to a site at a test location. Soldier at a battlefield position remotely manipulates the Corporal missile, raising it upright to a launching position. View from a distance of the missile firing and disappearing in the clouds. View of a launching gantry, with a Sergeant missile standing upright in it. It fires and climbs out of sight.
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