Recon Marines from 1st Force Reconnaissance Company Test Unit 1 demonstrate free fall parachuting. A sign identifies the Auxiliary Landing Field at Marine Corps Base, Camp Pendleton, California. (Narrator refers to the marines as para-scouts of the 1st Marine Division.) The marines, wearing back and chest parachute packs, board a U.S. Navy Grumman S2F aircraft with tail code "RZ" and number 136777. It taxis on the ramp and is next seen taking off from the runway. Two helicopters are parked on the airfield ramp. Next, viewed from the aircraft, a marine is seen in free fall. Soon he appears as only a speck , approaching the ground. Next, he is seen, from the ground, as his chute finally opens, and he lands, and begins to spill air from his billowing chute on the ground.
George Wilson Malon, Senator of the United States gives a speech in his office in Nevada, United States. He reports to the voters. He talks about the war time excise taxes, live music taxes and their effects on the State of Nevada. He assures the people that he will work to aid the hotel and restaurant industry, and jobs for young people of Nevada.
A civil control defense center and bunker designed to withstand a near direct nuclear blast opens near Wheaton, Illinois, during the Cold War. It is to provide an emergency nerve center for disaster relief work in Chicago, Gary and Hammond. Officers and other men gather outside the building. Heavy stair covering being moved into place over underground access stairs. Charts on a wall in the board room inside the building. Equipment and instruments in the defense center including special air handling equipment and independent power supplies including large battery arrays. View of maps and planning areas, and bunk rooms and supplies that would allow staff to stay underground for an extended period of time in the event of a nuclear bomb attack.
An American college football game between the Air Force Academy Falcons and Stanford in Palo Alto, California. The game underway. A large crowd cheers and applauds. The Air Force Academy cadets watch the game and cheer for their team. The Air Force Academy Falcons hold Stanford scoreless and win the game.
A benefit basketball game between the skilled and comedic Harlem Globetrotters versus Philadelphia Sphas, held at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The Globetrotters put on their hilarious show. Meadowlark Lemon and Wilt Chamberlain break up audience with humor during the game that confuses the opposing team and the referees. Roy Campanella, the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team catcher, is seen in the crowd wearing a neck brace while recovering from a car accident. Large crowd of over 18,000 spectators gathers to watch the game.
The launch of the "Golden Age Movie Club" in New York, a new discounted movie theater club for Senior Citizens aged 60 and over. Movie theater business men Schwartz, Stark, and Brandt come out of a building and meet former Vaudeville performing stars Pat Rooney and Bert Wheeler, who are seated side-by-side in the back of an open vehicle. They shake hands and talk amongst themselves. Schwartz hands a Golden Age Movie Pass to Stark. Mr. Schwartz then presents a Golden Age Movie Club card to both seated men. Closeup view of the pass, with membership for people more than 60 years of age depicted on the card. Next scene show "Mary Manning Walsh" written on entry portico outside a senior care Catholic nursing home building. Men and women sit in a hall inside the building, together with a nun of the Carmelite sisters, and they are presented Golden Age Move Club passes. Views of elderly men and women at a movie theater box office. They are greeted by Hollywood actor Donald Crisp who is serving as usher. The patrons enter the movie theater lobby.
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