Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary, Communist Party of the Soviet Union, visits United States and meets with President Richard Nixon. The cottage at Camp David where Brezhnev stayed during his visit. A secret serviceman stands on guard outside the cottage. Trees and pond at Aspen House, the residence of President Richard Nixon at Camp David. Soviet leaders Brezhnev, Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs, Andrei Gromyko and Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin converse while walking towards Aspen House. Brezhnev smokes cigarette and walks inside the Aspen House along with other officials. Gromyko and U.S. Secretary of State, William P. Rogers are seen outside, conversing with Dobrynin
A film titled 'shaft driven motorcycle' depicts features of a new shaft motorcycle. A U.S. soldier takes a test drive at the Holabird Quartermaster Motor Base. The new motorcycle moves on a road. The features of the motorcycle are a drive shaft, a foot accelerator and four forward gears. (World War II period).
A film titled 'Decontamination on Armored Vehicles' shows how to test for the presence of a war gas on an armored vehicle and then shows several decontamination procedures. An aircraft in flight sprays a war gas in World War II. A tank moves on a field. U.S. soldiers carry gas in a tank and attach it to the wing of the aircraft. The aircraft taxis and takes off. The aircraft sprays war gas over an armored vehicle. The tank covered with the war gas. A U.S. soldier wearing a gas mask puts a mustard chemical in a container and sprays it on specific parts of the tank. A soldier makes a blue mark on the mustard surface. A soldier puts a special chemical through a syringe. A soldier works on the syringe. Two soldiers wearing gas masks. A soldier stands on the tank. The soldier puts a vacuum bottle in the tank and stands holding the vacuum bottle. A soldier sprays DAMC, a non corrosive decontamination agent, on the tank. The tank moves. After two hours, a soldier wearing a gas mask sprays DAMC on the tank. Another soldier sprays the mustard chemical. The tank moves over a mud area. Mud stuck on the wheels is taken as a sample for a test. The soldiers on the tank spray chlorinated lime on the mud. The chlorinated lime in water. The tank moves into water to remove the mud. A soldier removes the mud from the tank. Several decontamination procedures being used. A soldier sprays hot steam all over the tank. Another soldier sprays DAMC . A soldier records the test result.
Opening scene shows a U.S. Army M3 Lee tank moving toward the camera, with a crew of two women, one in the top turret and the other in the lower turret (which does not show a gun). Women are seen working on various manufacturing tasks. One uses a sewing machine One loads powder into a shell and operates a machine press to compress it. Several women install noses on shells. Some work on large shell casings. Others examine and test small arms. One tests fires a Browning M-19. 30 caliber machine gun. as others test fire rifles. A woman is seen test firing a Browning M-1917 heavy machine gun. A battery of Anti-aircraft guns is seen raising its barrels and firing. A woman manipulates the controls of one. Women hold their ears as they test fire a 90mm anti-aircraft gun. A team of women carries a part for an artillery piece and screw it in place. Two women carry racks of artillery shells, that they load into an anti-aircraft gun. As the gun is test fired, they and a soldier with them hold their ears. Women work with pneumatic tools on the tread of an M3 Lee tank. One uses a long wrench to tighten a bolt. A woman poses in the top turret of the M-3. Two others climb aboard and close the hatch behind them. With two crew members seen in hatches, the tank drives past the camera. Final image is a woman holding two large artillery shells. (World War II period)
1940s views of new housing units in the form of residential apartment buildings east of Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. Apartments with parking garages under them across the South Capitol street bridge near the Oxon Hill area. A 1940s sedan car pulls into a parking garage under an apartment building. Next view is out Maryland Avenue and over Bladensburg Avenue to the northeast, showing apartments and other buildings in the Greenbelt area. Car traffic is seen driving through the University of Maryland campus. Apartment construction underway in areas near the University of Maryland. Construction of Colonial Village, with aerial and ground level views of the site. Traffic driving along the Mount Vernon Highway with the Potomac River beside it (later George Washington Parkway). Apartment building construction in Alexandria. Busy traffic scene of commuters arriving in Washington DC on a work day. People get on and off trolley car lines in Washington, D.C. Other commuters wait to board a bus. Late 1940s automobile traffic on street in Washington, D.C.
A short U.S. Army feature entitled,"Black Widow" AND "Jato." Introduction is overlayed on map of Europe. Opening sequence features P-61 Black Widows of the 422nd Night Fighter Squadron, stationed at Florennes/Juzaine (A-78), Belgium, during World War 2, Some of the aircraft are identifiable: P-61A 42-5577 (later nicknamed "Tactless Texan") and "Wandering Wench" (P-61A 42-5590). Narrator states their mission is to intercept German "flying bombs." Mixed footage of P-61s at various places and times, includes some with D-Day invasion stripes. Separate JATO-related footage features USN personnel fitting jet-assisted takeoff bottles on a Grumman F6F-3, possibly at NAS Patuxent River facility, Maryland. Later sequences show a JATO takeoffs by a Douglas SBD, and an F6F-3; and normal takeoff by a Grumman TBF, and a JATO takeoff by a Grumman F4F.
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