U.S. Navy Fleet Ballistic Missile submarine activity during the cold war of the 1960s and 1970s. U.S. Navy nuclear submarine USS Thomas Jefferson (SSBN-618) on surface of water, and heading out to sea from a port. Various Navy ships at a port. An officer holds a megaphone. Crew standing on submarine. Brief view of USS Von Steuben (SSBN-632) at port. Submarine at sea. It dives into the sea. Crew members at control panels. Interior views of nuclear submarine. Life and work of U.S. Navy submarine sailors while at sea. Crew members talking with each other. Captain of the crew supervises. A man measures distance between points on a map. A hidden switchboard revealed. Figures seen on a paper. Men testing an instrument. The instrument shows green lines. Crew members at a large control panel. A mechanic testing instrument and another member of crew comes and see him working. Scene of a security area. A sailor does weightlifting exercises by lifting a barbell.
Preparations for recommission of USS Midway (CV-41) in San Francisco. Sign board reads "USS Midway CVA-41 Modernization. San Francisco Bay Naval Shipyard's Greatest Challenge. Scheduled completion June 1970." Workers and heavy equipment in use near the ship. View of USS Midway at port. Large rail crane in the background.
Moving POV point of view shot as a pedestrian holding a camera walks on sidewalk along Nassau Street in Lower Manhattan, New York City. Crowded sidewalk with pedestrians in 1970's fashions. Manhattan streets busy with cars and trucks and taxis. Vendors selling their products including fruits and jewelry in stands set up on sidewalk. Traffic seen on the roads. A cafe advertising Frankfurters. Large sign "Goldsmith Bros" on the Goldsmith Bros. stationary and office supply store. Sign for "Barney's Discount Center" (Barneys New York).
View from ground of Twin Towers of World Trade Center, still under final construction, in lower Manhattan, New York City. People crowded on a sidewalk in New York City with sidewalk close up shots of pedestrians walking to work, wearing late 1960's and early 1970's fashions. Men and women workers walk.
View of Seatrain lines at harbor in New York City in the United States. People exit from the building of the Department of Marine Aviation and head toward Manhattan office buildings and taxi cabs. View of 1970s car traffic on busy streets and roads of Manhattan, New York City.
View of high rise buildings and skyscrapers, subway and highway in New York City from moving vehicle (brief POV shot). Motorists in a tunnel or bridge entrance merge area in New York City. Heavy traffic congestion at the merge, possibly at a tunnel entrance. Many 1960's and 1970's vehicles including cars and trucks jockeying for progress in the slow traffic jam.