Wire photo system to send a photo through ordinary telephone wire. Interiors of office show a man working on a turntable-based device. Man speaks into telephone mouthpiece. Photograph revolves on one turntable, the transmission is sent via telephone wires, and a copy of the photograph is developed on another, remote turntable. From a newsreel in 1961 recounting events roughly 25 years earlier.
Christmas time advertisement for U.S. Savings Bonds. Interior of a house decorated for Christmas, with Christmas tree and toy train running on a table. Actress Donna Reed walks to the table, stops the train and holds up a December 1958 U.S. Savings Bond. She speaks about the Savings Bond, places it on a toy train car, and starts the train. As the train moves along the track, it passes signs reflecting successive passing time increments: Dec 1961 (three years), Dec 1964 (3 more years), and Aug 1968 (3 more years and 8 months). By staying on track to maturity, the bond is worth much more. Donna Reed notes this and suggests Savings Bonds as a Christmas gift. She closes by wishing everyone a Merry Christmas. (Note: The original maturity period for a Series E Bond was 10 years. But the U.S. Government reduced it to 9 years and 8 months, in 1952. That revised maturity period is reflected in this advertisement.) (Additional note: The trains are by Lionel, and include "The General" locomotive, a New York Central boxcar, a Lionel flatcar, and Lionel Lines caboose.)
At the Maxwell Airfield in Alabama. Signboard reads 'Headquarters Air University'. Officials seated around table. A civilian counselor assists an instructor. Door sign reads 'Commandant Air Command and Staff School'. Students listen to instructor in classroom. Door sign reads 'Commandant Air War College'. Officer teaches students. Students work for the seminars conducted at the National War College. Students in library.
The Army Air Force Institute in Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio. Students attend the classes. Exteriors of experimental laboratories at Wright Field. Student observes laboratory tests of materials. Various equipment in laboratory. Procurement officers in the factory. 'Operations Altitude 300' building at Wright Field. A plane taxis and takes off.
The Joint Operations Staff College at Norfolk, Virginia. Seminars conducted at the National War College and the Industrial College of the Armed Forces. Officers collected from ground, Naval and Air Force work collectively. Officers examine globe, read books and attend medical service classes. Officers enter into building. Officers play pool (billiards). Door Sign reads 'Student Committee Room'. Officers seated in a round table conference. Officers attend the War College in Washington DC. Civilian and Army officers meet each other at school. Officers attend classes at the Industrial College of Armed Forces. Officers examine a chart in room. Officers in a aircraft factory examine aircraft being assembled. Officers observe workers assembling a truck. Officers confer in a library with books on nearby shelves. Officers eat together in dining facilities and play handball. Military caps of different services on a hat rack. Massive columns of US Army soldiers and military vehicles, artillery, tanks, and tank destroyers parade on a street (possibly New York City) possibly at end of World War 2 or near that time. Military bomber aircraft in flight in formation overhead. The United States and British flags fluttering side by side in a breeze.
Construction activity at a U.S. military base in arctic. Surveyor at work. Bulldozer in operation. Crane lifting buckets of concrete for foundations. Crane bucket is heated over a fire. Many established buildings seen in background. Workers fill bucket with concrete from large trailer. Ships in harbor, with snow covered hills behind. in water. Snow capped mountains. Clouds settled over mountains. Dock area. Buildings on base of mountains. (World War II period).
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