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Natural wealth, people, rural and city views in Arizona, United States.
Natural wealth of Arizona is shown. Canyon and desert with huge sonoran cactus in Arizona are seen. Mining operations with digger loading rail cars. Huge explosion from dynamite blasting in a mine. Men examine ancient petrified wood trees. Logging, timber, and lumber operations: Two workers operate a two man manual saw and cut a large Ponderosa Pine tree into sections. Dry desert area shown, and then contrasted with irrigated lands as men package harvested carrots. Oranges shown up close growing on citrus orange trees. Mountain peaks shown covered with snow. Two young boys in cowboy clothing sit on a fence and smile. Cowboys graze their cattle animals. Cowboy crosses a field on horseback silhouetted by a bright sunny sky background. City buildings and automobile traffic on the roads of an Arizona city contrasts with rural native American Indian tribal life. A native American Indian woman stands with a baby outside of a traditional hut build with mud and logs. An orange and silver colored modern locomotive races toward the camera position and passes by showing various train cars. Reenanctor playing part dressed as a Spanish conquistador. Spanish mission San Jose de Tumacacori is shown -- a historical monument of Arizona. A man prospecting walks amid rocks with his burro. He picks up a rock and hits on it with a hammer or chisel. Camera shows a vulture flying ominously overhead with a bright blue sky behind. A rattlesnake slithers across the desert ground. Bones of a dead human lying on desert floor. Sign for Tombstone Arizona, and actors portray residents of Tombstone, talking on town streets and fighting cowboys in a pistol firefight. A cowboy (actor) falls, show under a covered wagon. Views of gate at Boothill Graveyard with tombstones. Cross bearing text "Alfred Cantrell. Shot 1881." Another says "Ernest Brodines. Murdered 1882." And a third "M.E. Kellogg. 1882. Died natural death." Next grave crosses are: "Holderman Brothers. Hanged" also "Dan Kelly - hanged" and others.
Early attempts to fly various heavier than air contraptions. Later use of rockets for propulsion; GE jet engines circa 1951.
Early history of flight with various ornithopters and flying contraptions. A bicycle-powered 8-winged airplane collapses in front of a hangar during takeoff attempt. Man wearing a set of wings, and a tail, tries to fly by running and also by jumping off a large rock. The so-called Pitt Sky Car in action. A car equipped with an umbrella-like rotor intended for vertical takeoff. It simply jumps up and down. A man riding a bicycle being propelled in part by a pack of rockets burning behind his seat. It gets too hot and he abandons the bicycle just before the rocket pack explodes. Animated discussion of Newton's 3rd law of motion and its relevance to the jet airplane engine. Diagrams and illustrations. A Lockheed F-80 Shooting Star aircraft taking off, and in flight, with its speed brake extended. View of General Electric jet engine, circa 1951, that delivers over 5800 pounds of thrust. These engines being produced in the GE plant at Lynn, Massachusetts and the new (1951) GE plant at Lockland Ohio.
Marines carry equipment and set up tents during their training in Nevada
United States Marine Corps helicopters fly over a desert in Nevada during a training exercise, during the Vietnam War period. Helicopter landing on the desert. Marines unloading equipment from a truck. Marines crowd at the back of another truck seen in the background. Marines sit at the back of a moving truck (USMC 212760). Marines walking and gather in the desert during their training. Naval infantry training how to move while carrying equipment. Marines carrying machine guns and rocket launchers. A Marine carries a bulky backpack with an antenna on top. Marines position machine guns and digging dirt. Marines in training setting up tents. Officers observe soldiers during their training. Two Marine smoke cigarettes while setting up equipment. A group of soldiers set up a large tent together.
Mount Whitney and rocks of Alabama Hills in California.
Mount Whitney and other peaks of the High Sierra as seen from Mojave Desert. View of Mojave Desert as seen from an elevated position. View of other peaks and ravines adjacent to Mount Whitney and rocks of Alabama Hills (oldest geological formation in the United States). Huge boulders in hill formation in Mojave Desert can be seen.
UFO enthusiasts visit Giant Rock and are interviewed by reporters in Mojave Desert, California.
Television broadcast shows the controversies regarding UFO (Unidentified Flying Object) in the United States. View of a convention or gathering of UFO fans at Giant Rock in the Mojave Desert in California. View of various book titles among the crowd gathered. Vehicles parked in front of the Giant rock in Mojave Desert, California. Book headlined 'Flying Saucers have Come'. Woman stands next to a board that reads 'My flight to Venus'. Reporter interviews her. She claims to be a UFO contactee and says during the experience she felt that her mind had become one with the entire universe. A man at the convention describes having met the late George Adamski, who had claimed to be a contactee and to have filmed UFOs and space saucers. View of footage reportedly shot by George Adamski of a flying saucer type of UFO flying in the sky that Adamski called a spaceship from Venus. Reporter interviews reported contactee Madeline Warterburger. She describes a UFO landing on her property. A man speaking at a podium mentions that 200-300 pilots have reported UFOs and yet they continue to fly.
Reporter interviews George Van Tassel at the Giant Rock in Mojave Desert, California.
Television broadcast shows the controversies regarding UFO (Unidentified Flying Object) in the United States. Various books written by scientists. Comic book 'Flash Gordon'. Site of Giant Rock in Mojave Desert, California. Reporter interviews a self-proclaimed Contactee named George Van Tassel at the Giant Rock. VanTassel describes the interior of the spaceship in which he says he rode on August 24, 1953.
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