Impresario Mike Todd passes away in New Mexico, United States. He dies of a plane crash. Mike Todd with his wife actress Elizabeth Taylor. People greet them. Lockheed Lodestar passender airplane parked on runway. Close up view of airplane door with name "The Liz" being opened ("The Lucky Liz"). Mike Todd boards the plane. Buildings in the background. The parts of the crashed plane in a rural area of New Mexico where it crashed killing Mike Todd, Art Cohn, and pilots Bill Verner and Tom Barclay.
Shows the White Sands Proving Ground ( White Sands Missile Range), a rocket range in New Mexico. The sign on the entrance reads ' U.S. Naval Unit White Sands Proving Ground '. German V-2 rocket parts at the facility. An erected tail section of the V-2 rocket and a rocket launch(firing) platform. Rocket reads 'German V-2 rocket,Ordnance Department, White Sands Proving Ground ,New Mexico'.
Loads of timbers stacked at Fort Dix in New Jersey, USA. Wooden planks stacked and stored in the yard. Men at work in the background, building encampments to receive World War II draftees and new recruits for training.
Laser induced lightning experiments conducted by Electromagnetic Hazards Group on Mt. Baldy, Colfax County, New Mexico. A sign for the Irving Langmuir Laboratory for Atmospheric Research in New Mexico. A path leading to the site. A barrage balloon in the sky. A Mobile Station on a hill. 'Mobile Test Station, Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory' sign on one of the trailers. The Test Station emblem. The landscape around the Station. Cimarron Range around the station. Bright yellow flowers at the Station. Tree covered hill. Scientists seated at the Station.
Laser induced lightning experiments conducted by Electromagnetic Hazards Group at the Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory Mobile Test Station on Mt. Baldy, Colfax County, New Mexico. The Mobile Test Station on a hill. Clouds over the mountains. Various equipment set up near the Station. An antenna. View of the Langmuir Laboratory in New Mexico.
Max Baer, an American boxer, displays his body before the heavy weight championship. Baer practices with coach in Asbury Park, New Jersey. Next is seen his opponent, Italian boxer Primo Carnera, as he practices and gets himself into shape at Pompton Lakes, New Jersey.
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