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Film 'Milestone in Missilry' shows historic sequence of defensive missiles in operation in the U.S.A.
Film 'Milestone in Missilry' shows outdoor static display of many missiles near museum at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. A V-2 rocket on launch pad and then firing and launching. Nike Ajax antiaircraft missile is launched and destroys a QB-17 drone target aircraft. Technicians look through telescopic machine. Camera records the missile flight. Several more missile launches and strikes are recorded, including a couple targeting T-33 jet fighter drones. Nike Hercules missile strikes T-33 drone. All of the tests were monitored, tracked and filmed by elaborate machine.
German invasion of Poland triggers British mobilization for World War II
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain of Britain sits pensively at his desk. Winston Churchill and his wife, Clementine, walking together in London. King George VI stepping from a car and entering 10 Downing Street. Mobilization of British forces for war. British civilians marching casually wearing steel army helmets. A man volunteering for the Army. New recruits being issued uniforms. Others, in civilian clothes, learning to drill with rifles and then marching away from a village. Recruits in bayonet practice. Winston Churchill speaking about the tragedy brought upon Europe by Hitler (this Churchill speech was at St. James's Place, London, June 12, 1941, in an address to Allied delegates). Aerial views of the destruction of Poland by Luftwaffe aircraft of Germany. Civilian Polish victims of German bombardment. A boy and women mourning over the dead. A child being held near a bonfire to warm her. Children rescuing a few possessions from a destroyed home. Parents carrying children. Women and girls crying and in mourning for the loss of loved ones and destruction from war.
Montage of scenes depicting U.S. military weapons in the Korean War era.
Segment of U.S. Army public information television program called, "The Big Picture." Army cameraman records firing of a Nike missile. Atomic cannon fires shell creating atomic explosion and classic mushroom cloud. Army troops exit Sikorsky YH-19 helicopters. Infantrymen climb a hill while firing rifles in unison. Animated rotating world globe. Sergeant Stuart Queen emphasizes that, in spite of new weapon systems, the individual soldier is the essential element of the Army. Technicians in missile launch control blockhouse observe launch of a missile from steel tower. View from inside the structure of missile rising, and then of smoke as it heads skyward. Radar units and cameras tracking the missile. Views from a missile, of the ground below, as it accelerates upwards. More tracking cameras. A Matador missile being launched. A Viking missile being launched. Test of anti-aircraft missile launched horizontally, striking nearby target with explosion. A thermonuclear weapon test explosion. A Corporal missile being launched. Sophisticated electronic tracking equipment employed at desert test site. Convair experimental XFY Pogo seen in vertical takeoff during trials. Anti-aircraft missile, fired from Navy ship, strikes drone target aircraft, which falls in flames. Technician stands before a virtual wall of electronic equipment. Army Signal Corps television cameraman captures field maneuvers of Landing Vehicles Tracked (LVTs) and an M4 Sherman tank. A High-flying warplane fires an air-to-air missile destroying a drone aircraft target that falls in flames. Aerial view of the Pentagon, Arlington, Virginia. America's top military leaders sit around a table. At the head, is Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Arthur William Radford. To his right are: General Nathan F. Twining, USAF, and Admiral Robert B. Carney, Chief of Naval Operations (back to camera). To Radford's left are General Lyman Lemnitzer, Army chief of Staff, and General Lemuel C. Shepherd, Jr. Commandant of the Marine Corps. Views of U.S. Navy warships firing heavy guns. A South Dakota Class Battleship firing her 16-inch guns. Navy aircraft being catapulted from the USS Ranger (CV-61). Gun camera view from aircraft firing guns. A USAF B-52 bomber in flight. Bombs falling from open bomb bay of bomber in flight and carpeting the ground with explosions. Low flying USAF aircraft demonstrating ground-support bombing techniques, dropping napalm and explosive bombs.
Major demolition and reconstruction of the White House in Washington, DC starting in 1949
Wholesale reconstruction of the White House residence begun in 1949 and continuing during most of the term of President Truman, who used Blair house as the official Presidential residence during the renovation period. Although the wings continued to function for White House staff, the main house was completely rebuilt, with new supports, beams, etc. which involved demolition and rebuilding on a monumental scale. Views of the construction work in progress.
People eat at restaurants, fairs, Automats, and take frozen foods and TV dinners at home in the United States.
People eat various food stuffs in cities and suburbs in the United States, including new ready to eat foods and convenience foods, fast foods, frozen foods, prepared foods, and food from vending machines. A pigeon eats grains. People seated at a sidewalk cafeteria. Sidewalk vendors include a frankfurters and rolls vendor. A man sells food and drinks in a railway car. A woman takes a beverage in the car. Men eat hamburgers at a restaurant. Girls have cotton candy at a fair, a boy eats ice cream. Sodas, milk, ice cream vending machines. A man fills Coca Cola from a vending machine. People eat at various Automats. A man has corn on the cob. Frozen vegetables emptied in a pot. Reddi whip whipped cream from a can being put on desserts. A turkey "TV dinner". Frozen ices and French fries. Prepared, canned biscuits are placed on a baking sheet. View of hands opening a box of frozen pancakes and putting two pancakes in a toaster. View of pancakes being put on a plate after toasting and covered with maple syrup. a single-serving Raisin Bran cereal box is opened by a child using cut-out lines on the cardboard. Chocolate sauce on a dessert. A boy spreads toothpaste on a toothbrush. Elaborately dressed women eat at a restaurant. Woman sitting at a diner counter as bus boy clears dishes.
Woman typist prepares meal for her husband at office in Chicago, Illinois.
Newsreel "Office wife turns cook in New City Fad." A business man working at a desk in an office in Chicago. A woman typing at a typewriter in the same office. The man looks at his watch and appears to signal to the woman a request to prepare a meal. The woman, who is also his wife, gets up and dons an apron in a kitchen area. She lays a table for breakfast or lunch at the same table where she had been typing earlier. The man and the woman eat the meal together. The man kisses the woman and gets up from the table to return to work. (Themes include role of women in 1930s America, and working women in the United States.)
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