First Session, United Nations General Assembly, meeting, called to order by Assembly President Paul-Henri Spaak of Belgium. W.J.O. Makin, Australian delegate, talks about solving disputes and working towards interests of United Nations. Several members seated in the General Assembly. He talks about the Veto power in the Security Council.
Four-man bobsled teams on the steep slopes of Mount Van Hoevenberg in North American Championship. Long racing sleds seen. Shots include team members boarding bobsled and point of view shots from aboard moving sled as it races down the course.
A sheath of ice formed by the spray of the Niagara Falls due to extremely cold temperature in winter. Frozen blocks jam the Niagara River. A bird sits on the snow. A view of the snow covered trees.
Crewmen of the USS aircraft carrier Antietam line up on the flight deck to donate blood to the Red Cross. Men register for the blood donation. The donors lie on beds. Nurses stand near them. Nurses carry blood bottles.
The Niagara Falls freezes due to cold wave. Women and children look at the Niagara Falls which has frozen due to a cold wave. Ice accumulates against the wall. Ice floats in water. Ice walls hang from the rocks. A 30 feet thick bridge of ice at the bottom of the gorge.
At start, film shows Dr. Leo Szilard (inventor of the cyclotron) standing in front of a cyclotron in the Pepin Physics Laboratory of Columbia University. He is studying some documented research results. Dr. George Pegram, Chairman of Columbia's Physics Department, enters and converses with Szilard. They review the research data together. Pegram leaves, and Szilard continues to review data. He holds a stop watch and enters some numbers in his journal. Dr. Pegram returns and they again look at the data. Closeup of the two reviewing data and conversing. Repeat of Szilard with stop watch, entering data. Closeups of Szilard speaking to Pegram (unseen). Closeup of Dr. Pegram, talking about the research results. (These repeated scenes are obviously retakes.) Closeup of Szilard's hand starting a stopwatch. Horizontal line and brief vertical lines also displayed on an oscilloscope.
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