Functions of an aerial camera and its units are demonstrated in the United States. CAS-2A aerial camera for trick photography. A reel from which two images can be taken is unrolled. A reel which is used for obtaining 3D images by a stereo viewer is unrolled. A U.S. Navy demonstrator opens the slit of the camera and adjusts light intensity and film speed. He shows two lenses. Lenses can be rotated to several degrees. Manual settings are done prior to photography. Other units of installation include: power unit, scanner, scanner converter and control system of camera. Control panel: the power switch is turned on. Green light on special panel indicates that camera is operated correctly. Various buttons of panel including film failure, inadequate light intensity and exposure remaining. The scanner and computer dial of the control panel is adjusted. Dials for ground speed and altitude of flight are adjusted. Focal length and depression angle are adjusted on the power unit. Photo recorder unit incorporates a motion picture camera. Photo recorder panel is shown. Assembly and loading of the camera: Slit assembly is installed in the camera. 3 slit assembly include left oblique photography, right oblique photography and slit assembly for vertical photography. Electric connections are made. Assembly pushed in to the camera. Lens unit is mounted on the camera. One assembly is cleaned. Two cassettes are take up and supply cassettes. Loading of the supply cassette: A cover is removed, light lock is opened and a pivot is withdrawn. The film is pushed through the light lock. The cover is replaced and a latch is locked. The supply cassette is mounted on the camera. Take up cassette is mounted on the camera. Both cassettes are locked. Camera loading is complete.
A film on the history of U.S. soldiers. Various American landscape wide views, some with roads, some with natural features. Plains, deserts, mountains in the United States. A mountainous area in the western United States. A snowcapped mountain in the background. Three elderly United States Civil War veteran soldiers, both Union and Confederate, walking together in a American military cemetery. United States Army soldiers wearing helmets and marching at an Army base or encampment. U.S. soldiers marching on Constitution Avenue in Washington DC during a parade. They hold rifles and a soldier holds the U.S. flag. U.S. Army cavalry unit riding on horses in formation. Elevated view of an American city square with snow capped mountains rising in the background. Other American cities in the west with city center areas, pedestrians, and 1930s and 1940s automobiles on the roads. Cars parked at a large industrial factory with a water tower rising up. Aerial view of an urban, western United States city with a bridge over water in background. Aerial views of various American cities. United States Army infantry soldiers march along a road and then cavalry are seen galloping by on horses. A railroad train approaching the camera and then passing by at high speed, with views of the locomotive, cars, wheels, and railroad tracks. View of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California. Point of view shot from front of moving railroad train in Colorado on the edge of gorge near the Rocky Mountains. A river steamboat or paddle steamer with a bridge in the background. Men harvesting sugar cane in Cuba. Lock gates on the Panama Canal opening, as seen from a ship waiting to enter. A World War I memorial sculpture honoring American soldiers.
Richard Nixon-Spiro Agnew election campaign for the office of Presidency in United States. Various demonstrations in United States. A huge crowd gathered in Democratic National Convention. A sign reads 'Illinois'. People stand with the U.S. flags. Domestic violence in United States. A fire in a building. People protest on streets. A protesting group carries banners. A banner reads 'Independent Socialism'. Wreckage on street. 'Change' written on a box in rubble. United States soldiers in Vietnam during Vietnam War. Unemployed citizens and poor people in United States. A man stands in a building. A poor woman with her child. A man in a building. The U.S. flag on the building. Reflection of light in water. The campaign stresses on choosing the right leader in United States.
United States Army Quartermaster Corps depots in the United States. Factories where production is a continuously running process. Equipment in operation in the factories. A diagram shows commodities classified into two groups: perishable subsistence and textiles clothing, general supplies, and non-perishable subsistence. Perishable subsistence commodities such as eggs, meat and vegetables are purchased on a daily basis by representatives of the Quartermaster Corps. The representatives move among cartons of vegetables. A map of the United States shows locations of offices at market points. Men and women operating a telephone network co-ordinating activities in these offices. A man takes a printout of hourly market coverage. A map of the United States showing 35 market centers through which perishable commodities for military needs are supplied. The representatives of the Quartermaster Corps among cartons of vegetables in an open market. The men look at the vegetables. The market centers in view. Non-perishable items such as clothing, textile, general supplies and K-ration packets in view. A map of the United States shows the 17 purchasing offices located in depots in the 15 procuring districts through which these items are procured. The Boston Quartermaster Depot purchases all footwear and shoes. Office supplies in view which have been purchased by Jersey City Quartermaster Depot. The Philadelphia Quartermaster Depot procures all textiles. A map of the United States shows the 15 procuring districts.
Industrial Geography of the United States regarding mining of Anthracite Coal. Demand for coal in various parts of the world. Shipping of coal via export from United States to other countries in the early 1920s. Coal car lifter picks up coal car. Train carries coal to different regions of United States. Train passes through snow covered countryside in United States. Availability of Anthracite coal in United States.
Japanese diplomats in the United States. Car and bus traffic of 1950s cars on street in Washington Dc with the United States Capitol building in the background. Elected Japanese representatives climb up stairs of the U.S. assembly. The U.S. Vice President Allen W Barkley and Secretary David Rice Atchison receives Japanese representatives and shake hands with them. They pose. Building of the United Nations (The temporary United Nations Headquarters building in Lake Success, Long Island, New York, in the Sperry Gyroscope Corp building.) Japanese representatives go in the building. Warren Austin, a U.S. delegate stands and shakes hands with the representatives. They sit in hall, wear headphones and listen to the translated discussions. Scene changes to Paris, with car traffic on street and Arc de Triomphe in background. Building of the UNESCO (United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization). Japanese representatives get in the building. Meeting in session. Representatives of Japan, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia. Japanese representative addresses and shakes hands with the UNESCO president and other members.
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