A film on U.S. electric power resources. New streamlined railroad train called the Comet, in the United States. View in locomotive of engineer and his point of view looking out in front of the moving train. Engineer at the controls of the train. The train on a railway track.
A film on U.S. electric power resources. Pioneers of electrical industry. Inventor Thomas Alva Edison and German-American mathematician and electrical engineer Charles Proteus Steinmetz seated at a desk and discussing. Buildings in Schenectady, New York. Aerial view of the buildings. A mercury vapor power station.
View from Niagara River gorge of the exterior of the Schoellkopf Power Generating Station, operated by New York's Niagara Power Company. The turbine deck of the power plant, with turbines being driven by water of Niagara Falls. Bank of electric generators in operation. Change of scene to open gondola rail cars containing coal for a power plant. A steam locomotive pulling a freight train. An electric powered freight train of the Virginian Railway moving through snowy landscape over its electrified 134-mile track in the mountains,from Mullens, West Virginia, over Clark's Gap, to Roanoke, Virginia. A coal car being emptied by a tipper.
A film on U.S. electric power resources. A modern steam power station in the United States. Interior of the power plant. Machines and equipment in the plant. A man works on a machine. A map locates power plants in a broad area of the mid-Atlantic and Northeast U.S., including Pennsylvania, Ohio, and New York. The map legend cites different fuels including coal and oil.
Operations of U.S. Navy A-7A Corsair 2 aircraft aboard USS Ranger underway in the South China Sea during the Vietnam War. A press conference in progress by United States Navy Vice Admiral William F. Bringle. Several newsmen in the foreground. A newsman jots notes. Newsmen sitting at the tables in a wardroom listen to the briefing conference. Vice Admiral Bringle seated at a desk in the background. A news cameraman in the foreground takes movies. Many newsmen in the wardroom during the press conference.
U.S. President John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. signs the Kellogg-Briand Pact in the United States. He signs the pact with U.S. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg. Men entering a building. Officials seated at a desk. Other stand behind them. The President signs the pact. Other personages include Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon, Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis, Secretary of the Navy Curtis Dwight Wilbur, Secretary of Labor James John Davis, Secretary of the Interior Roy O. West, Secretary of Agriculture William Marion Jardine, Secretary of Commerce William Fairfield Whiting, Postmaster General Harry Stewart New, Attorney General John Garibaldi Sargent, Vice President Charles Gates Dawes and Senators William E. Borah, Charles Curtis, Frederick Huntington Gillett, Thomas J. Walsh, Hiram Bingham, and Charles A. Swanson.
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