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Frank Knight the host of television talk show 'Longines Chronoscope' talks about Longines-Wittnauer watches

Frank Knight the host of weekly New York television talk show 'Longines Chronoscope' talks about Longines-Wittnauer watches. The show is produced by Longines-Wittnauer Watch Company. Various awards and medals received by Longines-Wittnauer Watch Company are seen. Several models of Longines-Wittnauer watches on display.

Location: New York United States USA
Date: 1952, August 4
Duration: 2 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041162
Laboratory technicians perform experiments at Aero-Medical Field Laboratory of Holloman Air Force Base

Aero-Medical Field Laboratory tests at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, United States. Interiors of a laboratory shows technicians looking through microscopes. An airman operates a balance scale. Bottles on a shelf in the background. A technician places a cylinder in a horizontal position.

Location: New Mexico United States USA
Date: 1952
Duration: 4 min 0 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065003
New catapult for aircraft carriers demonstrated in England.

A British catapult systems for aircraft carriers is introduced. Demonstrations include launch of a dead weight, a pilotless plane and then piloted jets from the deck of an aircraft carrier during various stages of tests in England. The pilotless plane has no wing tips to ensure it will not fly far after launch, and crashes into the sea after launch.

Location: United Kingdom
Date: 1952, January 10
Duration: 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034654
News reel entitled "Korea, Paratroops Active on Battle Front."

U.S. paratroopers active on a battle front in Korea during the Korean War. U.S. Army paratroopers are seen lined up as they board a U.S.Air Force C-124 Cargo aircraft on an airfield. A C-119 airplane is parked in the background. Closer view of the C-124 with its large clam shell doors open. The troopers board on ramps lowered from the aircraft. Closeup of one trooper climbing a ladder to an aircraft. C-119 aircraft taking off and then in formation. View of pilot in cockpit of a C-119 in flight. Paratroopers jumping from C-46 aircraft. Their chutes deploying. Closeup of paratroopers exiting rear door of C-46 and delaying their chute openings. View from inside a C-46 as troopers jump and their chutes open when well clear of the aircraft. View from below of troopers dropping from C-46s with chutes deployed. More view from inside aircraft as troopers jump. A formation of C-119 (Flying Boxcars) dropping heavy equipment on skids with parachutes attached. View from ground of sky filled with parachutes. Closer views of some troopers as they approach the ground and land. Troops standing by as their equipment is dropped to them by parachutes. Equipment drops reaching the ground. Troops moving out from the landing area.

Location: Korea
Date: 1952, November 26
Duration: 1 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070966
Morrison-Knudsen construction company builds dams and irrigation canals in Afghanistan

Opening scene shows the Boghra diversion dam and associated irrigation canal built by Morrison-Knudsen Construction Company (MK) along the Helmand River in Afghanistan. Three MKA (Morrison-Knudsen-Afghanistan) engineers stand on the bank of the new irrigation canal of this project. Glimpse of a small power plant built on the canal. A man turns a large wheel releasing water from lateral canals into the main canal which would irrigate an experimental farming area. An MKA yellow truck,carrying three Afghans in the back, drives through an ancient gate to the headquarters for this experimental farm at an ancient caravan fortress named Nad-e Ali. Next, an Afghan is seen driving a tractor pulling a set of harrows to till the soil. A field where seed was planted. Scene shifts to later when the seeds have grown and an Afghan farmers are seen harvesting the new grain by hand. The next year, fields of alfalfa are seen from the first year's seeding. Another tractor is seen working at the edge of a field of crop. Afghan farmers use hand cultivators to tend the crops. View of large fields of crops. An Afghan boy stands on the bank of the Boghra canal. View of camels grazing in sparse desert area. Scene shifts to Afghan and MKA officials negotiating another contract. View of brass sign on the Export Import Bank in Washington, DC. Inside, officials of the Bank are seated around a table. (Narrator states the Bank provided a 22 million dollar loan for the new extended construction contract.) View of the Helmand River (and its deep canyon Northwest of Kandahar) and the Arghandab River, where large dams were to be constructed. Dump trucks are next seen commencing work at the Arghandab site, building a work road atop a dike along the side of the river. Camera pans across the broad sweep of the project underway. Construction equipment of all types seen moving along the work road and at work atop the dam. Afghan workers operating power shovels. Earth and stones moving on a conveyor belt. Wooden forms being built and steel reinforcing bars being installed. Afghans clearing areas for drilling operations. Afghan powder men ram charges into areas to be blasted. View of man pushing handle to ignite the charges. Explosion raises smoke, debris and dust. More views of construction equipment in operation Views of the dam at about the 200 foot height.

Location: Afghanistan
Date: 1952
Duration: 5 min 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066744
People work at cotton, paper and automotive factory in Japan.

Industry and production activities of Japanese people working in Japan. Smoke rise from chimneys at industrial factory area. Factory workers go towards plant. Woman works at a machine in cotton plant. Man paints on dish. Woman feeds flax into machine. Men cut down trees in forest. Wood logs are rolled to water. Machine chops wood to pulp. Filled vats ready for paper processing. Hot melted metal at steel plant. Worker takes out hot metal rod. Workers in a car factory. Workers assemble parts of truck at automotive factory. Ready vehicles come out of factory in line. Train pulls into elevated subway station. People get off train. An electric train arrives. Persons of management and labor representatives sit and discuss for common good. Workers at shipyard. Ready and decorated ship launched in sea. People wave. Ship heading for New York harbor. New York skyline in the background.

Location: Japan
Date: 1952
Duration: 3 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026680
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