The first scene shows a man and a woman standing on a bluff overlooking the Niagara River at Niagara Falls. The entire area is covered by snow and ice, including large clumps of grass and twigs. Behind them is a battery of 36 high intensity lights aimed at the American Falls. ((In 1907, William D’Arcy Ryan of the General Electric Company of Schenectady, New York designed battery of lights to illuminate the Falls. Comprised of 36 lights, they had the strength of 1,093,815,000 candela and were mounted on the Ontario Power Company access road north of the Ontario Power Generating Station near the base of the gorge.) Below the bluff, the Canadian Ontario Power Generating Station can barely be seen because of heavy mist rising from Niagara Falls. The same man and woman are next seen by an access ramp on Luna Island, where the Niagara Bridal Falls is seen in the foreground. Camera moves to a higher vantage point showing three people on Goat Island with Bridal Falls immediately behind them and the American Falls beyond. Goat and Luna Island are completely snow-covered. Glimpse of a woman standing on the bluff shown at the film start. Views of the boat, "Maid of the Mist," ice-bound at the base of the falls.
Army Experimental Station at Pine Camp, located in Great Bend, New York, United States. Signal Servicemen check recording instruments and play sound deception records on phonograph player at Army Experimental Station. Signal Corps Sonic Company soldiers (sometimes referred to as the Ghost Army) stand in review in front of tanks and trucks. U.S. Army officers reviews them. Animated diagram shows Company headquarters and Administrative Platoon. U.S. Army servicemen skilled in sonic deception and decoy sound in World War 2 are seen recording the sound of tanks and other armored vehicles. Officials check graphs at the headquarters. Board reads AES School. Instructor takes a class in a classroom at AES School. Servicemen undergo training at the test Station. A group of students operates the sound amplifier. German headquarters shown on an animated map. Animation shows various tanks sending out sounds to the German enemy as decoy to disguise and mislead the enemy regarding actual troop movements.
In New York, United Nations mediator, Folke Bernadotte returns to Zion for final settlement of Arab-Jewish War. People come out from a building at airport. Folke Bernadotte, United Nations mediator, and his wife Estelle Manville talk at the airport. UN mediator, Bernadotte, leaves in a plane for Rhodes to achieve a truce for Arab-Jewish War.
Charles Lindbergh arrives in New York. He arrives to present his views on the aerial armadas of European Nations to the Congress. Men walking along with him. Cameramen taking photographs. Barbara Hutton arrives on the SS Aquitania. She arrives to reclaim her American citizenship. Men interviewing her.
Newly reelected President Franklin Delano Roosevelt seated at a card table in the garden of his home, Springwood, at Hyde Park, New York. A black Labrador retriever dog sits near the President, who pets him. The dog puts a paw on the table and then walks away. The President proceeds to sign a number of letters thanking supporters for congratulatory telegrams they sent upon his reelection.
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt at the family home, Springwood, Hyde Park, New York. The President is seated at a card table in the garden, signing letters of thanks to supporters who sent him telegrams of congratulation on his reelection. Three grandchildren surround him as he works, and he chats with them.
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