Major events of the year 1957. George Metesky charged with bombing of 21 places in New York after arrest by police. Photographers take his pictures. Colonel Abel, a Soviet spy, after arrest by Marshal Agents in Brooklyn, New York.
Major events of the year 1957. United States B-52 bombers in flight as they cover a distance 24,000 miles round the world. A world map shows the distance covered by the planes. Curtis Lume, the man who led a group of planes to Buenos Aires and back to United States without refueling the tanks. Planes in flight.
Major events of the year 1957. Aerial view of a town in shambles after Audrey hurricane hit the area killing 300 people in Louisiana, United States. Deserted town, houses submerged in water as a result of the hurricane. A destroyed town of Cameron. A man in a field submerged in water, wreckage on ground. Women and children outside their houses.
Major events of the year 1957. Volunteers and firefighters carry on an operation to rescue Benny Hooper from the bottom of a 20 feet deep well in New York, United States. Benny put in an ambulance after being rescued after 24 hours.
The Cuban Revolution against Batista in years 1957-1958. A Cuban Revolutionary writes a note to be taken across by Fidel Castro's courier. A soldier watches as a courier gets onto a horse and rides away. Refuge area for the rebels in the Sierra Maestra Mountains. A professional Communist from Argentina, Ernesto Che Guevara, joins Fidel Castro's men. He rides a horse as he smokes a cigarette and talks to another man. Soldiers clean and prepare arms and ammunition, they make bombs. Castro's rebels bomb buses and railroad trains. Charred cars and trucks. Buildings on fire from rebel guerrilla strikes. Oil tanks and factories set on fire by them. Black smoke arises from fires as firefighters try to put out fires. Men on horses cross a stream as they bring supplies. Castro talks to new recruits and pro-communists. Celia Sanchez, who was part of the Moncada Barracks attack, talks to a rebel. Che Guevara smokes a cigar as he inspects rockets. Soldiers ready the rocket. Soldiers sit and talk, climb uphill on foot and on horses. Soldiers inside a dimly lit camp. The rebels attack and fire. A rebel doctor operates upon a soldier in a make shift operating room. The rebels attack and fight police and Cuban military forces loyal to Batista. Soldiers fire in standing and prone positions. Soldiers walk down a path in the jungle. They gather around a man seated on the ground as he takes notes. Women rebels take pictures of prisoners for publicity purposes. A rebel with a camera. 1958: Batista's men search for Castro. Soldiers walk uphill and cross a stream. A soldier in a deserted village. People near wrecked buildings and houses. A woman soldier speaks into a microphone for the rebel radio. A man adjusts the knob of a portable transistor radio.
"Owens," the tenth shot of Operation Plumbbob, is fired at an altitude of 500 feet from a plastic balloon at 6:30 am civilian time on July 25, 1957. The nuclear test yields 9.7 kilotons (equal to 9,700 tons of TNT). A brilliant flash gives way to an orange fireball which quickly begins to cool and churn skyward. Mushroom cloud forms fast. Cameraman slate at beginning of clip identifies the shot as Owens.