A film includes panoramic views of the Western United States and accounts of trade caravans moving towards Santa Fe, New Mexico from Missouri in 1821. Panoramic views of mountainous terrain, rivers, trees and rocky hills of the Western United States and the Santa Fe Trail. Exteriors of Pueblo houses in Santa Fe. Chili peppers drying on a wall. Several adobe-brick houses. Interiors of an adobe house showing furnishes, silver coins, ironware and blankets of early times. An adobe church in Santa Fe. Interiors of the church showing the oldest reredos.
U.S. aviators of the 1st Aero Squadron pose in front of a Curtiss JN-3 airplane their base in Columbus, New Mexico, in 1916. The rest of their aircraft are lined up, parked, side by side. Scene shifts abruptly to views of camp below, from an airplane flying above it. Pilot is seen in open cockpit.
Native American Indians perform a buffalo dance in San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico. The roof of a pueblo building. Mountains in the background. Young Indian girls walk through a field. Indian men standing by. A man fills water from a tap. Native American Indian dancers climb down the steps of a building. They are from the Tewa ethnic group of Native Americans. A man plays a drum. The Indian dancers in regalia perform the buffalo dance. A group of Indian men play drums in a circle while the dancers perform. Civilians gathered to watch their performance. Huts in the background. Close-up views of the drum circle show that the drummers are also singing.
Tewa Native American Indian dancers of San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico, perform a Cloud Dance . Local native American Indian dancers perform the cloud dance in th pueblo village plaza. A local leader inspects the lined up dancers. Adobe homes in the background. A Native American Indian man plays a drum. The artists climb up the steps of a pueblo building.
MB-1 rocket rail-launched from a U.S. Air Force F-102A Delta Dagger at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico. Footage taken from GSAP (Gun Sight Aiming Point) camera mounted under right wing of F- 102 in flight. MB-1 rocket fired from rail launcher. Technicians work on F-102A parked outside a hangar. Two technicians wheel an MB-1 rocket on a dolly, underneath F- 102A parked on ramp. Three technicians check out and calibrate special instrumentation to be used during the test run. The instruments include different types of oscillographs, and photo panels. Special camera installations made on the F-102A vertical stabilizer, fuselage, and wings. Technician installs a l6mm camera inside the aircraft nose, then closes access panel. F-102A takes off. Radar vectoring station T-1 at Holloman AFB. Technician operates one of the tracking scanners installed on roof of building. Two men, inside the vectoring station, control the course of the test aircraft by radio communication from the vectoring machine plotting charts. The pilot in F-102A cockpit as he turns on the recording cameras to activate the armament system. MB-1 bomb extended below the aircraft. Engineer talks on the radio phone inside the vectoring station. Pilot's hand on the control stick as he activates the firing switch. MB-l rocket is fired from the short rail launcher. The aircraft is enveloped in a trail of white smoke. GSAP camera mounted underneath the right wing of the F-102A, shows the MB-l rocket being fired from the short rail launcher. Smoke due to the firing of the rocket.
United States Army troops of Battery A, 217th Field Artillery Missile Battalion, 40th Artillery Group (Redstone) stationed in Germany, fire Redstone Block II tactical missile CC-2014 (carrying a TV camera) from White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico on 16 March 1960 as part of their Annual Service Practice (ASP) firing exercise. Redstone Missile takes off and advances upward. The missile leaves a trail of smoke.