Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii during World War II. The bow of USS Argonne. A row of battleships underway including USS Maryland, capsized USS Oklahoma, USS Tennessee, USS West Virginia. Burning USS Arizona, USS Vestal and USS Nevada. Smoke rises in the foreground. An attacking Japanese aircraft in flight and flak in the sky. USS Neosho starts to back clear of her moorings at the end of a row of battleships. USS Helena and USS Oglala being pulled clear of cruisers side. A Japanese airplane under anti aircraft fire. Battleship USS Nevada tries to reach open sea. The ship is heavily bombed forward. Her guns are firing back at her Japanese attackers. USS Oglala (CM-4) sinks in the foreground.
The United States aircraft carrier Franklin D Roosevelt (CVA-42) commissioned in New York, United States. The United States ships Macon (CA-132), Helena(CA-75), Enterprise(CVS-6), and Midway(CVA-41) and other Navy vessels in Fleet Revies on Hudson River, New York. Planes in formation flight overhead as officers salute. A dirigible flies overhead and a sailor salutes. A ship with name 'Porter' painted on its side.. Guns firing salute from the USS Midway (CVA-41) as smoke rises. Ships underway in Hudson River with New York Skyscrapers in the background. (World War II period).
Film begins showing hand held camera view from the President's airplane, Air Force One, (a VC-137C -- customized Boeing 707) as it approaches Kalispell Montana. A large crowd rushes toward the fence at the Glacier Park International Airport.. View from side of stairs by Air Force One, showing President Richard Nixon giving a characteristic wave to the crowd. He is followed by his wife, Pat Nixon, Senator Mike Mansfield and Congressman Dick Shoup, as they descend from the airplane. The stairs display the Logo of the Military Airlift Command. Camera pans along the left wing of Air Force One to reveal an enthusiastic crowd of well wishers, including a high school marching band in red uniforms, playing their instruments under the baton of their conductor. Some at back of the crowd hold up a large sign reading: "Agriculture." Camera zooms in from behind as President Nixon, flanked by Mike Mansfield, the Majority Leader of the Senate, and Montana Congressman Dick Shoup, as he makes a few remarks into a microphone. Several Native American Indians wearing feathered head dress stand nearby. Sign on airport building reads: "Welcome to Flathead Valley President and Mrs. Nixon." Camera pans across the large crowd on the airfield tarmac. Air Force One is in the background. State Police and other law enforcement officers mingle at the edge of the crowd. Mike Mansfield walks alone at the edge of the crowd, near law enforcement officers. A phalanx of news reporters and photographers make their way through the crowd, following President Nixon and using. long handled microphones to capture comments and statements in extended scenes across the spectrum of onlookers. Such scenes comprise the remainder and bulk of the film.
Landscapes and wildlife in the Rocky Mountain regions of the United States. Tourists visits the steaming and boiling water holes known as geysers at Yellowstone Park in Montana. Trees in the background. Steam rises up from Old Faithful geyser. A wild buffalo, one of few left from original native herds, grazes in a field. Mountains in the background. Rocky Mountain Goats graze field. Elk and deer move on rocky area likely in Montana or Colorado.
Free-for-all pacing race, with $6000 purse, at Charter Oak Park in Connecticut, United States. Large crowds watch the race. Horses and drivers in sulkies are seen as their horses pace past the crowd. (Filmed July 5, 1897, by Edison Company)
Police are seen climbing aboard a horse-drawn police wagon. It appears to carry as many as a dozen of them as it drives away. (Filmed by Edison Company, 1897)
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