From a short documentary film entitled, "Neptune's Realm" depicting a shellback initiation ceremony aboard the USS Indianapolis in November 1936. In this clip, slates provide background on the ceremony. Then there are scenes of the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) in New York. The ship leaves the dock with Statue of Liberty in the background. Kingfisher floatplanes visible on the ship's deck. The ship is decorated with flags, on its way to pick up President Franklin Roosevelt in South Carolina before proceeding to South America. A fleet of ships underway. Some scenes from a shellback initiation. A Polliwog looks through binoculars. Sailors dressed in costumes act during the Shellback ceremony.
A Japanese graduate student studies American literature at Indiana University (INDIANA UNIVERSITY BLOOMINGTON 107 S. Indiana Avenue Bloomington, IN 47405-7000). The Japanese student reads in his dormitory room. English literature books from writers such as Walt Whitman and Mark Twain are stacked in front on his desk. Three American students engage in an informal discussion. Japanese student tried to join conversation. American student shrugs. Japanese student sits outdoors to think. Japanese student meets his faculty advisor, an American university professor. The two men talk while walking. The American professor invites the student for dinner at his home. The professor, his family, and the Japanese student talk while they have dinner and coffee 1951. The professor’s young granddaughter eating ice cream. The professor and the Japanese student sit together for coffee. Young girl hugs the Japanese student.
President Dwight D Eisenhower and Premier Nikita Khrushchev shake hands in the White House during Khrushchev's visit in America, soon after recent Soviet advances in the "space race." Closeup images of the moon, and of images of far side of the moon recorded by Soviets, and also brief Soviet Russian science fiction animated scenes depicting space ships traveling toward the moon, and another space ship vessel in orbit near the moon. In United States two monkeys are shown, named Able and Baker who were part of rocket testing before human flights took place. View of a monkey strapped into a Jupiter rocket and launch is shown of a Jupiter rocket with the monkeys for their space flight. Seven astronauts of the Project Mercury program are shown in training in a weightless, or zero gravity chamber.
Male students chatting inside a dorm at Indiana University (INDIANA UNIVERSITY BLOOMINGTON 107 S. Indiana Avenue Bloomington, IN 47405-7000 Phone: 812-855-4848). A Japanese graduate student checks a camera film. The Japanese student shows his film to his friend. Japanese student with his American roommate at a vegetable farm. American roommate shows the Japanese student his hand tractor. An American Midwest rural family of a couple and their children having a lunch or dinner meal at a dining room table with a Japanese student. The father talks to their foreign guest. Japanese student eating fried chicken. The family and their guest sit in the living room and watch a television broadcast of a United Nations meeting. View of the console television set they are watching. The men and women discussing the television program.
Indiana University students in a classroom. Japanese student and his friends take a trip to Mark Twain's home near Mississippi river. Three students stop at a lake for a swim. Three students in a black convertible car. Billboard painted 'Hannibal' at the side of road, at Hannibal Missouri. The three students stop at the boyhood home of American author Mark Twain. Old lady at the home shows the three students a book 'The Extraordinary Twins' by Rundonhead Wilson. Students in a university class room have a discussion with professor. View of Student Building clock tower at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. Students in front of the Student Building, and students beside a wood panel station wagon car.
U.S. Navy ship USS Indiana (BB-1) at the Dry Tortugas islands, west of Key West, Florida in the Gulf of Mexico during the Spanish- American War. The USS Indiana is seen from a moving yacht. The USS Indiana lies at anchor taking on coal. Marines and sailors are seen on the decks. Workers hustling “King coal” into the battleship, with coal passers running back and forth on the deck.
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