Operation Skywatch in the United States. Man looks out through window of building at 'Ground Observer Post'. Old man looks up at sky. Woman looks into sky. Farmer outside barn feeds pigs. Woman watches sky. Women in Ground Observer tower look into sky. Young boy looks into sky with binoculars. Two women standing outside Ground observer shack. Two girls standing on porch outside Ground observer shack. Aircraft in flight. One girl writing on clipboard enters building. Girl hands report on clipboard to man at desk. Man picks up phone and reads report. Two women stand by door of Ground observer corps shack. Two men scan sky from post in Ground observer corps shack. Poster reads ' Plotting time delay'. Woman moves aircraft models on plotting board. Man scans sky. Aircraft in flight. Man holds clipboard. He stands in front of house and talks to boy. Boy talks on telephone at window. Man and woman seated at recording center. They wear head phones. People at controls. Man talks on phone. Men seated at chair get up and run outside as the siren rings. They get in the aircraft parked at airfield. Signal man directs the take off. Aircraft takes off. United States Air Force General Nathan Farragut Twining seated at desk. He speaks.
Operation Skywatch in the United States. Two Air Force enlisted men play ping pong in recreation room. Barber gives haircut to Air Force enlisted man. Enlisted man buys supplies at shop. Purchaser at shop.
Lifestyle of British people in early 1950s. Group of British coal miners. Several British businessmen. British residential neighborhoods post World War 2 both in cities and in outlying neighborhoods. British working men in hats and coats walking to or from work. Well-to-do neighborhood. Factory workers producing heavy equipment. British Automobile manufacturing factory with workers assembling cars. A Bentley automobile being loaded on a ship. Two U.S. Airmen sightseeing in London view traffic on streets with cars and lorries, double-decker buses, and pedestrians. View of diverse British workers, both men and women, walking on a bridge to or from work as double decker buses and other vehicles pass by on the road.
Home life of British steel worker. The man is gardening. His wife comes out of their house and talks to him. The man and woman enter the house. The man seated with his family at dinner. A photograph of the man's nephew, who is a soldier in Malaya. British soldiers in Malaya line up and receive their pay at a pay window. U.S. airmen, stationed in Britain, receiving their pay in pounds, Sterling. U.S. soldiers shopping in the UK.
In a training film for American airmen in the early 1950s, actor Larry Hagman plays role of a U.S. Airman being entertained as guest in a British home, where differences in daily life are discussed. British family seated in living room and having tea with the American military airman, and tending a fireplace. Examples of notable British manufacturing. A British Canberra jet bomber taking off. A class A4 streamlined 4-6-2 British steam locomotive, bearing British Railways number 60027 (Named Kingfisher and built at Doncaster Works). Pistons moving on large British marine engine. Fabric printing and manufacture.
British steel worker walks to work on Bashley Road, North Acton, London. Views of steel mills in Midlands. A ship under construction in Glasgow, Scotland. Wide, elevated view of city streets and buildings of Edinburgh, Scotland. Steel worker visits a Pub after the day's work. Men in the Mother Shipton Pub (possibly 1 Malden Road, Kentish Town, London NW5). Patrons drink beer and play darts. Bartender pours a cask ale from a tap. U.S. Air Force Non-Commissioned Officers seated at a table in the pub. One of them asks dart players if he can try. They assent and he throws several darts fairly skillfully, meeting with their approval. These scenes are followed by an Instructive narrative about the British political system accompanied by illustrated diagrams. Scenes include the floor of the House of Commons during session.
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