A NASA Gemini spacecraft in orbit. Views of earth from window of a Gemini XII spacecraft in space as it reenters earth's atmosphere from orbit carrying astronauts Lovell and Aldrin back to earth. Hot particles burn off the oblative heat shield of the spacecraft. Short montage of Gemini entry images. Momentary view of striped parachute billowing above, as seen from inside a spacecraft. The Gemini spacecraft seen from a helicopter, as it descends over water during recovery. The spacecraft splashing down and its parachute collapsing in the water. Recovery personnel parachuting from a helicopter, which also drops a life raft and supplies, close to the floating space capsule. Astronauts being helped into rafts and then hauled up into the recovery helicopter. A Titan II launch vehicle taking off from Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
Launch of a Titan IIIE equipped with Titan Centaur 7 with Voyager 2 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, United States. Technicians talk on service tower and then leave after some time. Personnel and civilians await launch near the cars parked. Trees and water in the foreground. The rocket ignites and lifts off. The rocket being tracked in clouds. Personnel view launch. A truck leaves premises. Personnel leave after the launch
Launch of a Titan IIIE equipped with Titan Centaur 7 with Voyager 2 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, United States. Mission control operation seen with interior of the Vertical Integration Building Firing Room. Technicians Walter Kapryan and personnel at communication and control consoles. Technicians discuss. View of the panel. Technicians talk on powered head phones and view monitors.
Normal and emergency operating characteristics of United States Army Air Force Lockheed P-38 Lightning aircraft in the United States. The control panel of an aircraft. A P-38 Lightning aircraft taxis and takes off. Gauges on the control panel of the aircraft. The landing gear of the aircraft is lowered. United States Naval Reserve Ensign Charles E. Brannon climbs on an aircraft. Aviators Tom Kennedy, Jimmy Mather and Avery Black get into the cockpit of an aircraft. American aviator Milo Garrett Burcham stands in front of the aircraft. Burcham closes the hatch and the window of the aircraft. Animation depicts air flow when a window is closed and opened. He operates switches for drop tanks of the aircraft. The aircraft at a field. He operates a booster pump switch. Brakes of the aircraft held to maintain the speed of the propellers at 3000 revolutions per minute. The aircraft taxis and takes off. A gauge shows speed. Men in a control tower. The aircraft takes off. Animation depicts the flight path with zero flaps and 50% flaps.
Statues of Bolivar and of Artigas. The statue of Benito Juarez in Washington DC with the Watergate buildings behind. The statue of Winston Churchill at the British Embassy in Washington DC. Brief view of Winston Churchill waving to a ship and then seen in a car touring ruins of London following a German Blitz attack in World War 2. People wave to Churchill. Winston Churchill in a car waves back to them. A close up of Churchill. Pilots walk towards the aircraft parked at a field. Explosion blast of swastika at Zeppelinfeld Nazi Party Grounds at end of World War 2. British soldiers greet Churchill during World War 2 as he rides by on an armored car beside a machine gun, tips his hat and waves to soldiers. A French dignitary (appears to be President Rene Coty?) greeting and presenting an award to Churchill. Churchill waves to onlookers from a boat passing under a bridge. Churchill looks out of a window. African American woman sits on a park bench in Washington DC. A close up of a pigeon. An African American man reads a newspaper. The statue of Henry Longfellow at Connecticut Avenue. The statue of Taras Shevchenko. Aerial view of Kennedy Center in background and grounds of Teddy Roosevelt Island Park. A woman and a dog walk in the park. A branch of a tree. The statue of Theodore Roosevelt at the park and the trees in the park. Footage of Theodore Roosevelt speaking to people. View from Virginia side of Potomac River looking at Georgetown University and, beyond, at the Washington National Cathedral. The tomb of Woodrow Wilson at the National Cathedral. A close up of stained glass windows and architecture in Washington National Cathedral. View of Woodrow Wilson wearing a top hat and speaking to the people. A montage of scenes from World War 1. People crowd on a street in jubilant celebration for the Armistice Day in World War 1. Woodrow Wilson in a car tipping his hat to a parade crowd.
A film based on events held in different nations prior to the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 16, 1962 when the United States and the Soviet Union confronted each other with nuclear destruction. A Columbus Day Parade in the United States prior to the Cuban Missile Crisis shows girls dancing along a street and a band playing. A crowd lining up a street. Flags of the U.S. held by marching men. A crowd cheers at a baseball game between the Yankees and the San Francisco Giants. A little girl in calipers becomes the poster girl for March of Dimes (polio charity). The First Lady of the United States Jackie Kennedy with children of foreign diplomats. Fireworks in Uganda celebrating independence. A torchlight vigil held in Vatican.
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