First scene shows a line of new Ford V8 sedan cars parked side by side along the edge of a highway. The closest car displays a sign reading: "Ford, V8 Detroit Police Department." A spokesperson stands in front of the car and delivers some remarks. Next scene shows a white car parked next to the line of police cars, with a large sign on its roof and writing on its door. (The writing is difficult to decipher.) Individual Police officers are then seen standing next to each of the new Ford V8 automobiles, which are lined up along the highway edge, almost out of sight. Then the Police officers begin to drive the cars away, one at a time, successively, in a single file motorcade. Ford Company executives and Detroit city officials pose for a group picture. Harry Mack, Ford's Dearborn branch sales manager, is standing to the left of a uniformed Police officer (who may be James E. McCarty). Mack converses with Police Commissioner John P. Smith to his left. Closeups of segments of the group. Views of the officials dispersing and some more closeups. Finally, the new cars leave in a "parade" of sorts, led by motorcycle police. Traffic is stopped for them as they drive away from the photo site.
Wide shot of African-American WAC soldiers assembled on field for review. The women soldiers hold an American flag before them. General John C.H. Lee emerges from his car and shakes hands with other officers before ascending to a platform to review. Major Charity Adams, leader of the battalion, shakes hands with officers as well and then stands in front of platform to review. View of officers, including WACS from other battalions. (World War II period)
External view of the St. Louis Coliseum (601 Jefferson Ave, St. Louis, MO 63103, USA) in St. Louis, MO. USA. This is during the 1916 Democratic Convention. Sign on building reads, "Vote for Jim Houchin primary August." Advance scouts of the National Committee are seen. Left to right, Fred C. Robertson, Norman Mack, Hugh Wallace, and Colonel John Martin.
Image of Yuri Andropov, the sixth paramount leader of the Soviet Union during the Cold War. A US Air Force C5-A Galaxy lands in an airbase. Air man signals to the aircraft. A BGM-109G Ground Launched Cruise Missile is unloaded from the C5-A Galaxy’s front. Close up to a soldier’s arm badge, a airborne paratrooper insignia. The BGM-109G Ground Launched Cruise Missile slowly drives to a hangar. Colonel John Bacs, 501st Tactical Missile Wing, speaks about the NATO operational capability in Europe of the BGM-109G Ground Launched Cruise Missile on schedule at Royal Air Force Greenham Common. Soldiers working on BGM-109G Ground Launched Cruise Missile in a hanger. A soldier, wearing glasses, drives a BGM-109G Ground Launched Cruise Missile to a launch site. Sergeant Ginnie Baird speaks about the mobility of the BGM-109G Ground Launched Cruise Missile. Two camouflaged soldiers set up a pole and net. A net partly covering a BGM-109G Ground Launched Cruise Missile in the forest as a camouflage. Senior Airman Thomas Snell speaks about the training and exchange of best practices with the Royal Air Force. A Royal Air Force soldier adjusts a Ground Surveillance Radar (GSR) and asks about its range with an African-American Air Force soldier, wearing sunglasses.
Aerial view of Abilene, Texas and a prominent building, The Enterprise, 500 Chestnut St, Abilene, TX 79602, United States. Fred Lee Hughes speaks about living in Abilene and Abilene’s relationship with the United States Air Force. Aerial view of Dyess Airforce Base, Texas. Front view of a vehicle slowing down to a checkpoint with a United States guard. A sign reads “Dyess AFB and Abilene Community welcome the B-1B in 2 Days”. Aerial view of Texas farmlands. Wheat bows gently from the wind in the foreground as combine harvests wheat. Close up of a Green John Deere Combine harvesting wheat. Trucks line up at concrete grain silos. Railroad hopper car pulling up to grain silos. Man crosses gap between two railroad grain hopper cars. Men walking on hopper cars open roof doors to receive grain and position grain shoot over hopper door. A man crouches as he harvests potatoes from a field. Fred Lee Hughes speaks about the people of Abilene. Aerial view of Abilene’s outskirts and the Hardy Grissom Ranch east of Abilene. View of large corral with many head of cattle. Phil Guitar, owner operator of the Grissom Ranch, speaks about the community having a good relationship with Dyess Airforce Base. Fred Lee Hughes speaks about the feelings of Abilene residents of the impending arrival of the B-1B, and notes that the community is anxious to get the B-1 bomber and associated combat crew training squadron.
A phonograph turntable tone arm with Stanton cartridge rotating on a vinyl record. Lit “ON AIR” pans to Abilene's KEAN-FM 105.1 DJ team Bobby and Bonnie, (possibly John Howard Blackwell and Linda Morgan, one of several Bobby and Bonnie teams.) Sylvia (a country pop singer)’s poster on the wall behind "Bobby" as he announces the arrival of the Rockwell B1-B bomber aircraft to Dyess Airforce Base. DJ "Bonnie" wearing headphones and in before a microphone notes that the radio station wants to send out a "big Texas welcome" to the families arriving at the base as part of the B1 Lancer program. Phonograph turntable tone arm and cartridge lowering to rotating record on as a song begins to play. View of the nose of a B-1 bomber. The B-1 tail from below. A parade crowd gathered on a street adorned with American flags watches cowgirls carrying flags while riding white horses in front of a fire truck. A dilapidated wooden windmill in front of an American flag. A couple wearing cream-colored cowboy hats. A United States Air Force mechanic, wearing a baseball cap, checks the engine of the B-1 bomber. View of the B-1B from under its right wing. A man, wearing a brown cowboy hat, grills meat on a barbecue grill. A man wearing a white cowboy hat and red apron stirs a stew in a pot. Men in cowboy hats slice meat and put hamburger patties on a grill. People enjoying an outdoor barbecue meal together. Cowboys carrying USA and Texas flags ride horses in a parade. United States B1-B bomber flies in the sky. Closeup of windmill spinning. Sunset view of a pumpjack in an oil well pumping. A B-1B bomber parked at sunset.
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