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Consumer uses of electric power; Coal power plants, hydroelectric dams, high tension towers, power plant controls.

Numerous 1960s fashions and decor in the United States. CU autoclave sterilizer in use. Girl using washing machine. POV girl opens refrigerator door to grab food. Girl in room with her Raggedy Ann doll. Girl brushing her hair. Teenage girl watching TV (television) while eating popcorn. Futuristic furniture of 1960s. Teenage girl talking on the phone with camera pan to radio. Woman decorates a modern white Christmas tree. Woman secretary typing on an IBM Selectric typewriter with large IBM reel to reel drive running in background. Leslie Franzos...woman housewife frying eggs in an electric pan while checking oven in background. . Hair dryer shows glowing coils while woman manicures her finger nails. Meat on electric shish kabob machine. Blender in foreground as woman serves drinks to cocktail party. Closeup of lights, dials, and knobs on power plant control panel. External views coal fired power plants. High tension electric towers. External view nuclear power plant. Animated view of an atom. Kite with Thomas Edison bust. Model steam engine running to power a light bulb. Woman dressed in period clothing demonstrates power usage through time. Hydroelectric dams running. Pieces of coal close up. Close up of refined oil. Steam at power plant turning a turbine. MS high power electric tower. White River Junction train station. Aerial view of Providence, Rhode Island. High tension power lines and tower. Close up view of dials and controls for power plant. Animated atom superimposed on a microscope. Woman dances while looking through microscope.

Location: Connecticut USA
Date: 1966
Duration: 5 min 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023820
Presentation about planned Connecticut Yankee Atomic Power plant in 1966; various uses of electric power.

Men speaking about a planned new nuclear power plant from Connecticut Yankee Atomic Power Company. They talk about safety and security of environment and other issues related to the plant. Model of the power plant is shown and color scheme of buildings in the Haddam Neck project is discussed. Map of United States showing location of power plant at Haddam Neck, Connecticut. Next segment shows various potential uses of electric power that will be generated by the power plant: Skiers ride a chairlift at a Vermont ski area. Skiers at top of mountain put on skis and prepare to ski on the snow covered mountain. A farmer milking a cow with an electric milking machine. Students in a school classroom in New Hampshire, with a male teacher seen assisting a young student. A man seated in a red leather chair in front of a stone fireplace in a hunting lodge somewhere in New England. View of stadium lights and elevated wide view of Fenway Park baseball stadium in Massachusetts, home of the Boston Red Sox. View of colored stage lights at Jazz festival in Rhode Island and view of jazz musicians playing together at the festival (presumably Newport Jazz Festival), including Dizzy Gillespie on trumpet. A trio plays bass, trumpet, and saxophone. Aerial view of lights illuminating runway and approach at an airport in Connecticut. View of workers in heavy industry and machine parts in factories. Exterior view of Sikorsky Aircraft headquarters building, with sign" Sikorsky Aircraft, Division of United Aircraft Corporation." A Sikorsky S-62 helicopter is seen lifting off from a landing site in front of the building.

Location: Connecticut USA
Date: 1966
Duration: 2 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023822
German rocket developments during 1930s

A man holds two rockets. The one shown on the left with the white nose is a double rocket. (These were demonstrated for the Navy at Meppen.) Flag flying over a cabin (named "Arenshorst," by Reinhard Tiling) as rocket firing trials get underway on the island of Wangerooge in the North Sea,during December 1930. Reinhard Tiling emergea from the cabin, carrying a long slender rocket . His assistant Angela Buddenboehmer, and another man (possibly Richard Tiling) follow him across the sand dunes. Two photographers are present and several other men. Tiling inserts the rocket into a launch frame already set up. The team elevates the launcher and Tiling makes some adjustment. At a signal from Tiling, Angela Buddenboehmer pushes a plunger on the ignition control box and the rocket fires and rises. Reinhard Tiling, Buddenboehmer, and Richard Tiling watch it in the sky. Several more launches are shown. Pictures of rocket projectile missiles being launched at Dummersee on April 15, 1931, and of larger missiles at later times.

Location: Germany
Date: 1931
Duration: 3 min 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675024391
Tests of the Vierstabers, 4-nozzle rockets in Germany

Several views of preparations for the 10th test of a four nozzle (Vierstaber) rocket at Klaus Riedel's farm in Germany. Refueling the rocket. A young man standing with pieces of the rocket that exploded during the test. Change to another test, the first test of the Vierstabers rockets,on Lindwerder Island in Lake Tegel, Berlin, on July 14, 1933. The rocket set up for launch and being refueled. Lake Tegel in background. People gathered around it during refueling. Dense clouds of condensation around the rocket. The rocket is launched and rises high into the sky before falling into the lake with a splash. View of the rocket upside down in shallow waters of the lake.

Location: Berlin Germany
Date: 1933, July 14
Duration: 2 min 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675024411
Segment of U.S. Information Agency film about its so-called "Operation Vagabond."

Film about USIA "Operation Vagabond," employing Coast Guard Cutter (USCGC Courier WAGR-410). View of the "Courier," at sea. It is bristling with antennas, and displaying numerous flags, permitting it to operate in many territorial waters. View from her deck to land on the Island of Rhodes in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. View of sign over a ship's hatch, reading,"Relay Broadcast Receiving Room." Inside, two crew members are seen operating equipment that instantaneously re-transmits Voice of America broadcasts. A sign "On Air," is illuminated in the compartment. Operators seen adjusting various pieces of broadcast equipment. Back on deck, camera focuses on a helium-filled balloon, holding the ship's transmission antenna, aloft. View from another ship, of the "Courier," and the helium balloon, in the distance. Illustrated chart shows fractions of VOA listeners behind the "Iron Curtain," and in mainland China. Cartoon illustrating penalties for VOA listeners. Polish escapee, interpreter, Jan Hajdukiewicz, is seen broadcasting on VOA microphone. He fled the Communist delegation during Korean truce talks at Panmunjom.

Location: Greece
Date: 1954
Duration: 2 min 18 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675024529
Motorcade carries Astronaut Scott Carpenter and his wife from Patrick Air Force Base to Cape Canaveral in Florida.

Following his return to Patrick Air Force Base, from Grand Turk Island, at the conclusion of the Mercury-Atlas 7 mission, a motorcade honoring Astronaut Scott Carpenter and his wife, Florence, proceeds from Patrick Air Force Base to Cape Canaveral in Florida. The car carrying Lieutenant Commander Scott Carpenter and his wife is surrounded by accompanying motorcycle policemen. Crowds line the streets to watch the motorcade. People take photographs of the Carpenters and he waves to them.

Location: Cape Canaveral Florida USA
Date: 1962, May 27
Duration: 2 min 25 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675024603
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