President Dwight D Eisenhower with his family in Georgia, United States. He celebrates the birthday of his wife Mamie Eisenhower with his grandson David, grand daughter and other family members.
Outstanding leaders and pioneers of the motion picture industry are honored by Look magazine in New York City, United States. Look Magazine publisher Vernon C. Myers stands with a group of motion picture industry pioneers. He honors the contributions of the group to the motion picture industry. Vernon Myers presents a "Look Applauds Scroll" to the men. The honorees include Jack Cohn, President of the pioneers, N.J. Blumberg (Nathan J. Blumberg), pioneer of the year and Chairman of board of Universal Pictures; Ned E. Depinet, former President of RKO. Myers also presents the men a current issue of the Look Magazine, dated December 2, 1952, which contains a feature article on the honored men. They shake hands.
The freighter SS Yorkmar, owned by the Bethlehem Steel Company, and operated by the Calmar Line, is aground on an open beach north of Grays Harbor, Washington State, United States. A ship's officer and some members of the crew are seen briefly,on the shore. A Coast Guard helicopter hovers over her stern while carrying a line out to the ship from the shore. Crew members are seen standing in the water near the Yorkmar,and pulling on a line from the ship to the shore. Others climb a rope ladder up the side of the Yorkmar. The crew remains with the ship awaiting tide to refloat her. (Note: The SS Yorkmar, seen here, should not be confused with a ship of the same name that was torpedoed in 1943. This ship was originally a Liberty Ship, launched in 1944, and named the "Walter Kidde." After the war, she was operated by Calmar SS Corporation of New York and renamed the "Yorkmar," in 1947.)
The U.S. Navy films and records the voices of service men's loved ones in California. They conduct a program to bring Christmas cheer to American soldiers far from their homes and families. People arrive at the program. Women with their children. Cameras seen recording a family with a woman and her children on the stage, to send to the husband and father overseas. A clown is on stage behind the family to entertain the children, and a Christmas tree is beside them.
First public films showing the U.S. Navy Lockheed XFV experimental vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft. It is seen sitting sideways, on wheels, although it is intended to take off and land vertically, from a tail down position. Next the Convair XFY "Pogo" VTOL aircraft is shown. Convair techinician makes some adjustments to it. The XFY is slowly tilted to a tail down position. Its cockpit canopy is slowly opened and a pilot climbs aboard. Animated film shows image of a VTOL aircraft taking off and landing,vertically, from the deck of a freighter ship. Another view of the Convair XFY standing on its tail.
Scientists at the University of California in United States. They discuss a document. 'Bevatron', the atom smasher aids scientists in probing the fundamental mysteries of the universe.
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