Nighttime views of neon light illuminated attractions, Casinos in Las Vegas: Golden Nugget Gambling Hall, Binion's Horseshoe Casino, Four Queens and Fremont Casino. Visitors walking the sidewalks of the town during the mid 1970s.
View from high building in the early morning, and then again at evening, of attractions in Las Vegas: Views of Dunes, Holiday Casino, Flamingo, Aladdin (theater for performing arts, with Bing Crosby featured), MGM Grand Hotel, Tropicana (Folies Bergere 76), Paradise Hotel and Casino. Neon signs of various hotels and casinos in the mid 1970s.
Pedestrians cross a road in downtown Las Vegas at night. Various images of neon signsmontage over four men looking around and pointing. Men playing golf at a golf course. Tired young men resting inside their motel room. Man looks at centerfold of girly magazine. Tired young men leaving motel room to drive home. Men get into a blue 1967 Volkswagen Squareback station wagon. Tired driver checks his watch before driving. A tire blowout on Volkswagen Squareback station wagon while driving on desert highway.
Man with Geiger counter taking readings about a jeep during Project Desert Rock in Nevada. Marines using mine detectors. Mountains in background. Vehicles in cleared area. Scenes of Marines. Mountains in background. Looking into valley. Lake in valley, in Nevada. Large column of white smoke.
Major catastophe events of the year 1952. Views of destruction on the ground in Elizabeth, New Jersey, after American Airlines flight 6780, a Convair 240, crashed into a house at Williamson and South Streets on January 22, 1952. Burned wreckage and devastation seen at the crash site in Elizabeth following the crash and subsequent explosions damaging or destroying multipole houses in the 600 block of Williamson Street. In the first few seconds of the clip, the Battin High School for Girls is seen in the background. The school was adjacent to the crash but not hit. Narrator also describes the crash of an Army transport plane in California which killed 86 soldiers, but no images of that crash are shown. Next scenes shift to England, on September 6, 1952, as a de Havilland DH.110 jet aircraft, piloted by John Derry, explodes in midair after achieving Mach 1 and then beginning a left bank and climb at 450 knots during the 1952 Farnborough Airshow. Spectators at the British air show are seen on the ground in the area below the explosion and where debris rained down on the crowd causing deaths and injuries. Engines from the blown-up DH.110 plane (prototype, ID WG236) are seen hurtling through the sky toward Observation Hill immediately after the mid-air explosion. Scenes show crowd working to tend to the wounded and shocked families and children crying.
Cowboys on horses gather on a street outside a building in Las Vegas, New Mexico. Vehicles parked outside the building. Trees in the background. People watch them. Cowboys parade in the ground. Spectators watch them. Cowboys on horses stand in a line on the ground. They display rodeo feats in which they do bronco riding. Cowboys compete in a running race on foot. Cowboys dancing together, some in pairs and some by themselves.
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